EMAIL DETAILS

If you have problems viewing this email, view it in a browser. <http://link.foreignpolicy.com/view/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/288edc0b> Please feel free to forward it to a friend <http://link.foreignpolicy.com/forward/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/03b39865>.

Foreign Policy <http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/UlMc6uYQJxFs8sWzE7ca6>

MORNING BRIEF

Today's Global News from Foreign Policy <http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/UlMc6uYQJxFs8sWzF015b>


Sponsored by

<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VAjRxcPoL8N70ArPA3ebc>


TOP NEWS

Military Assumes Control in Burkina Faso

Military Assumes Control in Burkina Faso

<p> <b>Top News: </b>The <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQrA4151 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">military has taken control</a> in Burkina Faso, amid reports that President Blaise Compaoré has now formally resigned. </p><br><p> Protests broke out on Thursday in the capital of Ouagadougou after Compaoré, <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQsA386b style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">in power for 27 years</a>, offered a plan at the national assembly that would have allowed him to run for a fifth five-year term in 2015. But a vote on that plan never came, as demonstrators flooded the parliament, set the main chamber ablaze, and vandalized the headquarters of the national television station, forcing Compaoré to declare a state of emergency on Thursday. </p><br><p> Soon after, army commander General Honore Traore dissolved parliament, <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQtA34d7 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">announced a plan for a transitional government</a>, and called for elections within a year. Compaoré seems willing to compromise. In a statement broadcast on television, he said he is "available to open talks on a transitional period at the end of which [he] will hand over power," in addition to scuttling his plans to change the election laws. </p><br><p> But his announcement failed to quell the violence. On Friday, smoke billowed over government buildings and the homes of officials. At least one person died in demonstrations on Thursday. Meanwhile, opposition politician Zephirin Diabre said dozens of protesters had been killed by government security forces across the country. Reports have surfaced of government forces using live rounds and tear gas on protestors at parliament. Burkina Faso has also closed its borders and its international airport. </p><br><p> The opposition is against any change by force. Compaoré's opponents gathered in Ouagadougou's Place de la Nation and at the military headquarters, shouting: "Fulfill your responsibilities or we will do so ourselves." Diabre also posted to Twitter on Friday that "We totally oppose a coup d'état." </p><br><p> This is <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQuAc218 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">the sixth uprising</a> against Compaoré since 1999 and the first since the failed mutiny by soldiers in 2011. Burkina Faso is considered a vital ally of the United States in security operations against Islamist groups in the Sahel region of Africa. Ouagadougou also plays a key role in the security operation of France, which once ruled Burkina Faso as a colony. </p><br><p> <b>Al Aqsa mosque: </b>Israel will permit <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQvA1211 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">Muslims over the age of 50</a> to pray at the Al Aqsa mosque, following an earlier move to shut access to the holy site in an effort to quell violence in East Jerusalem. </p><br>


<strong>** Sponsored Message</strong>: Russia Direct is pleased to launch its third Student Essay Competition for young experts in foreign affairs. We would like to hear your ideas for people-to-people exchange programs that feature the U.S. and Russia. The winner will become a guest contributor to Russia Direct for a period of three months. <a style='font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414' href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VE_tVcPogYz5EfhxA461c>Read how to enter here.</a>
Africa

<ul><p> • Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the head of the 53-nation African Union, acknowledged at a meeting with the U.N. secretary-general and World Bank president in Ethiopia on Friday that African nations have <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQwAa7ad style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">relied too heavily on the international community</a> to help contain Ebola. </p><br> <p> • A ship from Britain carrying food, medical equipment, and trucks to help contain the Ebola outbreak <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQxAbc71 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">arrived in Sierra Leone</a> on Thursday.</p><br> <p> • As the outbreak continues, Liberian Presidnet Ellen John <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQyAa429 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">Sirleaf continues to face mounting pressures</a> as cabinet ministers and foreign investors alike flee.</p><br> </ul>
Americas

<ul><p> • Brazil is facing a <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQzAd97d style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">larger-than-expected budget deficit</a> in the wake of the closest presidential election in the history of its democracy. </p><br> <p> • In the wake of the Antares rocket explosion on Tuesday, NASA engineers announced on Thursday that they will include <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQ0A9376 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">escape systems</a> in the next generation of U.S. space crafts. </p><br> <p> • Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFIxUsPogYz5FPzGA45f0 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">confirmed that he is gay</a> in an essay in Businessweek.</p><br> </ul>
Asia

<ul><p> • Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQ1Ae221 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">brought an end to sanctions</a> against Fiji on Friday, in a bid to normalize bilateral relations that have been strained since the small island nation's military coup in 2006. </p><br> <p> • Two children of a Malaysian passenger on Malaysian Airlines flight 370, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March, <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQ2A74d1 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">have filed a lawsuit</a> for negligence against the airline and the government. </p><br> <p> • Reuters reports that some <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQ3A52ef style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">$30 billion of long-delayed government funds</a> for reconstruction following the tsunami in Japan three and a half years ago has yet to be delivered to affected citizens and municipalities.</p><br> </ul>
Europe

<ul><p> • Moscow announced on Friday that it may <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQ4Abd53 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">resume gas flows to Ukraine</a> next week if Kiev agrees to pay some $2.2 billion in debts and pre-payments in November. </p><br> <p> • Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQ5Aa69f style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">reversed plans</a> on Friday to institute an Internet data tax after thousands of protestors took to the streets in opposition. </p><br> <p> • Britain will finally <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQ6A14ec style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">retire some £218m of World War I</a> debt by refinancing bonds issued in 1917, meaning it will decrease the size of the debt by re-borrowing the money at present-day interest rates.</p><br> </ul>
Middle East

<ul><p> • Iran's top human rights envoy <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQ7Aede7 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">defended his country from criticism</a> from the West in Geneva on Friday, following his country's execution of a woman who murdered a man that tried to rape her. </p><br> <p> • Ten Kurdish peshmerga military planners from Iraq arrived in Kobani on Thursday, making them the <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQ8Abc68 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">first western-backed foreign fighters</a> to enter the ground war in Syria.</p><br> <p> • The family of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, held without explanation or charges by Iran since July, called on Tehran on Thursday to <a href="http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFOK8sPoQHbc4zQ9A6310 style="font-weight:bold;color:#ea1414" target="blank">release him</a> via a statement posted online. </p><br> </ul>
- By Siddhartha Mahanta

Register <http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/UoEWH8JSdj56EApzD9cc6> at ForeignPolicy.com to receive Morning Brief and other FP newsletters. <http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/UoEWH8JSdj56EApzE53ee>

RD2 <http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/U5tsxsPojsdCVSvoA2bb5>

TRENDING ON FOREIGNPOLICY.COM <http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/UlMc6uYQJxFs8sWzG3357>

The Kremlin’s $220 Million Man <http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFBZ-8PoRXjpQXwKA0243>

by Michael Weiss

Middle East Meltdown <http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFLWLMPoHz1zRlTeA9f6f>

by Aaron David Miller

Why Is Bahrain Outsourcing Extremism? <http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/VFFaMcPoUmX3DVOWA29df>

by Ala'a Shehabi


If you believe this has been sent to you in error, please click <http://link.foreignpolicy.com/oc/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71y4sk.1aqc/6e317470> to safely unsubscrib