2009-12-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

KABUL, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Taliban militants have intensified activities amid the visit of Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, to Afghanistan as over a dozen policemen hav

2009-12-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here Monday that climate is "a leading political and economic problem" and "it's time to act" to respond to the problem.

2009-12-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street refreshed the highs of 2009 on Monday as Abu Dhabi provided a 10-billion-U.S.-dollar bailout to Dubai while Exxon Mobil is to acquire XTO Energy for 31 billio

2009-12-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

BRUSSELS, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- The employment rate in the eurozone went down by 0.5 percent in the third quarter of 2009 compared with the previous quarter, first estimates of the official EU statistic

2009-12-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

SANTIAGO, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chileans cast ballots in election centers across the country on Sunday in the general elections to choose their president and members of the Congress. The general ele

2009-12-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- The United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have reached an understanding on relaunching the four-party framework to negotiate a permanent peace

2009-12-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

ROME, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was attacked, injured in the face by a protester and hospitalized shortly after a political meeting in Milan on Sunday evening. Berlu

2009-12-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senate passed on Sunday a 1.1-trillion-U.S. dollars spending package for fiscal year 2010, except for the Defense Department. The Democratic-controlled Senate

2009-12-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

TEHRAN, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday that Iran is ready to exchange low-grade enriched uranium for 20 percent enriched uranium on its southern island o

2009-12-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama on Saturday discussed the drafting of a new nuclear weapons cuts treaty in a telephone conversation,

2009-12-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Tens of thousands of climate activists from different countries rallied in central Copenhagen on Saturday to highlight the need for sealing a "real deal" in the UN-led

2009-12-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed on Friday the most sweeping financial regulatory overhaul in more than 70 years, a crucial step for one of the Obama administra

2009-12-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- An overwhelming majority of countries at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen want the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol, the head of the UN Framework Convention on

2009-12-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

ANKARA, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Turkish Constitutional Court, the country's top court, decided on Friday to ban the Democratic Society Party (DTP) on charges of its ties with the illegal Kurdish Workers

2009-12-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- The world's leading energy companies won rights to develop two major oil fields in Iraq at an auction on Friday. Royal Dutch Shell and Malaysia's Petronas were award

2009-12-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Kyoto Protocol must and will survive the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen, Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Cha

2009-12-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The deployment of 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, ordered by President Barack Obama, will begin next week, the Pentagon said on Thursday. The first ba

2009-12-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

OSLO, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday accepted his controversial Nobel Peace Prize "with deep gratitude and great humility" while acknowledging his few accomplishments and

2009-12-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street extended gains on Thursday, with most of the major sectors trading in positive territory, as improving economic data outweighed the stronger dollar. At Thursd

2009-12-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, Dec. 10 (Xinhua)-- The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) Thursday said it would hold bank interest rates at 0.5 percent. This is the ninth month in a row that interest rat

2009-12-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. federal budget deficit totaled 120.3 billion dollars in November, reported the Treasury Department on Thursday. The deficit was less than analysts' expect

2009-12-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama tapped nearly 600 million U.S. dollars Wednesday from the 787-billion-dollar economic stimulus package to improve 85 community hospitals nati

2009-12-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Russia and the United States are to soon strike a successor deal to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START-1) that expired last week, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

2009-12-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of Jewish settlers and their supporters rallied in Jerusalem on Wednesday night in protest of a government-announced temporary construction restraint on West Ba

2009-12-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday called for bipartisan cooperation on his newly-launched job-creating plan in a obviously divided political sentiment. "It's no