A new aid boat has set off from the coast of Italy for Gaza, as the UN Security Council condemned Monday's deadly Israeli commando raid. An Israeli Navy commander told the Jerusalem Post, "Next time we'll use more force."

Of course everyone wants some face time with Barack Obama this week. But what are delegations from 46 countries looking for when they arrive? Money, respect, weapons, and more help hiding "secret" nuclear arsenals. [Foreign Policy, pic: Getty]

President Obama and Russian President Medvedev just signed a landmark new arms control treaty. Now, it's up to the United States Senate—the world's greatest deliberative body—to ratify it. All it takes is 67 votes.

Foreign Policy has finally just ranked the years of our decade from hell.

Iranian officials are blaming America for a terrorist attack in the Sistan-Baluchistan province. They're also vowing to take revenge on those responsible for the bombing. This could get ugly.

Future president Mitt Romney is both a "Bainiac"—a data-obsessed business android indoctrinated into Bain and Company's cultish worldview—and a Mormon. So his foreign policy is a weird, numerological, schematic mess. Here it is in PowerPoint, his native language.

• Is Rupert Murdoch losing it? Surprisingly, a rival paper thinks yes. [Telegraph U.K.]
  

Woo-hoo! Foreign Policy magazine turns 35 next month, and we just got a press release about the wild and crazy celebration the mag has planned.