2007-10-02 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD - US and Iraqi forces killed more than 60 insurgent and militia fighters in intense battles over the weekend, officials said Sunday.
US soldiers guard a position during a joint operation with

2007-10-01 所属栏目:欧美文化

More than 100,000 people protested Saturday in southern Japan against the central government's order to modify school textbooks which say the country's army forced civilians to commit mass suicide a

2007-09-30 所属栏目:欧美文化

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Dengue fever is spreading across Latin America and the Caribbean in one of the worst outbreaks in decades, causing agonizing joint pain for hundreds of thousands of people and

2007-09-29 所属栏目:欧美文化

KABUL -- A Taliban suicide bomber killed 27 Afghan troops and an unknown number of civilians on Saturday in an attack on an army bus in Kabul, officials said.
Afghans carry a victim after a suicide bl

2007-09-28 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON - A terrorist who intends to smuggle radioactive material from Canada into the United States will probably find it easy to do, a U.S. government watchdog said Thursday.U.S. government inves

2007-09-27 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON -- President Bush and Congress are headed toward another showdown on war spending, this time sparring over nearly $190 billion the Pentagon says is needed to keep combat in Iraq afloat for

2007-09-26 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON -- Al-Qaida continues to recruit Europeans for explosives training in Pakistan because Europeans can more easily enter the United States without a visa, the nation's top intelligence offic

2007-09-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON -- It sounds like the plot for a scary B-movie: Germs go into space on a rocket and come back stronger and deadlier than ever. Except, it really happened.The germ: Salmonella, best known as

2007-09-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

Washington -- US Vice President Dick Cheney had at one point considered asking Israel to launch limited missile strikes at an Iranian nuclear site to provoke a retaliation, Newsweek magazine reported

2007-09-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has ordered a deep clean of every hospital in Britain to tackle hospital "superbugs", he told the News of the World.
British Prime Minister Gordo

2007-09-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed for a one-day global cease-fire on Friday as he rang the Peace Bell at the UN Headquarters to mark the International Day of Peace."I cal

2007-09-21 所属栏目:欧美文化

CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden is calling on Pakistanis to rebel against President Pervez Musharraf in a new audiotape.
An undated file photo of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. [File]Th

2007-09-20 所属栏目:欧美文化

FORT MEADE, Md. - President Bush said Wednesday that a law hastily passed in August to temporarily give the government more power to eavesdrop without warrants on foreign terror suspects must be made

2007-09-19 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW - Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has resigned, Russia's new prime minister said on Tuesday as President Vladimir Putin considered his proposed cabinet lineup."I spoke with Serdyukov a

2007-09-18 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON - Former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan said on Monday there is an increased risk of a US recession but cautioned that the Fed must still be on guard for a rise in inflation.Alan Gree

2007-09-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

Alan Greenspan speaks at Book Expo America in New York in this file photo from June 1, 2007, to promote his new book 'The Age of Turbulence', due out this fall from Penguin Press.[Reuters] WASHINGTO

2007-09-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

Yasuo Fukuda, the frontrunner to succeed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said on Saturday that he would stay away from a Tokyo shrine seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Japan's past militaris

2007-09-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

Washington - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility Friday of cutting troop levels in Iraq to 100,000 by the end of next year, well beyond the cuts President Bush has approved.Defens

2007-09-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

TOKYO -- Momentum was building in Japan's ruling party on Friday to tap 71-year-old lawmaker Yasuo Fukuda, known for his pro-Asian diplomacy, as successor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after his shock

2007-09-13 所属栏目:欧美文化

EGHAM, England - Veterinary authorities confirmed a new foot-and-mouth outbreak on the outskirts of London on Wednesday - just days after the government lifted livestock restrictions following the app

2007-09-12 所属栏目:欧美文化

The European Commission Tuesday revised slightly down its forecast for economic growth in the eurozone this year, citing a weaker performance in the second quarter and the recent turmoil in the financ

2007-09-11 所属栏目:欧美文化

Jerusalem -- Meeting the Palestinian leader face to face, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered yesterday to release Palestinian prisoners ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and agreed to

2007-09-10 所属栏目:欧美文化

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai renewed a call for talks with Taliban insurgents on Sunday, shortly after a security scare forced him to cut short a commemoration speech when gunshots

2007-09-09 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON -- The United States rejected on Friday UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei's suggestion that Washington is preparing a military attack on Iran.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Di

2007-09-08 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden, in a U.S. transcript of a newly released video, said President George W. Bush was repeating the mistakes of Soviet leaders by refusing to acknowledge losses in Iraq.Al Qa