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Mohammed Assaf has become so popular even local politicians are using him to try to gin up support.
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A Pakistani-American man is accused of being a terrorist. In Pakistan.
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In a major speech at the Brandenburg Gate, the president called for a reduction in nuclear weapons.
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PRISM has sparked outrage in the surveillance-averse nation.
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The ordeal of Yehia Ghanem, who was convicted in Egypt's notorious NGO trial.
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Is the country turning into a failed state?
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Light Warlpiri in Northern Australia blends English with an indigenous tongue.
Rare testimony about unspeakable rape and torture in Syrian government prisons.
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After weeks of violent clashes, a Turkish artist tries a motionless form of resistance -- and starts a movement.
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There's a big disparity between spending on basic infrastructure and spending on the World Cup.
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Russia, China, the U.K., France, and the U.S. all have different interests when it comes to the war-torn nation.
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Britain was caught reading foreign diplomats' emails during the 2009 G20, but it's not the first time a government has snooped on its allies.
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Obama's move to arm the rebels is angering both sides of the intervention debate.
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Putin's biggest critic talks about the troubles facing the Sochi Winter Olympics.
The new president is technically a "moderate," but in Iran, that doesn't mean much.
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The far-ranging implications of the president's decision to provide arms to anti-Assad rebels
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How regimes take control of official media channels and push activists onto the Internet.
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We need to dismantle Assad's air capability to really give the opposition a leg up.
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A new UN report comes amid staggering casualty numbers and Obama's confirmation that the regime has used chemical weapons.
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It's too early to feel optimistic that the regime will reform itself.
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The crisis underscores the difficulty of reconciling humanitarian ideals with geopolitical concerns.
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