The morning after final passage of the USA Freedom Act, while some foes of mass surveillance were celebrating, Thomas Drake sounded decidedly glum. The new law, he told me, is “a new spy program.” It restarts some of the worst aspects of...
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  On Friday, US drones attacked a funeral in Afghanistan’s Khost Province, tearing through a crowd of mourners and leaving at...
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  BANGKOK, Thailand -- The American Embassy welcomed the arrest of a
	Thai army general on charges "related to migrant smuggling, abuses,
	trafficking" and other crimes after President Obama and the U.S. State
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	BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's expensive international tourism effort
	to downplay its reputation as a sexual playground suffered a rude
	setback after three British soccer players appeared in a published
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  “Nope, nope, nope,” was Australia’s Prime Minister, Tony Abbott’s answer to the question whether his country will take in any of the nearly 8,000 Rohingya refugees stranded at sea.
Abbott’s logic is...
            




