2010-12-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to ratify a nuclear arms treaty with Russia, delivering President Barack Obama his top foreign policy goal as the lame- duck Congress

2010-12-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law a landmark bill allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military.Obama signed the "Don't Ask Don't

2010-12-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

ATHENS, Dec. 22 (Xinhua)-- Greek lawmakers are set to vote on the 2011 budget draft in the early hours of Thursday amid ongoing strikes and protests by labor unions over painful austerity measures and

2010-12-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- The relative quiet along the Israel-Gaza border that has prevailed since the Cast Lead operation faced its most severe threat to date on Tuesday morning when a Qassam ro

2010-12-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. stocks climbed on Wednesday to fresh two-year highs as new economic data showed more recovery signs.The Commerce Department released its final reading of GDP gro

2010-12-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

PARIS, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Government negotiators on behalf of the United States, Brazil, Canada, Japan and the European Union have agreed in principle on new terms for state financing to support the

2010-12-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

WELLINGTON, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Official figures showed New Zealand's gross domestic product (GDP), the broadest measure of the health of the economy, fell 0.2 percent in the third quarter.Statistics

2010-12-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange declined on Wednesday, as an increasing number of investors opted to cash in their holdings of gold,

2010-12-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Crude prices on Wednesday rose for the fourth straight day and hit its 26-month high as U.S. weekly crude oil inventories dropped by 5.3 million barrels last week and GDP

2010-12-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

BRUSSELS, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- It has been a tough year for the European Union (EU), which is mired in a sovereign debt crisis while struggling to emerge from the global financial crisis. As a result,

2010-12-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

ABIDJAN, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Cote d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo reiterated in a television speech that he is the country's president, media reports said on Tuesday.Meanwhile, Gbagbo's army lifted the

2010-12-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. population grew 9.7 percent over the last decade, the slowest growth since the 1930s, the Census Bureau said on Tuesday.As of April 1, 2010, the country's tot

2010-12-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- The UN Security Council area is being evacuated on Tuesday morning due to "unidentified odor," UN spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters here, adding the UN is working

2010-12-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Diplomats of Russia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) met here Tuesday and discussed possible measures to stabilize the situation on Korean peninsula.Du

2010-12-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Senate decided on Tuesday to bring full vote on a nuclear arms treaty with Russia, long sought by President Barack Obama and the Democrats.The Senate voted by

2010-12-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Good neighbor relations and true partnership are the future of Russian-Georgian relations, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.Putin made his remarks during

2010-12-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Crude prices on Tuesday climbed for the third straight day to near 90 U.S. dollars a barrel on higher demand expectation.Oil traders felt optimistic about U.S. economy gr

2010-12-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

TOKYO, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Japan's exports rose 9.1 percent in November from a year earlier, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said in a report on Wednesday, marking the 12th straight month of growth.The

2010-12-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

CANBERRA, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Latest data suggested on Wednesday that Australian economy continued to slow in October to a more moderate pace, but strong growth is tipped in early months of 2011.The W

2010-12-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

SYDNEY, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Assistant Governor Malcolm Edey has been elected chairman of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) committee on

2010-12-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve announced on Tuesday that it had authorized an extension of its temporary U.S. dollar liquidity swap arrangements with the Bank of Canada, the

2010-12-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange on Tuesday further hiked, as Fitch Ratings said it may lower its rating for Greece, fueling concern

2010-12-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

BISHKEK, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva announced on Monday a new government structure at the first government meeting, opening a new era for the precarious nation."The legitimat

2010-12-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

KIEV, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Charges were filed against former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Monday over alleged misuse of state funds during her tenure from 2007 to 2010, Tymoshenko's sp

2010-12-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

MINSK, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Sunday's presidential election was "honest, open and in accordance with national legislation," President Alexander Lukashenko said Monday after winning another term in offi