2010-07-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

BERLIN, July 24 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a stampede on Saturday at a music festival in western Germany's Duisburg city has risen to 18, with 16 people confirmed killed on the scene and two oth

2010-07-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

KABUL, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Two U.S. soldiers went missing in Logar province 60 km south of Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, locals said on Saturday."These two soldiers went missing since Friday from Ch

2010-07-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

BERLIN, July 24 (Xinhua) -- German President Christian Wulff on Saturday asked for "uncompromising" investigation into a deadly stampede that occurred earlier Saturday at the Love Parade in the wester

2010-07-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, July 24 (Xinhua) -- British Foreign Secretary William Hague on Saturday wrote to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, saying the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al- Megrahi from

2010-07-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Russia and the United States on Friday signed a statement that outlined key areas of cooperation over the next few years in line with the objectives set by the two countrie

2010-07-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

PARIS, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Recent unrest and violent riots against police forces hang a question mark on France's security system and triggered calls for a new strategy to fight against violence.Calm

2010-07-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

GENEVA, July 23 (Xinhua) -- At least one person died and 42 were injured after a tourist train derailed in southern Switzerland on Friday, the official swissinfo.ch news website reported.The last thre

2010-07-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. economy still faces strong headwinds despite some positive developments, the White House said on Friday.Primarily due to the 862-billion-dollar economic stimul

2010-07-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Russia and NATO have similar long-term interests in Afghanistan, Nikolai Makarov, the chief of staff of Russian Armed Forces, said Friday."Let us start with the situation i

2010-07-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, July 23 (Xinhua) -- British former Justice Secretary and current shadow Deputy Prime Minister Jack Straw on Friday refused an invite at last by a United States Senate committee to speak at an

2010-07-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

BRUSSELS, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) banking supervisors published results of the much-anticipated banks stress tests on Friday, showing only 7 out of a total of 91 European banks fai

2010-07-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei Technologies said Motorola's charges of stealing confidential information about its cellular network equipment is groundless, the C

2010-07-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

BRUSSELS, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) will unveil results of the bank stress tests later on Friday in a bid to assure investors who worry about the healthiness of Europe's banking sec

2010-07-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, July 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. federal budget deficit is expected to reach an all-time high of 1.47 trillion U.S. dollars this year, 84 billion dollars lower than projected in February, the Whit

2010-07-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

ATHENS, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou expressed confidence in the Greek banking sector Friday after the announcement of the results of stress tests on Greek banks.

2010-07-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street rose Friday on the results from European bank stress tests.The European Union (EU) said on Friday that seven European banks failed the stress tests conducted

2010-07-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

DAMASCUS, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al- Sadr told Xinhua Thursday that his meeting with the leader of Iraqi National Movement Ayad Allawi here was fruitful and productive.Syria h

2010-07-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

HANOI, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) told Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi here on Thursday that DPRK would like to maintain

2010-07-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

CARACAS, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Thursday that his country breaks off the diplomatic relations with Colombia."For dignity we do not have other option but to seve

2010-07-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, July 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into law the unemployment benefits extension bill, making millions of Americans who are out of work for six months or mor

2010-07-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

THE HAGUE, July 22 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations' hightest court said in a non-binding opinion Thursday that the 2008 Kosovo independence declaration does not violate general international law.While

2010-07-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS, July 22 (Xinhua) -- The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Thursday urged all sides to avoid any provocative steps after the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that the 2

2010-07-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, July 22 (Xinhua) -- General Motors Co. will pay 3.5 billion U.S. dollars to buy sub-prime lender AmeriCredit Corp. to expand its auto lending and leasing operations, GM announced in a stateme

2010-07-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

ADDIS ABABA, July 22 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCATD) said on Thursday that global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows bottomed out in the later half 2009

2010-07-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street rallied on Thursday as strong earnings and solid European economic data gave a boost to Wall Street.Caterpillar Inc., 3M Co., UPS Inc. and AT&T Inc. all toppe