2008-07-05 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, July 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. investor Jim Rogers has said that the decline in known oil reserves across the world is the main reason behind the skyrocketing oil prices that have already topped 14

2008-07-04 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Israel closed its border crossings with the Gaza Strip again on Thursday following a rocket attack from the Hamas-ruled enclave, further straining the shaky truce. Th

2008-07-04 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, July 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. employers cut their payrolls by 62,000 in June, the sixth straight month of nationwide job losses, as fears of a recession have grown, the Labor Department reported

2008-07-03 所属栏目:欧美文化

TOKYO, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks closed lower Wednesday for 10 straight trading days. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average shrank 176.83 points, or 1.31 percent, from Tuesday to 13,286.37.

2008-07-03 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, July 2 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush acknowledged the challenge facing the U.S. military in Afghanistan Wednesday, saying June is a "tough month" there. Speaking

2008-07-02 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is at the top of the vice presidential prospect list for Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee,

2008-07-02 所属栏目:欧美文化

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, July 1 (Xinhua) -- The 11th African Union (AU) summit closed here Tuesday after African leaders discussed the impact of soaring food prices, the situation in Zimbabwe, and how

2008-07-01 所属栏目:欧美文化

MADRID, June 30 (Xinhua) -- The President of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) rejected a call on Monday to set any price band control in face of relentless rise of world oil pr

2008-07-01 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, June 30 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush signed a war funding bill worth 162 billion U.S. dollars on Monday, the last one in his tenure. The bill will cover war expenses in Ir

2008-06-30 所属栏目:欧美文化

HARARE, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was sworn in for a new five-year term in office on Sunday, after being declared winner of Friday's presidential run-off poll. He overw

2008-06-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

ISLAMABAD, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani security forces on Saturday launched a major operation against a militant group in a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan and destroyed several of its center

2008-06-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Oil prices broke the 140 U.S. dollars level for the first time this week, with August crude surging near 143 dollars a barrel on both New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)

2008-06-28 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Crude futures set a new record high of near 143 U.S. dollars a barrel Friday as the weakening dollar and tumbling stock market sent more investors into commodity market.

2008-06-28 所属栏目:欧美文化

KHANTY-MANSIYSK, Russia, June 27 (Xinhua) -- The Russia-EU summit concluded Friday in Russia's West Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk, with the issuing of a joint statement saying that Russia and the

2008-06-28 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Two former rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination appeared on the same campaign stage in a New Hampshire town named Unity on Friday afternoon to show their &

2008-06-27 所属栏目:欧美文化

PYONGYANG, June 26 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) submitted the long-waited declaration of its nuclear inventory to China, the chair of the six-party talks, Thursday.

2008-06-27 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, June 26 (Xinhua) -- A latest poll released on Thursday showed that U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was leading his Republican rival John McCain in four battleground sta

2008-06-26 所属栏目:欧美文化

GENEVA, June 25 (Xinhua) -- The European Union will continue to pursue a "duel strategy" of negotiations and sanctions on Iran's nuclear activity, the EU's foreign policy chief Javier Sola

2008-06-26 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve decided Wednesday to hold a key interest rate steady at 2 percent in highlighting inflation risks. The Federal Open Market Committee, the F

2008-06-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, June 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. former President Bill Clinton vowed on Tuesday to help Barack Obama, who beat his wife, Hillary, in the Democratic presidential nomination race, to win the bid for

2008-06-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

BRUSSELS, June 24 (Xinhua) -- World oil prices will not come down and oil producers have done what they could to ensure supply, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) president said

2008-06-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

MANILA, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Philippine authorities said Monday they are sending divers to drill a hole on the hull of the capsized ferry, M/V Princess of the Stars, to get out passengers who might tra

2008-06-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, June 23 (Xinhua) -- The number of foreign banks in China may rise to 100 by 2011 from 76 at present, Pricewaterhouse Coopers reported in a new survey released Monday. In a poll of 42 fore

2008-06-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

BRUSSELS, June 23 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) approved new sanctions against Iran on Monday over the country's nuclear program, which Tehran has repeatedly said is for civilian purposes only.

2008-06-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Belarussian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko has pledged to enhance bilateral relations, while the two post-Soviet countries are s