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If It Shrugs Off China’s Embrace, Taiwan Risks More Than Just Trade Ties

If It Shrugs Off China’s Embrace, Taiwan Risks More Than Just Trade Ties


If It Shrugs Off China’s Embrace, Taiwan Risks More Than Just Trade Ties

Posted: 26 Dec 2014 01:29 AM PST

With prospects growing on the island for an opposition presidential victory in 2016, some observers fear a return to the cross-strait frictions of the past.






U.N. Set to Cut Force in Darfur as Fighting Rises

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 06:19 PM PST

United Nations officials say their forces are routinely attacked by Sudanese forces and their proxies and that it is virtually impossible for their peacekeepers to remain without Sudan's blessing.






Driven Into Debt: Rise in Loans Linked to Cars Is Hurting Poor

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 06:17 PM PST

With a crackdown on payday lenders, subprime borrowers are increasingly using auto title loans, whose high interest rates can lead to repossession and financial ruin.






SÃo LuÍs Journal: Decline of a Political Family Opens the Way for a Shift in Brazil

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 06:10 PM PST

As José Sarney prepares to leave his Senate seat representing Maranhão State, a profound power shift could be underway.

For Sri Lankan President, Renounced by Aides, Confidence of Re-election Dims

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 06:02 PM PST

Defectors from the cabinet of President Mahinda Rajapaksa have bragged about plotting their desertion under his nose.

DealBook: Unsolved Shooting Accentuates Problems at Doral, One of Puerto Rico’s Biggest Mortgage Lenders

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 06:01 PM PST

The mysterious killing of a top executive is one of many troubles that have shaken Doral Financial and unnerved investors.

M.B.A. Programs Start to Follow Silicon Valley Into the Data Age

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 05:08 PM PST

Leading business schools are breaking from traditional approaches and picking up the digital-age arts of speed and constant experimentation.

Critic’s Notebook: Human Costs of the Forever Wars, Enough to Fill a Bookshelf

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 04:59 PM PST

Books that have grown out of America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq illuminate the nature of those battles, the people who are fighting them and America itself.

After Killing of Police Officers, Protest Movement Is at a Crossroads

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 03:27 PM PST

Some factions want to keep pressing for police reform, as two slain officers are mourned in New York City. Others say that might alienate the public.

Crowds Gather as ‘The Interview’ Begins Screening in 331 Theaters

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 02:51 PM PST

The film had improbably become a symbol of free speech over the last week as hackers managed to get it withdrawn from theaters and then watched it open after all.






Rugby: New Zealand Entrenched as World Cup Favorites

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 02:24 PM PST

The All Blacks will once again finish the year as the top-ranked team in the world, and the other top teams all have improvements to make if they want to challenge them next year for the world title.

Shabab Fighters Ambush Base of Peacekeepers in Somalia

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 02:10 PM PST

As officers were eating, assailants sneaked into the base, killing three soldiers and a civilian in what the African Union called a "reprehensible attack."

Washington Memo: U.S. Agency Hiring 1,000 After Obama’s Immigration Order

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 11:46 AM PST

The Citizenship and Immigration Services agency will spend millions for a lease and 1,000 new employees to carry out President Obama's executive actions on immigration.

Critic’s Notebook: ‘Degas’s Little Dancer’ Spotlights a Seminal Sculpture

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 11:11 AM PST

"Degas's Little Dancer" is a small show at the National Gallery of Art, but full of reasons Degas gained a following.

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Movie Review: ‘The Interview,’ With James Franco and Seth Rogen, Is Back On

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 09:51 AM PST

"The Interview" mainly extends the bro-com, as practiced by James Franco and Seth Rogen, into new geopolitical markets.






Volunteers Get License to Drive in Presidential Motorcade

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 09:37 AM PST

People with no special training are a link in the middle of the fastest, and most high-profile, chain of vehicles in the country.






Militants Attack AU Somalia Base, at Least 5 Dead

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 08:41 AM PST

Gunmen attacked the African Union's main base in the capital, Mogadishu, on Thursday leading to an exchange of gunfire between militants and soldiers that left at least five militants dead, an official with the mission in Somalia said.






The Soccer Rout That Shook the World

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 07:47 AM PST

Germany's 7-1 victory over Brazil in the World Cup semifinals in Belo Horizonte was both stunning and humiliating, the first time that the Brazilians had lost a competitive match at home since 1975.

Francis, in Christmas Day Message, Focuses on Children in Peril

Posted: 25 Dec 2014 06:49 AM PST

Vast numbers of children today are victims of violence, objects of trade and trafficking, or forced to become soldiers, he said.






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