Subject: Editors' Picks: The shape-shifting coalition in Syria; and the selfie pilgrimage to Mecca
From: "Foreign Policy" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 18:10:09 -0400 (EDT)

FOREIGN POLICY'S TOP 5 READS
Wednesday, October 01

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#1 
THE SHAPE-SHIFTING COALITION: America's allies in the fight against the Islamic State may seem willing now, but what happens when they want to start bombing Assad? <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71v9qm.2jec/VCx118Po9PuWZyf8A0df0 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71v9qm.2jec/VCx118Po9PuWZyf3Ab69e>

#2
VIDEOS OF THE DAY: A rocky cease-fire in eastern Ukraine is allowing both sides to clean up after five months of war. Watch FP contributor Alec Luhn’s footage from the frontlines: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71v9qm.2jec/VCx118Po9PuWZyf9A0ace target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71v9qm.2jec/VCx118Po9PuWZyf4Ad367>

#3
BEIJING’S WORST CASE SCENARIO: With attention fixed on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, FP’s Isaac Stone Fish sits down with Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer to talk about her people’s own struggle against Beijing: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71v9qm.2jec/VCx118Po9PuWZyf-A0408 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>: 
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71v9qm.2jec/VCx118Po9PuWZyf5Ab40d>

#4
THE SELFIE PILGRIMAGE: Muslim clerics are speaking out against taking selfies on the trail to Mecca, but the 21st century portrait keeps popping up as thousands perform Islam’s most ancient ritual: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71v9qm.2jec/VCx118Po9PuWZyf_A0c93 target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71v9qm.2jec/VCx118Po9PuWZyf6Aa6c0>

#5
BUTT OUT, AMERICA: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez has called for Beijing to respect Hong Kong's democratic rights, but the Chinese say Menendez should mind his own business. FP’s John Hudson reports: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71v9qm.2jec/VCx118Po9PuWZygAAa38a target='_blank' style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#ea1414;text-decoration:none;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;'>Read more</a>:
<http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71v9qm.2jec/VCx118Po9PuWZyf7A8035>

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