2009-08-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday pledged that Russia would continue to provide financial assistance to Abkhazia, the breakaway Georgian region, as promise

2009-08-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO,Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- U.S. auto dealers continue to submit more than 20,000 "cash for clunkers" deals to the Transportation Department daily, reports reaching here said Wednesday. As of Wedn

2009-08-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that the U.S. economic activity is "leveling out," and decided to keep a key interest rate unchanged at a record low of betwe

2009-08-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

PARIS, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Iran released a French embassy employee on Tuesday but still kept detaining a young French academic, who are both on charges related to post-election protests in Iran, Frenc

2009-08-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Obama administration on Tuesday announced that the United States will exert sanctions on the Korea Kwangson Banking Corp (KKBC) for providing financial services to

2009-08-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that there are no special signs of imminent escalation of tensions along the border between Israel and Lebanon.

2009-08-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street tumbled on Tuesday due to a dive of financial stocks as investors awaited the U.S. Federal Reserve's two-day meeting on key interest rates. The financial

2009-08-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

ISLAMABAD, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Hakimullah Mehsud, main spokesman for Pakistani Taliban, Monday phoned to journalists and said Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud is alive and that he will present proofs to

2009-08-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

GUADALAJARA, MEXICO, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- The three North American nations have agreed to push for a green fund to reward nations that cut carbon emissions, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon said on

2009-08-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- At least 49 people were killed and 260 wounded in a series of deadly bomb attacks across Iraq on Monday, raising fear for a return of sectarian bloodshed between Sunni and

2009-08-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- The prevailing global financial crisis needed two years to recover genuinely, an expert said here on Monday. Paul Krugman, economy professor from Prince Universit

2009-08-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in Guadalajara, Mexico on Sunday by Air Force One to attend the Fifth North American Leaders' Summit, during which he will

2009-08-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

TEHRAN, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that his government will severely punish bullying powers, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday. The new government

2009-08-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Seven bodies have been recovered from mid-air collision between a sightseeing helicopter and a small plane over the Hudson River which killed nine a day ago, authorities s

2009-08-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

ISLAMABAD, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Firing reportedly occurred during a meeting of the banned group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leaders, and Hakmiullah Mehsud, the spokesman of the TTP, was killed, loca

2009-08-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

PARIS, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- The French government on Saturday called on Iran to release French academic Clotilde Reiss and an employee of the French Embassy in Tehran. "After the appearance of Cloti

2009-08-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- A helicopter and a small plane collided in the air and crashed into the Hudson River on the side of the U.S. state of New Jersey on Saturday, local media reported. Eye

2009-08-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

HONG KONG, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced Friday it has received 21,602 complaints up to Thursday concerning Lehman-Brothers-related products. Among them, 21,

2009-08-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

VANCOUVER, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Four residents in Canadian province of British Columbia (B.C.) were found to have conducted a "deliberate and well-organized " fraud that resulted in more than 800 invest

2009-08-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The United States declined on Friday to confirm reports that Baitullah Mehsud, Taliban chief in Pakistan, has likely been killed along with his wife and bodyguards in a

2009-08-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

TBILISI, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- A series of activities were held in Georgia on Friday to commemorate the first anniversary of its brief war with Russia last August. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashv

2009-08-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Three British soldiers from The Parachute Regiment were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday, according to a statement released by British Ministry of Defense on Friday. Th

2009-08-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The pace of job losses in the United States narrowed in July to 247,000 and the jobless rate fell unexpectedly to 9.4 percent, the Labor Department reported Friday.

2009-08-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

VANCOUVER, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Four residents in Canadian province of British Columbia (B.C.) were found to have conducted a "deliberate and well-organized " fraud that resulted in more than 800 invest

2009-08-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

HONG KONG, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced Friday it has received 21,602 complaints up to Thursday concerning Lehman-Brothers-related products. Among them, 21,