F. BRINLEY BRUTON

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Bahrain to citizens living abroad: Spy — or else

- Bahrainis living abroad have been ordered to spy on their countrymen in the wake of a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.

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Ex-ambassador: US drug policies wrongheaded

- American policymakers should heed the recommendations of a damning report that said the global war on drugs has failed, a former British ambassador to Colombia and longtime advocate for the legal regulation of drugs told msnbc.com on Thursday.

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Headscarves slam brakes on women's careers

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Funda Altintas picks at her lamb kofte and salad and tentatively describes her dream.

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'Pushed aside': Turkey's Kurds lose hope

ISTANBUL, Turkey - A few dozen protesters held yellow banners emblazoned with "BDP" on an icy day in Turkey's largest city. Most pedestrians in Taksim, Istanbul's main shopping district, took little notice of the men wearing dingy dark jackets and women in fringed headscarves and peasant-style skirts.

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US ally Turkey flirts with Mideast's 'bad boys'

ISTANBUL, Turkey — The fragrance of oranges mingles with the smell of tear gas in Sinem Yoruk's memories of the night a mob rampaged through her neighborhood.

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U.S. stimulus buoys U.K. factory’s workers

COVENTRY, U.K. - Photographs of President Barack Obama run on a constant loop in the foyer of a factory here, roughly 100 miles northwest of London.

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New Orleans: Eating its way to recovery

If my family were totally honest we would admit that food is our religion. It’s our most important pastime, our biggest obsession and greatest source of pleasure and strife. Food was the biggest reason our disparate clan put down roots in New Orleans, a place that has transformed food, drink and generally carrying on into high art.

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U.K. ponders bigger shift in bank crisis

- During the go-go years of the late 1990s and early 2000s, Britain found itself at the center of the world’s economy. Conventional wisdom had it that The City — London's financial district — had surpassed Wall Street as the global money center.

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