Subject: Editors' Picks: Turkey's political game in Kobani; and China's strange and powerful farming militia
From: "Foreign Policy" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 18:31:53 -0400 (EDT)

FOREIGN POLICY'S TOP 5 READS
Wednesday, October 08

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#1 
WHILE KOBANI BURNS: As the Islamic State advances on Kobani, Kurdish officials say they have been betrayed by the Turkish government. FP’s David Kenner reports: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vxfw.2i1g/VDWuMMPo9dijqmq9A85f8 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/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vxfw.2i1g/VDWuMMPo9dijqmqzAb15b>

#2
THE CLOSETED CONTINENT: 38 out of 55 African countries have laws punishing sodomy. FP’s Suzanne Nossel writes that it might get worse before it gets better: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vxfw.2i1g/VDWuMMPo9dijqmq_Adf2c 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/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vxfw.2i1g/VDWuMMPo9dijqmq1Afe98>

#3
CHINA'S MILITARY-FARMING COMPLEX: One of China's more peculiar organizations just turned 60: A vast farming militia that cultivates cotton, tomatoes, and dabbles in mining and textiles -- when it's not fighting terrorism: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vxfw.2i1g/VDWuMMPo9dijqmrBA2116 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/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vxfw.2i1g/VDWuMMPo9dijqmq3A1c73>

#4
HANGMAN'S JUSTICE: The new Afghanistan is meant to be a better place for women, but the execution of five men in a gang-rape case is no victory for human rights in the country: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vxfw.2i1g/VDWuMMPo9dijqmrDA3f7a 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/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vxfw.2i1g/VDWuMMPo9dijqmq5A456e>

#5
&quot;THERE’S GOING TO BE FAILURES&quot;: After weeks of Syrian Kurdish fighters holding back the Islamic State's advance, the Pentagon says Kobani could fall into the militant group's hands: <a href='http://link.foreignpolicy.com/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vxfw.2i1g/VDWuMMPo9dijqmrFAabe7 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/5253172ac16bcfa46f6bd4c71vxfw.2i1g/VDWuMMPo9dijqmq7A5594>

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