HOUSTON, July 25 (Xinhua) -- One person has died in the crash of a small plane in the U.S. state of Texas Thursday, local media reported. The incident happened in the morning near a local airport in Amarillo, about 850 km north of Texas's largest cit...
WASHINGTON, July 25 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday approved an amendment to State Department funding bill aimed at pressuring Russia and other countries against giving asylum to Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA) surveill...
OTTAWA, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Canadian police services reported nearly 2 million criminal incidents in 2012, a 3 percent drop from 2011, or 36,000 fewer than in the previous year, Statistics Canada reported Thursday. The crime rate is the lowest level...
WASHINGTON, July 24 (Xinhua) -- The Obama administration has decided to suspend delivery of F-16 fighter planes to Egypt, the Defense Department announced Wednesday. Given the current situation in Egypt, we do not believe it is appropriate to move fo...
WASHINGTON, July 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Caroline Kennedy, the elder daughter of former president John F. Kennedy, as the ambassador to Japan. Kennedy was only six when her father was assassinated on Nov. 22,...
WASHINGTON, July 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress are both seeing a decline in support as rising frustration over the political gridlock in Washington has damaged public faith in them, according to a Wall Street Journa...
HOUSTON, July 24 (Xinhua) -- An out-of-control natural gas well ignited a fire on a rig off the coast of the U.S. state of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, and the raging blaze has caused its production platform to collapse, authorities said on Wedne...
WASHINGTON, July 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly defeated an amendment of the Defense Authorization Act that would restrict surveillance of the American public by the National Security Agency (NSA). In a 205-217 vot...
BRASILIA, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Brazil said Wednesday it will send a delegation to Washington over alleged U.S. spying on Brazilian individual and corporate communications in the wake of revelations by intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden. Without...
CHICAGO, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Ford Motor Company will hire an additional 800 salaried employees for a total of more than 3,000 salaried employees in the United States this year, according to a file released by the company on Tuesday. The new hiring re...
WASHINGTON, July 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. House of Representatives will vote on an amendment of the Defense Authorization Act to restrict surveillance of the American public, a House committee announced Tuesday. The House Rules Committee on Tuesday posted...
CARACAS, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua on Tuesday accused the United States of interfering in his country's internal affairs. Respect for Venezuela's sovereignty is a precondition to the normalization of relations with th...
QUITO, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said Tuesday that his government will support Bolivian President Evo Morales on whether to accept apologies offered by four European countries that closed airspace to Morales' presidential...
BOGOTA, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Workers at Drummond, Colombia's second largest coal miner, went on strike Tuesday to demand better pay and protest against planned layoffs. The company did not improve its offer. At 6 p.m.today we began an unlimited strike...
China will send its senior naval commander to visit the United States in September ahead of the Rim of the Pacific naval exercise next year, which will involve naval forces from both countries, a senior US officer has said. Admiral Jonathan Greenert,...
