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Bjorn Lomborg has long infuriated environmental activists with his contrarian views on global warming. Has he now embraced their cause?

Mark Perry paints a misleading portrait of how the U.S. government thinks of Hezbollah and Hamas.

The U.S. president has found himself caught in some old legal traps -- while creating new ones of his own.

The world's most repressive workplace environments -- where trade unions are suppressed, workers' rights are ignored, and forced labor is not unknown.

Can Obama turn the page on the war he never wanted?

A mysterious infection-breeding gene is sweeping the world -- or possibly just cable news.

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Obama is trying to broker a quiet compromise on the issue of Israeli settlement construction -- but it doesn’t seem that the Israeli far right is willing to play ball.

Why is de Gaulle suddenly back in vogue?

As Israelis and Palestinians sit down for direct talks for the first time in two years, it's what happens outside the negotiating room that matters most.

The United States and Israel have long attempted to cut Hamas out of the diplomatic game. But as direct talks kick off in Washington, the party appears more than happy to sit on the sidelines.

Sanctions aren't forcing Iran's leaders apart -- far from it. Ayatollah Khamenei's master plan is right on track.

From Pakistan's floods to Russia's wildfires to the United States' oil spill, 2010 has been an unusually bad summer for disasters, natural and otherwise -- enough so that plenty of enormous catastrophes, or just plain weird ones, have had to fight for headlines. Here's FP

Tensions between the government and the country’s Kurdish minority are threatening to explode like never before. And the collateral damage may include the Obama administration’s foreign policy.

Images from the war Obama didn't want.

President Obama told residents of the gulf states this weekend that he feels their pain. But the best way to help the gulf would be to let his ill-advised drilling moratorium expire early.

In South Sudan, a delayed vote could mean the collapse of fragile peace.

Saudi Arabia's Al-Waleed bin Talal is back in the spotlight for allegedly being one of the financiers behind the planned Islamic center in downtown Manhattan. Here are 10 things that you should know about the colorful royal.

A rumble in the Khimki forest leaves just one man standing. The question is, how many trees are left there too?

With U.S. combat troops out, the country remains fragile. But the drawdown has gone much better than anyone expected.

Obama's peace negotiator thinks his success in Northern Ireland should give us hope in the Middle East. But does the analogy really hold?

Why cell phones will do more for the developing world than laptops ever could.

A conversation with author Saskia Sassen, who coined the term "global city." As she tells FP: Don't focus only on London and New York. The rest of the world should want to be the next Miami.