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Rescuers pray near the bodies of victims from the TransAsia plane crash Friday. The turboprop crashed shortly after take-off from Songshan Airport in Taipei, hitting an elevated roadway as it banked steeply away from buildings and into the Keelung River.

Pilots Of Doomed Taipei Flight Faced Problems With Both Engines

Feb 06, 2015
Investigators say the turboprop plane's right engine lost thrust 37 seconds into the flight, and that the left one failed to restart not long afterwards.
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The Two-Way
President Obama bows his head towards the Dalai Lama as he was recognized during the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, on Thursday.

Obama Condemns 'Horrific Acts' In The Name Of Religion

Feb 05, 2015
The president said that God never justifies the killing of innocent people. He also referred to the Dalai Lama, who attended the National Prayer Breakfast for the first time, as his "good friend."
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The Two-Way
The mangled fuselage of a TransAsia Airways commercial plane is dragged to the river bank after it crashed in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday.

Toll In Taiwan Crash Rises To 31; Pilot Called In 'Engine Flameout'

Feb 05, 2015
TransAsia Flight 235 was carrying 58 people, 31 of them from China, when it crashed into the shallow Keelung River in Taipei shortly after takeoff on Wednesday.
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The Two-Way
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou meets with family members of a passenger who died in a TransAsia Airways plane crash, at a funeral parlor in Taipei on Thursday.

Pilot In Deadly Taiwan Crash Hailed As A Hero

Feb 05, 2015
The TransAsia Flight 235 crashed into a shallow river on Wednesday, killing at least 31 people. Taipei's mayor said the pilot had narrowly avoided buildings and likely more casualties.
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Goats and Soda

Dude, Why Is There A Cow In The Back Of Your Cab?

Feb 05, 2015
Author Chris Guillebeau has visited every U.N.-recognized country in the world. He's seen taxi-riding cows, a Mongolian version of Uber and a strong entrepreneurial spirit in the poorest of places.
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The Two-Way
Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner during their talks in Beijing on Wednesday. In a tweet she sent out today, Kirchner appeared to mock Chinese speech.

Argentina's President, During Visit To China, Mocks Chinese Speech In Tweet

Feb 04, 2015
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner appeared to suggest the Chinese have trouble pronouncing their R's and L's — using the words "rice," "petroleum" and "Campora" as examples.
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Asia

Critics Say Abe's 'Interventionism' Made Japan A Target For ISIS

Feb 04, 2015
The beheading of two Japanese nationals by ISIS has created political problems for Japanese President Shinzo Abe back home, from those who blame his rollback of Japanese pacifist policies in place after World War II.
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This picture taken on Jan. 27, 2015 shows a seized cat in one of the cages being transported in a truck in Hanoi.

Thousands Of Cats Destined For Vietnamese Tables Are Buried Instead

Feb 04, 2015

Even though eating cats is banned, "little tiger" remains a delicacy. Many are sourced from China and smuggled over the border.

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The Two-Way
Rescue teams work to free people Wednesday from a TransAsia Airways ATR 72-600 turboprop airplane that crashed into the Keelung River shortly after takeoff from Taipei Songshan Airport in Taiwan.

TransAsia Plane Crashes Into Taiwan River; More Than A Dozen Dead

Feb 04, 2015
Many of the 58 people on board remain unaccounted for after the twin-engine turboprop plane rolled and clipped an elevated roadway just after takeoff.
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Goats and Soda
A bride and groom dance at a wedding. Of course, all the guests will join in.

You May Think You Can't Dance But Nepalis Will Make You Try

Feb 03, 2015
Our Peace Corps correspondent discovers that Nepal is a country where everyone dances all the time. And you have no choice but to bust a move.
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Parallels
Some DVD vendors in Shanghai still sell on the street, but a government crackdown forced most out of business or into storefronts.

The Oscar Nominees Are In; The Shanghai DVD Sellers Are Stocking Up

Feb 03, 2015
The Academy Awards are coming this month, and if you're still trying to see all the nominated films, it may be easier to find them in China than in the U.S. — if you don't mind the pirated versions.
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Goats and Soda

Why Cambodians Never Get 'Depressed'

Feb 02, 2015
In many parts of the world, there's no direct translation for terms like depression or anxiety. Cambodians, for example, say "the water in my heart has fallen." So how does a doctor refill a heart?
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Goats and Soda
Mindy Kaling and the author agree: A cloak of invisibility has advantages.

Mindy Kaling's Super Bowl Ad: Are Indian Women Invisible?

Feb 02, 2015
In a commercial, the comedian pretends no one can see her. One Indian journalist wonders if there's more to the ad than selling insurance.
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Parallels
Shazia and Ziaullah Khan's baby boy was stolen from a hospital ward in Islamabad, Pakistan.

The Theft Of An Infant Son: In Pakistan, A Not-Uncommon Crime

Feb 02, 2015
Shazia Zia's newborn baby boy was taken from a maternity ward less than a day after she gave birth in Islamabad, and the family, hospital authorities and police officials disagree over who's to blame.
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The Two-Way
Thousands of pro-democracy activists on Sunday take part in a democracy march to Central, demanding universal suffrage in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong's Pro-Democracy Activists Stage New Protest

Feb 01, 2015
Organizers say 13,000 showed up for the rally, far fewer than had joined previous protests against China's insistence on hand-picking candidates for the territory's next chief executive.
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The Two-Way

Video Appears To Show Beheading Of Japanese Hostage Kenji Goto

Jan 31, 2015
The SITE Intelligence group has acquired footage that appears to show the execution of the Japanese journalist a week after another Japanese hostage was killed by the so-called Islamic State.
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Middle East

Efforts To Free Japanese ISIS Captive 'Deadlocked'

Jan 31, 2015
A top Japanese diplomat says indirect negotiations to free a captive journalist from the militant Islamic State group have reached a "state of deadlock."
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The Two-Way
In Aug. 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and businessman and billionaire Arkady Rotenberg,(right) mourn during a farewell ceremony for Putin's first judo coach, Anatoly Rakhlin, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Close Friend Of Putin Awarded Contract For Crimea Bridge

Jan 30, 2015
The span, to be built across a narrow strait that separates Russia from the newly annexed peninsula, is pegged at $3 billion and scheduled for completion by the end of 2018.
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The Two-Way
Jeremy the Koala.

Jeremy The Koala, Rescued From Australian Brush Fire, Goes Home

Jan 30, 2015
The animal had suffered burns to his paws in the blaze that swept through the Adelaide area earlier this month. After a full recovery, he has been released back into the wild.
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The Two-Way
Pakistani protesters in Karachi condemn a bombing at a Shiite mosque in Shikarpur on Friday.

Bomb Attack On Shiite Mosque In Pakistan Leaves At Least 55 Dead

Jan 30, 2015
Jundullah, a Sunni militant group with links to the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack on the mosque in Shikarpur, Sindh province.
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The Two-Way
A Chinese paramilitary police officer stands in front a portrait of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong outside the Forbidden City in Beijing, in November.

China Cracks Down On University Textbooks Promoting 'Western Values'

Jan 30, 2015
Education Minister Yuan Guiren says the country's institutions of higher learning should stop using textbooks that criticize China's leaders and political system.
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Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena waves to supporters shortly after his election earlier this month. Sirisena looks to be trying to turn a new page in the island nation, which defeated a protracted insurgency in 2009.

Sri Lanka Plans Probe Into Alleged Atrocities During Civil War

Jan 29, 2015
The country's new government says it is thinking of a new investigation into reports of extrajudicial killings in the closing chapter of the island nation's 26-year civil war.
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Parallels
Some fake Apple stores like this one in Kunming, in China's southwestern Yunnan province, were so authentic-looking that even some of their employees didn't know they were fake.

China Continues To Push The (Fake) Envelope

Jan 28, 2015
A fake bank in Nanjing bilked customers out of nearly $33 million. With trappings of a real bank, like security guards and LED screens, it fooled depositors attracted by higher interest rates.
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Naimah Aziz, an inspector with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, searches for illegally trafficked wildlife items passing through the cargo area at New York's JFK airport. Here she holds the horns of an argali, an endangered mountain sheep from Central

Tiger Skins And Rhino Horns: Can A Trade Deal Halt The Trafficking?

Jan 28, 2015
A proposed U.S.-Asia trade pact calls for incorporating the issue wildlife trafficking. The goal is to slow the poaching of endangered animals such as elephants, tigers and rhinos.
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Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi talk in New Delhi. Obama's visit to Pakistan's much larger, more prosperous neighbor was destined to grate on Pakistani nerves.

Pakistanis View Obama's India Visit With A Touch Of Irritation

Jan 27, 2015
Obama's trip to India has prompted Pakistanis to leaf back through their visitors' book with an aggrieved eye, and reinforced their view that U.S. policy tends toward cynical pragmatism.

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