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China Rates Approach Crisis Levels Despite Central Bank Measures

China Rates Approach Crisis Levels Despite Central Bank Measures


China Rates Approach Crisis Levels Despite Central Bank Measures

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 12:15 AM PST

A $50 billion cash injection failed to prevent interest rates in China's money markets from approaching crisis levels seen last June.


Member of Russian Punk Band Freed Under Amnesty Law

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 12:03 AM PST

Maria Alyokhina, one of two members of the band Pussy Riot whose prison sentences had drawn international condemnation, was released on Monday.


Pussy Riot Member Released From Prison

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 11:28 PM PST

A jailed member of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, who was found guilty of hooliganism after a performance critical of President Vladimir Putin, has been released from prison.


Midsize Cities in Poland Develop as Service Hubs for Outsourcing Industry

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 08:06 PM PST

Poland has become a hub for an international corporate clientele that values the country's well-educated and often multilingual work force.

Buying Overseas Clothing, U.S. Flouts Its Own Advice

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 07:54 PM PST

In some countries, suppliers to the American government show a pattern of unsafe or abusive conditions.


Northampton Journal: Partying Until Drunk and Disorderly in Britain

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 06:42 PM PST

British officials are considering solutions as large numbers of British youths go out on the weekends to get thoroughly, blindingly and often violently drunk.


Bringing Giorgio Vasari’s ‘The Last Supper’ Back to Life

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 06:40 PM PST

Restoration work continues on Giorgio Vasari's "The Last Supper," a work from 1546 that was damaged in a flood in 1966.


Americans Evacuated From South Sudan

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 05:54 PM PST

Americans were flown out of a besieged United Nations compound, a day after a first attempt was fired upon.


Critic’s Notebook: Seeing a Need for Oversight of New York’s Lordly Towers

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 05:31 PM PST

As new skyscrapers remake 57th Street into a Billionaires' Row, it's time to question how decisions get made about New York's skyline.

Dozens Are Killed in Syrian Violence, Even Amid Preparations for Peace Talks

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 04:34 PM PST

At least 25 people were killed in Aleppo, antigovernment activists reported, while a suicide car bombing killed at least 10 people in the central province of Homs.

Free to Speak About Russia, but Now From a Safe Distance

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 03:40 PM PST

Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, a former billionaire and a critic of President Vladimir V. Putin's who was imprisoned for a decade, said in Berlin that he would work to help other political prisoners.


The Caucus: Obama Says ‘Further Action’ Possible in South Sudan

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 02:53 PM PST

President Obama sent a letter Sunday to top congressional leaders in which he said he might take "further action to support the security of U.S. citizens, personnel, and property, including our embassy, in South Sudan."


Passengers on Bus Near Tel Aviv Flee Just Before a Bomb Explodes

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 02:23 PM PST

Alert passengers and a bus driver are credited with saving the lives of those aboard the bus.


China Deal Gives Apple Big Market to Court

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 02:07 PM PST

The agreement to bring the iPhone to China Mobile could, at least initially, give Apple a big lift into the vast Chinese market, analysts say, increasing its global sales.


Strategy Remains Elusive for Ukraine Opposition

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 01:40 PM PST

Protest turnout was again large on Sunday, but the day's tenor was one of acknowledgment that the movement was ebbing as opposition leaders struggle to convey their next step.


Video Game Review: The Walking Dead: Season Two Is Appropriate for Beginners

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 01:29 PM PST

The Walking Dead: Season Two is approachable for the gaming illiterate while also demonstrating the promise of video games as something more than a vehicle for fast-twitch excitement.

Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Generation of Rescue Robots

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 12:40 PM PST

A team of Japanese roboticists was among eight selected to move on to compete for a chance at the $2 million prize in an international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots.


Bangladeshi Factory Owners Charged in Fire That Killed 112

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 11:37 AM PST

The case that came to symbolize the appalling working conditions in the textile industry is the first in which the authorities have sought to prosecute factory owners in the garment industry.

ArtsBeat: Vienna Philharmonic Revokes Nazi Honors

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 10:34 AM PST

At its annual meeting in October, the orchestra decided to revoke the honors that had been bestowed on several Nazi officials during Hitler's reign.


In Blow to Leadership of ’11 Revolt, Egypt Activists Are Given 3 Years in Prison

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 09:21 AM PST

The three well-known activists, Ahmed Maher, Mohamed Adel and Ahmed Douma, were convicted under a new law seen as part of the military-backed government's effort to curb dissent.

John Eisenhower, Historian and Son of the President, Dies at 91

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 08:17 AM PST

Mr. Eisenhower, the son of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the five-star general turned president, forged his own career in the Army and then chronicled the history of the military in numerous books.


Bangladesh Factory Owners Charged in Deadly Fire

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 03:34 AM PST

Police charged the owners of a Bangladeshi garment factory and 11 employees with culpable homicide Sunday for alleged negligence leading to the death of 112 workers in a raging fire that engulfed the factory last year.


Khodorkovsky: I Won't Get Into Politics

Posted: 22 Dec 2013 03:28 AM PST

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the onetime Russian oil tycoon who was imprisoned for a decade in a politically tinged case, says he doesn't intend to get involved in politics now that he's been pardoned and released.

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