2007-11-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Washington issued invitations on Tuesday for a much-heralded Middle East peace conference in the United States next week that aims to jumpstart dormant Israeli-Palestinian peace

2007-11-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

New York - Wall Street resumed its slide Monday as investors absorbed a gloomy outlook for the banking sector as well as bleak news about housing. The major stock market indexes each fell more than 1.

2007-11-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

DONETSK, Ukraine -- At least 65 miners died and 35 were missing Sunday after a gas explosion ripped through one of Ukraine's main coal mines, the emergency situations ministry said.
Rescuers proceed

2007-11-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - In his opening address of a rare OPEC summit, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned the United States on Saturday that oil prices would further surge if the US contemplates an

2007-11-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW -- The upper house of Russia's parliament, the Federation Council, voted on Friday to approve Russia's suspension of compliance with the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, news agenc

2007-11-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

VIENNA, Austria -- A report from the UN nuclear watchdog agency on Thursday found Iran to be generally truthful about key aspects of its nuclear history, but it warned that its knowledge of Tehran's

2007-11-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

Miami - The US military's operating manual for the Guantanamo prison camp has been posted on the Internet, providing a glimpse of the broad rules and tiniest minutia for detaining suspected terrorist

2007-11-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK -- Wall Street shot higher Tuesday, lifting the Dow Jones industrials nearly 320 points after reassuring news from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. quelled some of the market

2007-11-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD -- A private security guard fatally shot an Iraqi taxi driver, Iraqi officials said Monday, in the latest incident involving what Iraqis believe are unprovoked killings by contractors hired to

2007-11-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Sunday suicide attacks and other bombings in the Iraqi capital have dropped dramatically since last year's high, calling it a sign of the end of s

2007-11-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON -- US President George W. Bush said on Saturday that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's promises to hold elections and to take off his uniform are "positive steps.""I do

2007-11-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

New York - Wall Street finished a turbulent week with another huge drop Friday after major banks warned of further losses on their debt portfolios, raising investor concerns that the credit market slu

2007-11-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON -- President Bush suffered the first veto override of his seven-year-old presidency Thursday as the Senate enacted a $23 billion water resources bill despite his protest that it was filled

2007-11-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON -- The Democratic-led House of Representatives on Wednesday defied a White House veto threat and voted to protect millions of Americans by outlawing workplace discrimination based on sexual

2007-11-07 所属栏目:欧美文化

MATHARE, Kenya -- Residents along this slum's smoky, twisting alleys say they're caught in the middle of a battle between the police and a murderous street gang known for beheading its victims.
Poli

2007-11-06 所属栏目:欧美文化

The United States and Britain heaped pressure on Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf yesterday, urging him to hold elections on time, as police detained hundreds of lawyers angry at his imposition

2007-11-05 所属栏目:欧美文化

JERUSALEM - At the outset of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's latest diplomatic mission to the region, Israel's top negotiator acknowledged on Sunday that there were problems trying to frame a

2007-11-04 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD - In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, th

2007-11-03 所属栏目:欧美文化

Wintersburg, Arizona -- Security officials at the largest nuclear power plant in US detained a contract worker with a small pipe bomb in the back of his pickup truck Friday, and investigators were sea

2007-11-02 所属栏目:欧美文化

LONDON - Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has written a new book, her first since the final best-seller about the boy wizard came out earlier this year, she told BBC radio Thursday.But most fans will

2007-11-01 所属栏目:欧美文化

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The San Francisco Bay area's largest earthquake in nearly two decades rattled homes and nerves, but the magnitude-5.6 temblor caused no serious damage or injuries.Tuesday's tremor

2007-10-31 所属栏目:欧美文化

Chad's authorities brought abduction and fraud charges Tuesday against nine French and seven Spanish nationals they accused of illegally trying to fly 103 African children to Europe.A Chadian prosecu

2007-10-30 所属栏目:欧美文化

TEHRAN -- A senior Iranian military commander warned on Monday that the forces of the Islamic Republic may launch suicide missions in the Gulf Region if "necessary," the semi-official Fars n

2007-10-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina - An early morning fire ravaged a beach house occupied by more than a dozen college students on Sunday, killing seven and sending several more to a hospital.Mayor Debb

2007-10-28 所属栏目:欧美文化

ROME - Luciano Pavarotti's widow said on Saturday she hoped a media furore over the late opera star's inheritance would soon be over and insisted the tenor was in no way mentally impaired when he ma