2010-08-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Aug 16 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry reported Monday that the wildfire-affected areas were reduced by some 8,000 hectares over the past 24 hours.The number of fires decre

2010-08-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

SANTIAGO, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chile's government is focusing on rapid growth in its bilateral trade, investments, and tourism with China, the country's finance minister said Sunday.Chilean Finance M

2010-08-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Aug 16 (Xinhua) -- Gas production in Russia rose by 19.3 percent to 379 billion cubic meters from January to July in 2010 year-on-year, RIA Novosti news agency reported on Monday.In July 2010,

2010-08-17 所属栏目:欧美文化

TOKYO, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Japanese economy grew an annualized real 0.4 percent in the past quarter from April to June, expanding for the third consecutive quarter, the government said Monday.But the

2010-08-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

BAGHDAD, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Up to 11 Iraqis were killed and 29 others were wounded in gunfire and a series of bomb attacks across the country on late Saturday and Sunday, the police said.Abid Khalaf,

2010-08-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

SANAA, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- The report that the U.S. military was behind a secret air raid against alleged al-Qaida target in Yemen on May 24 by The New York Times will pose an embarrassment to the Yem

2010-08-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Capturing or killing al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden is still a priority for the United States, David Petraeus, the general who commands all U.S. forces in Afghanis

2010-08-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

GAZA, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- A committee of independent experts, tasked by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), started on Sunday meetings and tours in the Gaza Strip to assess postwar investigations by

2010-08-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

TEHRAN, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Iran said on Sunday it will not stop its nuclear fuel enrichment activities although Russia would provide it with the nuclear fuel needed to run its Bushehr nuclear power p

2010-08-16 所属栏目:欧美文化

ISLAMABAD, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari Sunday called for greater international support and assistance to cope with the gigantic task of relief and rehabilitation of th

2010-08-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- A man celebrating his first wedding anniversary was one of four people killed early Saturday in a shooting outside a restaurant at downtown Buffalo, New York, local media

2010-08-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

MOSCOW, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- There were downpours Friday in Moscow after several rainless weeks, but dozens of wildfires, one of them near the country's top nuclear research center, were still burning

2010-08-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of couples from all generations gathered for a group "Kiss-In" on Saturday at New York 's Times Square to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the end of the World

2010-08-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama pledged Saturday that he will stand by the Gulf of Mexico residents until the region fully recovered from the BP oil spill during a weekend

2010-08-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

SANAA, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- An alleged leader of the Yemen-based al-Qaida regional wing turned himself into the security authorities in the northeast of the country, the Yemeni Defense Ministry reporte

2010-08-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Two U.S. Navy helicopters arrived in Pakistan on Saturday as part of the U.S. assistance to Pakistan's flood relief effort, the U.S. State Department said.The two Navy

2010-08-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street turned lower on Friday after mixed reports showed U.S. retail sales gained less than expected while consumer sentiment climbed higher.According to the Commerc

2010-08-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

SANTIAGO, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Chilean government aims to create more than 250,000 new jobs this year in a bid to reduce the country's unemployment.Chilean Labor Minister Camila Merino Friday rati

2010-08-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

NEW YORK, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. stocks extended losses for the fourth straight day on Friday after mixed reports showed U. S. retail sales gained less than expected while consumer sentiment cli

2010-08-15 所属栏目:欧美文化

CHICAGO, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange pared earlier gains after touching near one month high on Friday, and the price rallied nearly 1 per

2010-08-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

RAMALLAH, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is waiting for a statement from the international Quartet for peace in the Middle East over the resumption of the direct peace talks w

2010-08-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-general Ban Ki- moon will travel to Pakistan to visit the country's flood-ravaged areas on Saturday, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said here on Friday.T

2010-08-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

HOUSTON, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Scientists from BP and the U.S. government were reviewing results of a pressure test on the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico to determine the next steps to be taken, BP

2010-08-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

TEHRAN, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi confirmed on Friday next week's launch of his country's first nuclear power plant."We are getting ready

2010-08-14 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- A major 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck southwest of U.S. territory Guam on Saturday local time, the United States Geological Survey reported on its website.The quake o