12 remain missing in Taiwan plane crash; cause of crash.
Updated 4 hours ago. TAIPEI ��� Rescuers were searching for 12 people Thursday morning, using a crane to hoist the fuselage of a wrecked TransAsia Airways plane from a shallow river in Taiwans capital in a crash that killed at least 31. Flight 235, with 58 people aboard ��� many of them travelers from China ��� banked sharply on its side Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Taipei, clipped a highway bridge and then careened into the Keelung River. Rescuers in��.
Taiwans press: Give us our daily Apple | The Economist
After he added the influential China Times to his stable of newspapers, magazines and television stations in 2008, critics say the paper started to echo views from the mainland and grew reluctant to raise sensitive issues, such as unrest in. The alarm increased when Tsai Eng-meng told the Washington Post that the number of people who were killed when China crushed the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 had been greatly exaggerated.. View all comments (6)��.
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The New York Times Michael R. Gordon and Peter Baker on the significance of the presidents trip: Obama ���rarely travels overseas to mark the death of a foreign leader; more often, he dispatches the vice president, secretary of state or other.
Public Marriage Proposals Gone Wrong: The 13 Biggest.
After Only Two Weeks. Video screenshot. It was a ballsy move, well give her that. This young lady proposed to her boyfriend on leap day, Feb. 29, after just two weeks of dating. Maybe it was the magic of a day that only comes once.. Nemtsovs voice on his last radio show was just as emotional and as critical of the authorities as usual: the politician accused President Vladimir Putin of covertly starting and commanding the war in Ukraine, as well as for ���committing a��.
Academic Freedom Media Review: 21 December 2013 ��� 10.
Yasmin was at home after a day at work at Al-Baath University in Homs, Syria, when she heard that one of her students had been shot and killed.. Rachel Lin and Stacy Hsu, Taipei Times. Russia recently pardoned the oil baron turned activist Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky and other prominent critics of President Vladimir V. Putin in a move widely seen as an attempt to mollify international criticism on the eve of the Winter. You must be logged in to post a comment.
Politics this week
The Canadian authorities disclosed that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who was killed after he opened fire in the parliament on October 22nd, had been trying to get a passport to travel to Syria. The funeral of a soldier killed in the attack became a day of.
Guns, Lies, and Videotape: The War in Eastern Ukraine Is Back On in Full
Get FP All Access �� for 20% off, for a limited time only... After a bloody weekend in eastern Ukraine that left 30 civilians dead and more than 100 wounded, ambassadors from Ukraine and NATO announced that they would hold a special meeting Monday.
Mixed Reports on Bergdahl Charges; Obama, Modi Give.
Mixed Reports on Bergdahl Charges; Obama, Modi Give Radio Address; Pakistan Criticizes Indian Inclusion in Nuclear Security Group �� | Foreign Policy | the Global Magazine of News and Ideas.. pre-recorded show titled ���Mann Ki Baat��� (Words from the Heart) was broadcast on the state-owned All India Radio on Tuesday evening in India, hours after Obama concluded his three-day visit (WSJ, Economic Times, Indian Express)... What Putin Learned From Reagan.
Tired and Angry, Mexicos Protests Show No Signs of Abating
The rural colleges have long been a force in Mexicos student movements: After the massacre at Tlatelolco in 1968, in which anywhere from 150 to 325 student demonstrators in Mexico City were killed by military and police forces, the government.
How Putin Is Reinventing Warfare | Foreign Policy
. Converted ��� Siobh��n OGrady | 6 hours ago... The Kremlins approach might be called non-linear war, a term used in a short story written by one of Putins closest political advisors, Vladislav Surkov, which was published under his pseudonym, Nathan Dubovitsky, just a few days before the annexation of Crimea. Surkov is credited. This time, he sets his new story in a dystopian future, after the fifth world war. Surkov writes:.. + Follow. Share. Post comment as.
White House Unveils Call for Strategic Patience | Foreign.
It was an attempt to push back on the criticism that for years has been heaped on Obama for failing to quickly deal with crises ��� including the rise of the Islamic State and Russias military aggression against Ukraine ��� that have. A White House summary of the strategy, released ahead of Rices remarks, repeatedly highlighted the administrations intent to lead ��� in partnerships, with military power, and ���with a long-term perspective, influencing the trajectory of major��.
FPs Situation Report - Foreign Policy
The Guardians Anna Nemtsova and Luke Harding on a Putin dissenter: ���The Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was arrested on Tuesday after breaking house arrest to join an opposition rally in Moscow, hours after a court gave him a suspended. The New York Times Eric Schmitt: ���An American drone strike in Somalia has killed the chief of intelligence for the Shabab, the Qaeda affiliate in that country, Somali officials said Tuesday... + Follow. Share. Post comment as.
FPs Situation Report, presented by Lockheed Martin: U.S. is.
FPs Situation Report, presented by Lockheed Martin: U.S. is missing key allies in Islamic State fight; Putin remains defiant as Russian economy crumbles; North Korean cyberattack undermines Obamas Cuba success; and much more.. Reuters on a tragedy in Sierra Leone: ���Sierra Leones leading doctor died of Ebola on Thursday, hours after the arrival in the country of an experimental drug that could have been used to treat him, the governments chief medical��.
Mixed reports on possible Bergdahl charges
Army officials have strongly denied the report (Fox, Army Times). Pentagon. On Wednesday members of Afghanistans lower legislative house, the Wolsei Jirga, began voting on 18 cabinet nominees after a long and drawn out process lasting more than.
Tearing Up the Magna Carta
Lynch has appeared frequently on the Lehrer News Hour, MSNBC, NPR radio, and the BBC. He has. But Vallss ticking time bomb exploded anyway, turning Paris this week into a scene of blood, bullet holes, and hostage standoffs, feeding fears that.
Putin critic slain hours after remarks on radio
A few hours after going on the radio to denounce Russian President Vladimir Putins policies as ���mad,��� charismatic opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down early yesterday near the Kremlin. Colleagues in Russias beleaguered and marginalized .
Putins Got America Right Where He Wants It | Foreign Policy
Last weeks G-20 summit was the first time U.S. President Barack Obama had seen his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, since 2009. An account of their long, loveless meeting on the sidelines of the conference, along with��.
A Little Less Talk, a Lot More Action
16 attack on a school in Pakistans northern city of Peshawar that killed 140 students, the countrys civilian and military leadership is busy formulating strategies to effectively fight the 13-year-long war on terror and curb the spread of extremism.
Why was Alexei Navalny released on bail? - The Economist
LESS than 24 hours after Alexei Navalny (pictured with his wife), Russias leading opposition leader, was pronounced guilty, sentenced to five years in a prison camp and led away in handcuffs from the court room, he was returned to the. Mr Navalny, one of the Kremlins main critics who had labelled its ruling United Russia a party of ���thieves and swindlers��� suited this role not least because he was way behind Mr Sobyanin in opinion polls for the mayors job which is��.
Russia and Chinas Moves Towards Ultranationalism.
Putin has his critics, like journalists, murdered on a regular basis. He shuts down opposition TV, radio and papers. He has committed genocide in the Caucasus for years now. I support the armed secessionists in the Caucasus��.
Afghan officials confirm IS recruitment in southern provinces
Afghan officials confirmed for the first time on Monday that the extremist Islamic State (IS) group is increasing its activity in the countrys southern provinces, recruiting fighters, flying black flags, and fighting Taliban militants (AP, BBC.
Inside the White House Fight Over the Slaughter in South Sudan
Last week, nearly eight months after the United States issued its first call for U.N. sanctions to rein in the warring parties in South Sudan, Washington sent a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Councils four other big powers ��� Britain, China.
Europe Cracks Down
In Belgium this week, police were able to stop a large-scale plot before it happened, but they could not stop the lone actor who killed four at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May 2014, despite the fact that the perpetrator in that case was, again.
Kim Kardashian shares throwback snap from her ice skating days
Meanwhile, it was a day of nostalgia for the star, as she also took to Instagram to reminisce of times she had a more slender silhouette. The mother-of-one shared another Throwback Thursday snap of her and her sister Kourtney, saying, Since its award .
The Death of Ukraines Cyborg Army
For Obama to be right, and for America to be successfully leading the way to a free, peaceful, and democratic Ukraine, it stands to reason that Putin would have to be on the back foot and growing less belligerent by the day.. 11, just days after the.
Oleg Kashins Horrible Truth | Foreign Policy
By the time Moscow woke up to the news on Saturday, Kashin was already in an artificially induced coma.. The thing that bothers me is that at the moment of the beating, they broke his fingers, the editor in chief said in a radio interview.. The chopping down of the Khimki forest to make room for a highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg has exactly those interests behind it: It was being financed by Arkady Rotenberg, Vladimir Putins judo buddy, and Putin��.
Inside China: China lauds Facebooks blocking of dissidents account
But Global Times went further, turning Facebooks move into a general indictment against Western criticism of Chinas comprehensive censorship and a universal endorsement of the regimes suppression of the free flow of information. ���Blocking [Facebook] .
FPs Situation Report: UN efforts to supply aid to Syrians fall short; Putin.
The Guardians Anna Nemtsova and Luke Harding on a Putin dissenter: ���The Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was arrested on Tuesday after breaking house arrest to join an opposition rally in Moscow, hours after a court gave him a suspended sentence for.
Jennifer Lawrence is yet to meet Gwyneth Paltrow
While the actor shares two children with Gwyneth, he is putting off introducing her to his new love. Chris hasnt wanted them to meet yet, a friend of Jennifers told Us Weekly. Gwyneth and Chris are co-parenting without Jen involved for now.
The Draft Dodgers of Ukraine | Foreign Policy
Desperate for manpower in its standoff with pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, which has lasted some 10 months and killed at least 5,600, the Ukrainian military early this year reinstituted a general draft, giving itself the power to conscript. Days later, President Petro Poroshenko announced that the security service had ���detained 19 active critics of mobilization��� for their ���anti-Ukrainian activity... ���Im planning to leave country for a time, until this war ends,��� he said.
Five thoughts on Taiwans elections | - Foreign Policy
Daud Khattak is a Pakistani journalist currently working as a senior editor of Radio Mashaal for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague. He has worked with Pakistans English dailies The News and Daily Times,��.
Taiwans relations with China: Strait of alarm | The Economist
I feel sorry that most comments insist on unjustified fear of opening to competition AND OPPORTUNITIES from trading with the rest of the world, including China.. So far, Mas attempt to hurt the student protesters has brought a lot of criticism from the international community.. Would you also do interviews with student leaders or scholars who have voiced their concerns over the cross-strait trade deal loudly after you gave Mr. Ma a chance to spread propaganda?