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Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell)
Bio: Deputy editor, POLITICO magazine. Mostly international, some politics. RT ≠ endorsement. Buy my book! http://t.co/xNNxrkY3Lq | bhounshell[at]politico
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Michael Hastings Dead at 33 | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
26 mentions — 21 hours ago
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Michael Hastings, 'Rolling Stone' Contributor, Dead at 33The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los AngelesMichael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned. He was 33.Hastings' ...
Could fracking make the Persian Gulf irrelevant?
salon.com
3 mentions — 3 weeks ago
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Topics:GlobalPost,Persian Gulf,Belgium,Saudi Arabia,Middle East, Business News, Politics News Since November, the United States has replaced Saudi Arabia as the world’s biggest producer of crude oil. It had already overtaken Russia as the leading producer of natural gas.The emergence of the United States as a global energy superpower has ...
Lakes state threatens to "crucify" critical journalists and activists
Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
2 mentions — 2 months ago
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April 23, 2013 (RUMBEK) - "Those who are writing negatively about this state government will be crucified like Jesus Christ if we capture them", Lakes state’s deputy governor, Mabor Achol Kuer, said on Sunday.Politics is Lakes state were thrown in turmoil earlier this year when South Sudan’s elected ...
Off-duty US navy sailor thwarts Dubai rape attempt with leg stranglehold - The National
The National
3 mentions — 2 months ago
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DUBAI // A bus driver who tried to rape a passenger at knifepoint chose the wrong victim, a court heard yesterday.The woman, an off-duty US navy sailor, knocked the knife from his grasp, broke it in two, bit his hand, wrestled him to the ground and put him ...
Displaced - By Joshua Foust
Foreign Policy
2 mentions — 2 months ago
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Early reports suggest that the two suspected Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, are ethnically Chechen. Media reports suggest their family lived in Chechnya in the 1990s and later moved to neighboring Dagestan and then Kyrgyzstan. The Tsarnaevs moved to the United States about a decade ago,
9 questions about Chechnya and Dagestan you were too embarrassed to ask
washingtonpost.com
4 mentions — 2 months ago
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Although information is still emerging about their exact connections to Russian regions of Chechnya and Dagestan, early reporting suggests that Boston marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev may be of Chechen origin and may have grown up partially in Dagestan. The regions are sometimes described as ...
Ex-Google China Head With 30 Million Followers Barred From Weibo
Bloomberg
4 mentions — 4 months ago
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By Bloomberg News -2013-02-18T06:23:09ZLee Kai-fu, the former head of Google Inc.’s China division, said he was banned for three days from posting on local micro-blogging sites, where he has more than 30 million followers. The ban applies to Sina Corp.’s Weibo and a similar service run by Tencent ...
In modern Japan, being a ninja is no way to make a living
Marketplace.org
2 mentions — 5 months ago
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The ninja is one of Japan's oldest and most mysterious professions. In the 15th century, young men were hired by samurai or feudal lords to spy, sabotage, and kill.But today there are only a few true modern ninja left, they are grand masters who hold the secrets of ...