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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Guang Niu/Getty Images Chinese policemen try to save a boy from being crushed by the crowd near a ticket booth at the Olympic Green on July 25 in Beijing, China. Starting today, the remaining 820,000 Olympic tickets, of which 250,000 are for competitions held in the capital city, became available for purchase by individuals at the Olympic venues.
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
Minot Air Force Base is not having a good news year. Last year, cruise missiles armed with nuclear weapons left the base by accident ; this March, the Air Force discovered it had inadvertently shipped fuse components for nuclear weapons to Taiwan in 2006; and in May, Minot's 5th Bomb Wing failed a security test. Now we have news of another mishap, this time involving classified material at Minot....
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
They've tackled malaria and AIDS, but now two billionaire philanthropists are taking on another developing world health-scourge: smoking. Former Microsoft Chair Bill Gates and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg just pledged $500 million to the fight against tobacco use, most of which will go to developing countries. Check out their discussion with Charlie Rose here: Gates and Bloomberg have a tough...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
The international community may have finally succeeded in creating a safe space where people from all the Balkans' ethnic groups can live together in harmony and respect each others' cultures. The trouble is, it's in a prison for ruthless war criminals awaiting trial at The Hague: Released inmates say the ethnic rivalries that drove them to fratricide in the bloody wars that accompanied the break-up...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
French President Nicolas Sarkozy comes perilously close to endorsing Barack Obama in his comments to Le Figaro and CNN. Ben Smith : Obama? He's my pal," the president told Le Figaro. "Unlike my diplomatic advisers, I never believed in Hillary Clinton's chances. I always said that Obama would be nominated." Sarkozy added that an Obama victory "would validate" his strategy of reconcilation with the...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some folks have all the luck : The Harrods owner Mohamed Fayed has tapped a new source of wealth after winning a stake in a tiny oilfield under his Surrey estate despite not knowing it was there for several years.
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | yesterday
Be sure to check out the National Aquatics Center and more of China's Olympic architecture rendered in Lego at the Hong Kong Lego blog. (Hat tip: Gizmodo )
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Well, sort of. The seemingly ubiquitous presidendial candidate has shelled out $5 million to join McDonalds and Anheuser-Busch as major advertiser during NBC's coverage of next month's Olympics. The ad buy is the largest by any presidential candidate on network television in the last 16 years, AdAge reports : While Rudy Giuliani's campaign did a tiny buy to air political ads on "Fox News Sunday" in...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Drudge posts Barack's Obama's prepared remarks . Some of the rhetoric may sound familiar to those of you who have seen the Illinois senator's stump speech, but this is the European touch: I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen -- a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world....
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
It's official. Iraq won't be competing in Beijing : The International Olympic Committee says Iraq will not compete at Beijing because of Iraqi government interference. The IOC suspended Iraq's national Olympic committee in June after Baghdad dismissed elected officials and installed its own people who are not recognized by the IOC.
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Apparently Russia isn't the only country ready to play politics with its resource exports , BBC reports : Libya's state shipping company says it has halted oil shipments to Switzerland in protest at the brief arrest of leader Muammar Gaddafi's youngest son. Yes, the son's name is Hannibal. He was charged with assault . It's not the first time he's been in trouble , either.
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Many Passport readers may not be aware of a resource we've been quietly experimenting with in the background -- our " Must Reads " section. We come across a great deal of good stuff on the Internets in the course of our work, and we can't blog or use it all. But we think readers will appreciate a quick and easy place to go to find links to interesting news stories and analysis elsewhere. We're definitely...
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Marc Ambinder reports , you decide: With less than six months to go before he would be sworn in as the nation's 44th president, Sen. Barack Obama has directed his aides to begin planning for the transition.
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
William Thomas Cain/Getty Images John McCain has been tying himself in knots lately trying to explain what he meant when he told CBS's Katie Couric that the " Anbar Awakening " was made possible by the "surge." Chronologically speaking, that's dubious -- but McCain later said that he conceives of the surge as the broader counterinsurgency strategy that the U.S. military began putting in place in the...
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Foreign Policy (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Having trouble keeping track of everything that happened on Barack Obama’s whirlwind world tour? FP is here to help.
