2008-02-27 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM -- Iran could conceivably develop a "nuclear option" within two years, Major General Amos Yadlin, head of the Intelligence Branch of Israel Defense Forces (IDF), warned in a briefi

2008-02-26 所属栏目:欧美文化

VIENNA, Austria -- The UN nuclear monitoring agency presented documents Monday that diplomats said indicate Iran may have focused on a nuclear weapons program after 2003 -- the year that a US intellig

2008-02-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

The U.S. will probably experience slower economic growth rather than a deeper downturn, predicts Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher. The most likely scenario is the U.S. will

2008-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

The incidence of smoking-related diseases has sharply decreased after France enacted tough anti-smoking laws, the Health Ministry said in a report released Saturday. According to the report, the i

2008-02-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

Oil prices drove higher Friday after Turkey launched a military offensive in northern Iraq, raising concerns about crude-oil supplies, traders said.New York's main contract, light sweet crude for del

2008-02-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS - Britain and France said on Thursday they hope the UN Security Council will vote next week on a revised sanctions resolution against Iran over its atomic program, which the West fears

2008-02-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

SEOUL -- South Korean special prosecutor on Thursday cleared President-elect Lee Myung-bak in corruption investigation, according to official media. Chung Ho-young, the special prosecutor appointed by

2008-02-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

Microsoft is not privately bargaining with web portal giant Yahoo over its rejected US$31-per-share buyout offer for the Sunnyvale-based company, according to media reports Tuesday.
This file photo sh

2008-02-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said Monday that Serbia has recalled its ambassador to the United States.Kostunica said at a special parliament session that the Serbian government

2008-02-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Oliver Dulic Sunday called on Serbian citizens to preserve peace and not to react to provocations, the official Tanjug news agency reported.
I appeal to everyone

2008-02-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

Moscow -- Russia said Saturday that US military plans to shoot down a damaged spy satellite may be a veiled test of America's missile defense system.
US Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Gen. James Cartwrig

2008-02-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

ISLAMABAD - Another suspect admitted his involvement in the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto before the court of Rawalpindi on Friday.The suspect Abdul Rashid who was ar

2008-02-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON -- Using words like "sluggish" and "deteriorated," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a starkly pessimistic assessment of the nation's economy on Thursday and s

2008-02-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW DELHI -- Emerging economies like India are not insulated from the impact of a slowdown in the United States, an International Monetary Fund official said, according to the local newspaper the Hind

2008-02-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM -- Israel announced plans Tuesday to build more than 1,000 homes in disputed east Jerusalem, infuriating the Palestinians and triggering a new crisis in already troubled peace talks.
A new h

2008-02-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON - Russian bomber aircraft approached a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific on Saturday and were intercepted by American fighter jets, a US defense official said on Monday.
A Russian TU-95 bo

2008-02-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

DILI - East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta is undergoing surgery at an Australian military base in the capital Dili after being shot in the stomach during an attack on his home by rebel soldiers, a

2008-02-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

AUGUSTA - Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in Maine presidential caucuses Sunday, grabbing a majority of delegates as the state's Democrats overlooked the snowy weather and turned out in

2008-02-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama swept Democratic presidential contests in three states on Saturday, striking the latest blows in a bruising back-and-forth battle with Hillary Clinton for the party's nomina

2008-02-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

BATON ROUGE - A nursing student shot two women to death and killed herself in front of horrified classmates at a college in the southern US state of Louisiana on Friday, police said.
A nursing student

2008-02-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON - The US Senate passed an economic stimulus package on Thursday to fend off a possible recession and House leaders said they would act soon to send the measures to President George W. Bush.

2008-02-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO/LONDON - Variations in a gene helped shield adults who had endured child abuse from becoming depressed as adults, US researchers said on Monday in a study that helps explain how nature and nur

2008-02-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Tuesday said that probe by the United Nations could unearth the "hidden hands" behind former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination.PPP

2008-02-05 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON - Buoyed by cheering crowds and bolstered by more than $1.3 million a day in TV ads, Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton raced through the final hours of a Super Tuesday campa

2008-02-04 所属栏目:欧美文化

St. Louis - US Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were locked in a near dead heat two days before the biggest presidential voting so far while John McCain tried to nail down the Republican nom