Best Columns - International
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Egypt: Approving a flawed constitution
feature The hastily written constitution all but guarantees that the Muslim Brotherhood will dominate Egypt for decades to come.
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Turkey: A mysterious attack on the U.S. Embassy
feature Who was really behind last week’s attack on the U.S. Embassy in Turkey?
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Australia: Where even the teachers can’t spell
feature Australia’s children are being taught by illiterate teachers.
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Lebanon: Assassination renews threat of civil war
feature Suspicion for a massive car bombing on Beirut immediately on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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Egypt: This nation is more than just Islam
feature Egypt is in danger of losing its identity to Islamism.
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Israel: Preventing the next war in Gaza
feature Israel has put a dent in the "terror infrastructure" that Hamas has built up and sent a signal to the Arab world. What's next?
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Israel and the Palestinians: The lines harden
feature Statehood for Palestine has just taken “one step forward and two steps back.”
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Syria: Will the conflict widen to Turkey?
feature The Turkish parliament authorized cross-border raids into Syria after Syrian shells landed in Turkey and killed five people.
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South Africa: A national hero accused of murder
feature Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic and Paralympic runner, has been arrested for the murder of his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
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India: After a savage rape, a nation looks inward
feature The brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman has “stirred the conscience of the nation.”
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Pakistan: A nation unites against the Taliban
feature Pakistanis have denounced the shooting of 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.
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Russia: Why is everyone so critical of Sochi?
feature Americans are being fed a censored version of the Sochi Olympics.
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North Korea: Bloody purge shocks the region
feature Officials usually get replaced quietly, yet images of the arrest and trial of Jang Song Thaek were blasted across state media.
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Tunisia: The only bloom of the Arab Spring
feature After years of “stormy discussions and intellectual tug-of-war,” Tunisia has emerged as a secular democracy.
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