2009-04-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, April 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Friday said the deterioration of world economy and trade has "eased," but warned it is too early to conclude that a real re

2009-04-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

JOHANNESBURG, April 23 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) on Thursday evening seemed set to retain its two-thirds majority as, with roughly half of votes counted, its score cr

2009-04-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Iraq was rocked by two suicide bombings which killed 76 people and wounded some 120 others on Thursday as the security forces announced the capture of a suspected top lea

2009-04-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, April 23 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank said on Thursday that it will increase infrastructure investments to 45 billion dollars over the next three years to provide the foundation for rapid re

2009-04-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

SAN FRANCISCO, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft Corp. on Thursday posted a nearly 6-percent drop of sales in its third fiscal quarter, which missed analysts' expectations and also marked the first time

2009-04-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, April 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that his administration will push for strong and reliable protections for credit card consumers. "We want to preserve

2009-04-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, April 21 (Xinhua) -- A Somali man accused of being the only surviving pirate in the hijacking of United States cargo ship the Maersk Alabama appeared in a federal court in Lower Manhattan, N

2009-04-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, April 21 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday softened his tone on the possibility to prosecute officials who were behind harsh interrogation tactics. Obama has been put und

2009-04-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

JOHANNESBURG, April 21 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's ruling party African National Congress (ANC) is almost certain to win the April 22 election, but it still faces the biggest challenge since coming to

2009-04-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Losses from the credit crisis are still mounting, the global economic downturn is still deepening, and still more is needed to pull the world out of recession ... The In

2009-04-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Caterpillar Inc. posted its first quarterly net loss since 1992 on Tuesday mainly due to lower sales caused by the economic crisis and a huge amount of layoff costs.

2009-04-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

GENEVA, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday strongly criticized Israel's treatment of Palestinians and U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, associating them with ra

2009-04-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

BANGKOK, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Monday that he won't negotiate with the convicted former prime minister Thaksin shinawatra in a bid to end the political un

2009-04-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Russia's envoy to NATO said Monday the NATO-Russia meeting between military officers may be canceled if the alliance continued to hold drills in Georgia, the Interfax new

2009-04-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street tumbled Monday after a six-week rally with all major indexes dropping more than 3 percent on financial concerns. Bank of America Corp. said Monday that its f

2009-04-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, April 20 (Xinhua) -- General Motors Corp. (GM) announced Monday that it would cut 1,600 white-collar workers this week as a step to cut costs that could help the automaker qualify for more go

2009-04-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft is planning to invest around 300 million U.S. dollars in several Russian projects over the next three years, said the company's CEO Steve Ballmer here on Monday

2009-04-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM, April 19 (Xinhua) -- A series of medical tests of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert underwent in the United States showed that his prostate cancer is deteriorating, local news servi

2009-04-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 19 (Xinhua)-- U.S. President Barack Obama said here on Sunday that he has seen "potential positive signs" in U.S. relations with Cuba and Venezuela in the pas

2009-04-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 19 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Sunday that the United States wants to be an "effective partner" of Central America and he is willing to learn

2009-04-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama, who is here for a regional summit, is "deeply disappointed" by Iran's sentencing of an American-Iranian journalis

2009-04-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOGADISHU, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Somali pirates attacked two more vessels on Saturday in the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa country, seizing a Belgian dredger but thwarted in an attempt to hold a

2009-04-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday continued to use soft diplomacy to win back Latin American countries who have long been suspicious abou

2009-04-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

TIANJIN, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Construction of the Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone, a key project of the Forum on China-African Cooperation, is expected to be finished around 2018, a Chinese s

2009-04-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

BELGRADE, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Serbia submitted on Friday a motion on Kosovo to the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ), including legal documents contesting the legality of the Kosovo