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Facing Taliban threats, Afghan interpreters wait for U.S. visas Oct 25th 2012, 10:50 KABUL — Of the more than 5,700 Afghans who have applied for U.S. visas under a special program tailored for those who have supported the American war effort, just 32 have been approved, the State Department says, leaving the rest in limbo as foreign forces begin their withdrawal. Read full article >> Brash Tokyo governor quits, launches national party Oct 25th 2012, 10:41 SEOUL — One of Japan's highest-profile nationalists, Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, said Thursday that he will resign his post and form a new political party in a bid to gain power in the country's central government. Read full article >> The new Putinism: Nationalism fused with conservative Christianity Oct 25th 2012, 10:32 Two recent stories offer a revealing  — and, to some, unsettling — view of Russian President Vladimir Putin's emerging state ideology. The new Putinism, you might call it, seems to be a fusion of two older Russian ideas: nationalism, sometimes with an anti-Western tinge, and conservative interpretations of Orthodox Christianity. Both stories portray the coalescing, Kremlin-pushed ideology as a response to rising dissent and, more broadly, an effort to fill an ideological vacuum that has to some extent remained since the collapse of the Soviet Union two decades ago. Read full article >>

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