In sharp reversal, U.S. agrees to rebuke Israel in Security Council, Feb. 16

Colum Lynch's Turtle Bay blog has become the web's go-to for all information U.N. -- so much so that he was recently nominated for an ASME Digital Ellie Award for Best Digital News Reporting. This month, Lynch caused quite a stir by reporting that the Obama administration would support a U.N. Security Council statement reaffirming that the Council "does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity."

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10 Reasons Americans Should Care About the Egyptian Revolution, Feb. 10

Blogger Stephen Walt understands that maybe not everyone cares about the Egyptian Revolution as much as his readers. He offered a list of 10 reasons why non-foreign policy obsessed Americans should care about the what was happening in Cairo, connecting the events in Tahrir Square to the dollars in our pockets and the hash tags in our Tweets.

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From Malabo to Malibu, Feb. 22

One of the highlight's of FP's March/April issue was Teodorin's World, an investigative piece by reporter Ken Silverstein, which delved into the life of the son of the president of Equatorial Guinea and the world's richest minister of agriculture and forestry, Teodorin Obiang -- a story complete with Playboy bunnies and $2 million Bugattis. This slideshow vividly illustrated that world, contrasting the lavishness of Obiang's Malibu estate with the abject poverty faced by most of the people in his country.

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