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NPR (blog)Reports: US Captures Al-Qaida Leader In Libya RaidNPR (blog)An al-Qaida leader indicted in the United States for coordinated 1998 attacks on two U.S. embassies in East Africa was captured on Saturday in a daytime military raid in Libya, according to several published and broadcast reports. The suspect, known as ...

Business InsiderA Canadian Journalist Dreams Of The Day When Her Country Final Merges With ...Business InsiderIn the dystopian future imagined by Canadian journalist Diane Francis, Russia owns all of Canada's oil and the Chinese own all its ports. Canada is rendered a colony of the two non-Western superpowers, while the US is left out in the cold, surrounded ...

Foreign Policy (blog)FP Passport: Good News: The United States Still Isn't a Failed StateForeign Policy (blog)Yes, the U.S. government shutdown is equal parts embarrassing and infuriating. Yes, it is putting the kibosh on services as basic as food programs and flu shots. But no, the United States is still not a failed state, much as many people seem to be ...

Voltaire NetworkThe United States Feared No MoreVoltaire NetworkWhile the General Assembly was discussing the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is another matter altogether that concerned the diplomats: are the United States still the superpower they have claimed to be since the demise ...

New York TimesIran Frees Political Prisoners on Eve of President's Visit to USNew York TimesTEHRAN — On the eve of a visit by Iran's moderate president, Hassan Rouhani, to the United States, the Iranian authorities on Wednesday unexpectedly freed 11 of Iran's most prominent political prisoners, including Nasrin Sotoudeh, a human rights lawyer.

AdweekThe United States of Ad Agencies See our picks for the top shop in each stateAdweekEvery state has "that agency." The one you can't help but admire, or envy. The one where you'd like to work—or if you're lucky, where you do work. The one that's hard to beat. The one that critics moan is overrated. The one that, more often than not ...

New York TimesVeteran Diplomat Fond of Cigars, Whiskey and Outfoxing USNew York TimesMOSCOW — Secretary of State John Kerry had just made an offhand remark about how President Bashar al-Assad of Syria could avoid a military strike — and now Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia's hard-charging foreign minister, was on the phone.