2009-08-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

KABUL, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Four U.S. soldiers were killed Thursday in a roadside bomb attack in western Afghanistan, NATO forces said. The four troops "died after their vehicle struck an improvised

2009-08-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Sonia Sotomayor's historic nomination as the justice on Supreme Court. After month-long hearings and debates over her nominati

2009-08-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street fell on Thursday as investors turned cautious prior to a U.S. government report on July employment. The U.S. Labor Department said on Thursday that initial

2009-08-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- The largest U.S. automaker General Motors Co. (GM) will introduce a plug-in hybrid Buick crossover vehicle in 2011, the company said Thursday. Tom Stephens, GM vice cha

2009-08-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama announced Wednesday 48 new advanced battery and electric drive projects that will receive 2.4 billion U.S. dollars in funding under the Ameri

2009-08-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

KABUL, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The new Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Wednesday ruled out the military alone as solution to Afghan imbroglio. "W

2009-08-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's top auto adviser Ron Bloom said Wednesday that he believes Chrysler Group LLC would not become a public company until at least 2011. Ron Bloo

2009-08-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The two female American journalists who had been freed earlier by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) returned to the United States on Wednesday. Laur

2009-08-05 所属栏目:欧美文化

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on Tuesday praised the ongoing peaceful resistance in his country to the government that forced him from office. At a joint

2009-08-05 所属栏目:欧美文化

PYONGYANG, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- The two American female journalists captured on March 17 and sentenced to 12 years of "labor reform" in June by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(DPRK) were gran

2009-08-05 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. home prices made their first monthly climb in nearly three years, which may provide relief to the embattled housing sector after last year's price plunge sent the

2009-08-05 所属栏目:欧美文化

PYONGYANG, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), met with visiting U.S. former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday, the official central televi

2009-08-04 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- As delegates of Palestinian Fatah movement gather in Bethlehem in the West Bank on Tuesday, they are writing a new chapter of Palestinian history. This week, the leading

2009-08-04 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appointed Lt. Gen. Andrei Shvaichenko as the new commander of the Strategic Missile Forces (SMF), the Kremlin said on Monday. The presi

2009-08-04 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday met with Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah, emir of Kuwait, at the White House, pledging to further cooperation with the gulf Arab coun

2009-08-04 所属栏目:欧美文化

TOKYO, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Panasonic Corp. said Monday it incurred a group net loss of 52.98 billion yen (558 million U.S. dollars) for the April-June quarter, in stark contrast from a profit of 73.03

2009-08-04 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- The three major U.S. automakers accounted for 47 percent of the first 80,000 "Cash for Clunkers" sales, the U.S. government said Monday. Through Saturday afternoon, the Nat

2009-08-03 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- The British government on Sunday rejected claims that its military mission in Afghanistan was undermined by a failure to provide the army force with clear direction. Bri

2009-08-03 所属栏目:欧美文化

ALMATY, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Russia-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is standing at a crossroads and Moscow is trying to transform the loose security alliance into a fully-fl

2009-08-03 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki paid a visit on Sunday to the northern Kurdish region to hold talks with Kurdish leaders over disputes of oil and land. Maliki arriv

2009-08-03 所属栏目:欧美文化

WARSAW, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- The European Investment Bank (EIB) has awarded Poland a 675-million-euro (945 million U.S. dollars) loan for the financing of research conducted by institutes and universiti

2009-08-02 所属栏目:欧美文化

NAIROBI, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- One person died on Saturday when a light aircraft crashed in Nairobi's residential estate, injuring three others on board. According to eyewitnesses, the Cessna 206 li

2009-08-02 所属栏目:欧美文化

TEHRAN, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Iran's state-owned al-Alam TV on Saturday confirmed that three U.S. nationals have been detained by Iranian forces near the border with Iraq. The Arabic-language satell

2009-08-02 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOGADISHU, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- The Somali parliament on Saturday overwhelmingly rejected a controversial maritime agreement signed between Somali government and Kenya last April. The Memorandum of Unde

2009-08-01 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, July 31 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Missile Defense Agency said on Friday that it successfully tested a sea-based missile defense system on Thursday night. A target missile was fired from Haw