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Walt

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Morning Brief: Iran announces
it is mining uranium of eve of nuclear talks

AfPak
Daily brief: 50 dead in Pakistan blasts

Mideast
News brief: U.S. official: Israel must refrain from E. Jerusalem
construction during freeze

What
Resource Curse? - by Charles Kenny

Watching
Iran - by Barbara Slavin

Spain
on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown - by Edward Hugh

Failing
Afghanistan - by Daniel Markey

The
LWOT: Mohamud arrest sparks debate on entrapment; terrorist-linked passport
forging ring broken up - by Andrew Lebovich

The
Land of No Good Options - by James Traub

Do
Ask, Must Tell - by Piotr Zalewski

This
Week at War: The Covert War Inside Iran - by Robert Haddick

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Passport: Chillaxin' in Sochi with Vova and Dima

Turtle
Bay: Brazil's coming human rights shift

FP
Passport: The Case against a unity government in Cote D'Ivoire

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Passport: Egypt's shark week: Mossad to blame?

Madam
Secretary: Secretary Clinton devising N. Korea strategy with Japan and S.
Korea

FP
Passport: Disaster diplomacy in the Middle East?

WikiLeaked:
Guinea's stage-managed coup

WikiLeaked:
Who's more influential in Iraq? Iran or Saudi Arabia?

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The
List: The World's Most Notorious Prisons

With President Obama expected to announce the closing of the detention
center at Guantánamo Bay within days, here's a look at five of the most brutal
and controversial prisons that are still in operation around the world.

BY GREG SHTRAKS | JANUARY 21, 2009

PIERRE-FRANCK COLOMBIER/AFP/Getty Images

La Sant

Country: France

Conditions: The last remaining prison in Paris -- it's located near the
Montparnasse area -- was established in 1867 and has housed everyone from
surrealist poet Guillaume Apollinaire to legendary assassin Carlos the Jackal.
The prison's name, which means health, might seem ironic considering the
conditions inside. Mattresses are infested with lice, and because prisoners
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