2009-08-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The United States is proud to support the Afghan people to conduct their presidential election, and will remain impartial in the election, said U.S. Secretary of State

2009-08-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street plunged on Monday amid global sell-off, as investors around the world feared the recent rally of equities had outpaced the prospects for economic growth.

2009-08-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Oil prices expended its losses on Monday as global equities fell and the dollar strengthened against a basket of major currencies. Light, sweet crude for September de

2009-08-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

KABUL, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who is seeking re-election, attended the first ever televised debate on Sunday with rival candidates Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and Ramadan Bashard

2009-08-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

TEHRAN, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that the defeated Western countries attempt to establish ties with Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported. "The d

2009-08-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

PYONGYANG, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed to resume tourism projects on Mt. Kumgang and Kaesong with South Korean Hyundai Group and allow land passage thr

2009-08-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, Aug. 17 -- Sun Qin, deputy director of the National Energy Administration (NEA), has been appointed general manager of China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) to replace Kang Rixin, who was

2009-08-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Israel's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanded by one percent in the second quarter of 2009, a sign that the country's economy might be emerging from recession, a repo

2009-08-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- China Iron and Steel Association (CISA)reached an agreement for the July-December iron ore import price of fine ores for 94 U.S. cents per dry metric tonne unit with Anglo

2009-08-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) Saturday denied involvement in a bribery case of a U.S. firm, which admitted to the U.S. authority it had bribed some Chine

2009-08-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

HONG KONG, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- After four consecutive quarters of contraction, real gross domestic product of Hong Kong saw 3.3 percent growth in the second quarter, official figures released Friday i

2009-08-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

HELSINKI, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Finland's National Bureau of Investigation (NIB) said that a ransom demand has been received for the missing cargo ship, the Arctic Sea, according to local media report

2009-08-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- One of the 81 new members elected to the Revolutionary Council of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party is a Jerusalem-born Jew called Uri Davis,

2009-08-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday condemned "in the strongest possible terms" a suicide car bomb attack in central Kabul, the Afghan capital, voicing his

2009-08-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Despite its willingness to engage Pyongyang, the United States will continue to exert sanctions to make the regime pay a "significant price" for its provocative behavio

2009-08-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

GAZA, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- After eight-hour armed fighting between Gaza ruling Hamas security forces and militants of a pro-al-Qaida group in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Friday,16 people w

2009-08-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Friday to boost bilateral economic ties amid the global econo

2009-08-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, Aug. 14-- China will continue its policy of subsidizing farmers' purchase of automobiles in a bid to spur vehicle sales, as part of the government's concerted efforts to stimulate domestic

2009-08-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

BERLIN, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- The supervisory boards of German carmakers Volkswagen and Porsche on Thursday both ratified a merger deal between the two companies. Under the agreement, Volkswagen wil

2009-08-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO,Aug. 13 (Xinhua)-- U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co. announced Thursday that it is boosting third-quarter production in North America by another 10,000 units to meet increased demand for its vehic

2009-08-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

BRUSSELS, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) on Thursday stepped up sanctions against Myanmar by adding members of the judiciary responsible for the verdict of Aung San Suu Kyi to the existin

2009-08-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates hinted Thursday that it's still possible for Washington to send additional troops to Afghanistan beyond what President Barack Obama

2009-08-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- A South Korean worker was freed on Thursday from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) after being detained in the territory for 137 days. CHRONOLOGY Yu Seon

2009-08-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

OTTAWA, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Canada has sent a surveillance plane to waters off its East Coast to monitor a pair of nuclear-powered Russian submarines in the area, military officials said Wednesday.

2009-08-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Obama administration remains unsettled on where to detain the prisoners now at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility after the prison closes in January, The Miami H