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Sean Gallup/Getty Images Who’s the Most Powerful Woman in the World?
Hint: It's not Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg. She lives in Berlin and is key to solving the euro crisis.
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Photo by KAREN BLEIER/AFP/GettyImages The Inconvenient Diplomat
A farewell to the man who spoke out against Latin America’s leading bullies.
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Can You Save Diplomacy From Itself?
Carne Ross's quixotic crusade to help emerging nations get their seat at the table.
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Brahima Quedraogo/IRIN The Man Who Brought the Black Flag to Timbuktu
A new Islamist strongman has taken the stage in North Africa. His rising power is giving him a lot of bad ideas.
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JOSEPH BARRAK/AFP/GettyImages The Weathervane
As Syria's civil war explodes across the region, Walid Jumblatt is ripping into the United States for not doing more. Is he just shifting with the political winds once again?
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Ian Walton/Getty Images Tokyo’s Hawkish Governor Stirs the Pot
Japan's most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea -- and the Chinese are beating the drums of war.
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SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images The Point Guard
Susan Rice calls the plays for Barack Obama at the United Nations. Could she lead his foreign-policy team next? Should she?
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Kate Brooks for FP The Good Felool
If Amr Moussa wins Egypt's presidential election, is the revolution over?
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MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images Filling Saleh’s Shoes
Yemen's new president has his work cut out for him. Is he up to the task?
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ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images Hungary’s Pit Bull Prime Minister
How one of Europe’s most celebrated anti-communists become the bad boy of the continent.
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KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images The Temperature’s Dropping for Russia’s Opposition
Vladimir Putin is back in the saddle, and the weather is getting chilly again for Russia's protest movement.
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DIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP/Getty Images Hoping Against All Hope
Tibetans are setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule. So is there anything the leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile can do about it?
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Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images What Happened to My Revolution
Five influential Egyptian protesters look back on a tumultuous year.
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MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images The Army and the People Were Never One Hand
Maikel Nabil, the atheist, pro-Israel Egyptian writer who was released from prison today, was right all along.