Self-exiled former Georgia president Mikheil Saakashvili returns as governor of key region in Ukraine

MOSCOW—He's probably best known as the former president of Georgia. Or more recently, as a one-term academic at Tufts University, or to residents of Brooklyn, as the man about Williamsburg in fluorescent shoes. Mikheil Saakashvili, the pro-Western ex-president of the small former Soviet country brazen enough to start a war with Russia in 2008, has tried to […]









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Map: The U.S. is bound by treaties to defend a quarter of humanity

The United States is bound by a number of treaties that could, in theory, force it to get involved in a war if an ally is attacked. Consider, for example, the situation in Ukraine, a non-member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. If a NATO ally were to find itself under similar threat from Russia, the U.S. […]









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After FIFA arrests, Brazilians ask: Why didn’t we do this?

As the shock wave that followed this week's arrests in Switzerland of seven FIFA bosses, including the former head of the Brazilian soccer confederation, José Maria Marin, subsided, Brazilians expressed three reactions. The first was: well done to the United States and Swiss for arresting this bunch. The second: how shameful that we couldn’t do this ourselves. And the third: now surely it’s the turn of Brazil’s authorities to take this further, given that the accusations of corruption at the higher levels of the Brazilian game are numerous and have been resounding for decades.









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It’s not corruption that keeps FIFA’s Sepp Blatter in power. It’s history.

It's confusing to many how a man as universally reviled as FIFA President Sepp Blatter can still command so much influence. From his blatant sexism to his role at the top of an institution racked by allegations of corruption, Blatter has become a pantomime villain — a scheming bureaucrat, an agent to autocrats and crony […]









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After 33 years, the U.S. drops Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. Here’s what it means.

The U.S. State Department's formally removed Cuba from its official list of state sponsors of terrorism. The move signals a significant, symbolic step toward the normalization of ties between Washington and Havana and the potential opening of embassies in both countries. Cuba's status as a "state sponsor" of terrorism had been under review since last […]









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In Egypt to meet moderate Muslims, France’s far-right leader is scolded for her views on Islam

Marine le Pen, the leader of the popular French far right National Front party, has often seemed at loggerheads with Islam. Just after the devastating attacks in Paris this year, for example, she tweeted: "It is the Islamists who have declared war on France." However, Le Pen herself has often gone to some lengths to say her […]









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Map: The world according to the Islamic State

The Islamic State had one of its most successful weeks recently with the capture of Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria. But another statement about the group is also quite disturbing: The militants established 10 networks outside of Iraq and Syria, according to the Soufan Group. What's more: These Islamic State strongholds are only the […]









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