2011-12-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

GENEVA, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- The three-day Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (MC8) ended here on Saturday with overwhelming voices from trade ministers urging members to refrain fr

2011-12-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

The U.S. Senate has passed a compromise measure that extends payroll tax cuts for American workers for another two months.Lawmakers in the upper house of Congress overwhelmingly passed the legislation

2011-12-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

GENEVA, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- A ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization in Geneva formally adopted the accession agreement of the Russia Federation, drawing a finishing line for the country

2011-12-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

The Italian government has overwhelmingly won a crucial parliamentary vote of confidence Friday over an austerity package intended to help the third largest economy in the eurozone get its finances in

2011-12-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

BASE IMAM ALI, Iraq, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. military handed over its last base in Iraq to the Iraqi authorities on Friday, a day after the U.S. force marked the end of its mission in the country

2011-12-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

The U.S. military has formally ended its mission in Iraq. At a ceremony in Baghdad, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta watched as American troops lowered their command's flag, marking an end to the

2011-12-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

U.S. President Barack Obama says the federal government should not shut down because Congress cannot agree on a tax issue.In Washington Thursday, the president pressed lawmakers to extend the payroll

2011-12-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

Russia says it is ready to commit more than $10 billion to the International Monetary Fund to help support the struggling eurozone economy.President Dmitry Medvedev made the pledge Thursday in Brussel

2011-12-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

A leading ally of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has resigned as speaker of the country's parliament.Boris Gryzlov announced his resignation Wednesday in a statement posted to the ruling Unite

2011-12-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says there are no easy or fast solutions to Europe's economic crisis, but the agreement by eurozone countries last week for more fiscal discipline was a good step.Merk

2011-12-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

European leaders took steps to deal with some of their long term financial problems at a summit in Brussels last week. But they are moving ahead without one of the continent's largest economies Brit

2011-12-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday defended his decision to veto a European Union proposal to provide an enforcement mechanism for fiscal discipline. He says the EU deal, which other membe

2011-12-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

A Moscow march to protest election fraud unexpectedly drew tens of thousands of people on Saturday. With 40 percent of Russian adults online, many say social media, including the Russian social networ

2011-12-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

Officials of the U.S. central bank say the economy has grown "moderately," and they kept the key interest rate steady at ultra-low levels, a range of zero to 0.25 percent, where it has been for about

2011-12-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

U.S. President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki say their countries will maintain strong security, diplomatic and economic ties after the last U.S. combat forces withdraw at the e

2011-12-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

The Occupy London protest site reached its 60th day Monday, running longer than its counterpart in New York did before it was dismantled. It now occupies three sites across the City of London - a cath

2011-12-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

Experts at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development say growth is slowing for major economies around the world. An OECD report Monday analyzes data gathered in October that is intend

2011-12-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

U.S. President Barack Obama says fixing the American economy could take years, calling it "a long term process."In a television interview to be broadcast on Sunday, Obama said the structural problems

2011-12-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday ordered an investigation into the allegations of electoral fraud during last week's parliamentary vote.The announcement came a day after tens of thousands

2011-12-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

U.S. military vacated an air base in Pakistan's southwest Sunday, meeting a December 11 deadline set by Islamabad in response to NATO's November 26 air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The

2011-12-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

U.S. President Barack Obama is pressing Republicans in Congress to approve his nominee Richard Cordray to head the first ever consumer guardian agency.During his weekly address Saturday, Obama urged l

2011-12-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

Protesters came out across the world’s largest country to demand clean elections and to say what, only one week ago, was unsayable. “Russia Without Putin” was the favorite chant of thousands of dem

2011-12-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Ford Motor Co. said Friday it is recalling more than 128,000 Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan sedans over concerns the wheel studs could crack and cause the wheels to separate

2011-12-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

Most members of the European Union agreed to a new deal Friday that is intended to address debt problems that have threatened the common euro currency and driven Europe into an economic crisis. The ag

2011-12-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

Analysts are saying the new EU treaty will leave the UK isolated within Europe. But how much of a done deal is it? Ireland is one of the 26 countries that has said it will push ahead with the treaty.