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FPI Afternoon Round-Up: December 29, 2009

Iran's democrats have "staying power"

Khamenei banking on brute force

Iran getting uranium from Kazakhstan

Afghan parliament elections scheduled for spring

Can China really become a superpower?

With this kind of corruption?

Russia leasing India nuclear sub

Russia's "values gap"

Did Napolitano insult al Qaeda?
FPI Afternoon Round-Up: December 28, 2009

Stephen Hayes: time for regime change in Iran

Obama stymied by Iranian hard line

Iran's dangerous wish list

Democracy promotion in police states

Sarkozy's over Obama

Pakistan won't fight Haqqani network

Yemen arrests 29 al Qaeda suspects

The failure of Obama's outreach

Flight 253 plan, our "worst nightmare"
FPI Afternoon Round-Up: December 18, 2009

Dick Thornburgh on Liu Xiaobo

"Iranian Cyber Army" attacks Twitter

Karzai to announce new Cabinet

Pakistan's Zardari under pressure

North Koreans hack South Korea defense plan?

Dutch release pirates with no country willing to prosecute

Colombian rebel groups unite against government

Chirac to face more corruption charges
FPI Afternoon Round-Up: December 17, 2009

Petraeus: Ahmadinejad pushing Arabs to side with U.S.

The tip of Iran's nuclear iceberg

Obama in a better position to create sanctions regime

Don't forget the civilian surge

Islamabad must control tribal areas

Iraqi insurgents hack U.S. drones

Qaeda members stopped in Yemen

More trouble to come in Lebanon

Greece's private sector rails against government
FPI Afternoon Round-Up: December 16, 2009

Ellen Bork: Bearing witness won't do

Iran's advanced missile test

Does Karzai get it?

Does Zardari?

Iraq cracks down on Iranian dissidents

An Iraqi oil revolution?

John Bolton on "universal jurisdiction"

Thomas Friedman on the "virtual Afghanistan"

Thailand steps up on North Korea
FPI Afternoon Round-Up: December 15, 2009

In Iran, the "smoking gun's trigger"

Amir Taheri: Iran reached "threshold"

Saakashvili on Georgia's stake in Afghanistan

Will American engagement undermine democracy in Lebanon?

China's suffering deportees

Japan's "postmodernist ennui"

North Korea executes 12 rioters

U.S. to sell arms toTaiwan

The Turkey-Syria honeymoon
FPI Afternoon Round-Up: December 14, 2009

Iranian enrichment concession falls short

Ros-Lehtinen on "Tehran's greatest feat"

Taheri: Europe taking lead on Iran

But not doing enough in Afghanistan

Reinforcements arrive this week

Pakistan still not taking on Haqqani

No more easy money in Dubai

Kurdish MPs resign from Turkish Parliament

Mugabe to renew terror campaign?
FPI Afternoon Round-Up: December 11, 2009

Jamie Fly on Obama's contradictory speech

Abe Greenwald on Obama and evil

"NATO has done well" in Afghanistan

Gates: "significant additional sanction" for Iran

EU: ditto

Labor rising in Egypt

The conundrum of investing in Iraq

Is Obama ignoring Iraq?

U.S. and Japan must face China question
FPI Afternoon Round-Up: December 10, 2009

Will the U.S. postpone Afghan elections?

Zardari promises a moderate, democratic Pakistan

Amir Taheri on the evoluting of Iran's protests

Geneive Abdo: circle closing around Ahmadinejad

Gates and Maliki cancel meeting

China building harsher security state

North Koreans speaking out against government

12th failure for Russian missile

A bad year for human rights
FPI Afternoon Round-Up: December 9, 2009

McChrystal vows change in Afghanistan

Afghan Army recruitment rising

A military coup in Pakistan?

Time to engage Pakistan's tribes

Ahmadinejad and the Hidden Imam

Iranian students call regime fascist

China has no international brand

Beijing want to keep Pyongyang afloat

Islamist peace deal in Philippines

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