The United States called on Monday for the immediate release of an American contractor jailed for the past four years in Cuba, saying his continued captivity was gravely disappointing. Tomorrow, development worker Alan Gross will begin a fifth year o...
乌克兰当局要求示威者退出 KIEV, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian authorities on Monday urged demonstrators to abide by the law during mass protests, promising to further the country's European Union (EU) integration efforts. When we are buildi...
北约敦促卡尔扎伊签军队协议 BRUSSELS NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels are urging Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sign a security pact with the United States that would allow foreign troops to remain in Afghanistan beyond the en...
奥巴马表示将更新国家安全战略 WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is to update his National Security Strategy next year, according to the White House on Friday. In a letter to the Congress, Obama said he intends t...
美副总统拜登启程访问东亚 WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden on Sunday embarked on a week-long visit to Japan, China and the Republic of Korea, in the administration's latest effort to rebalance toward Asia. In...
以色列新反对派领导人会见巴勒斯坦总统 JERUSALEM, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Israel's newly-elected opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog on Sunday met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, Israeli media reported. Herzog, who repla...
中国青年感染艾滋病人数上升 BEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- The share of young people around the age of twenty in all HIV infections in China almost doubled from 2008 to 2012, with male-to-male sex as the prominent contributing factor, a sen...
休斯敦庆祝感恩节 HOUSTON, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Tens of thousands in the U.S. city of Houston lined up the downtown streets Thursday to watch the annual holiday parade filled with floats and live entertainment. Though the temperature was freezi...
巴西启动媒体宣传反对使用可卡因 RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian Justice Ministry on Thursday launched a nationwide media campaign against the use of crack cocaine, said state news agency Agencia Brasil. The campaign ai...
智利将不会割地给玻利维亚 SANTIAGO, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chile will not cede any of its national territory to Bolivia, Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno said Thursday in response to a Bolivian suggestion of resuming talks to settle a land dis...
SHANGHAI, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- About 6,000 companies have applied to register in Shanghai's free trade zone (FTZ) within two months of its launch, the administrative committee of the FTZ said on Thursday. As of November 22, a total of 1,434 companies...
BRUSSELS - The European Union (EU) on Wednesday imposed tariffs of up to 42.1 percent on solar glass imports from China, which would come into force Thursday. Chinese manufacturers had been allegedly selling the product, which is used for producing s...
意参院免贝卢斯科尼议员资格 ROME, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday was stripped of his seat in parliament for immediate effect of a Senate-ejection vote over his conviction for tax fraud, bu...
埃及驱逐土耳其大使 Egypt said on Saturday it was expelling Turkey's ambassador and accused Ankara of backing organizations bent on undermining the country - an apparent reference to the Muslim Brotherhood of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed...
意大利总理莱塔赢得信任投票 ROME - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta won a confidence vote on the 2014 budget, reinforcing his coalition government a day before the Senate is expected to ban centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi from pa...
