WASHINGTON -- An overwhelming majority of US blacks say the verdict of George Zimmerman was wrong, while a majority of whites say the verdict was right, a Gallup poll showed Monday. The poll found, an overwhelming 85 percent of blacks say the verdict...
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama on Monday extended his congratulations to British Prince William and his wife Kate for the birth of their first child. (First lady) Michelle and I are so pleased to congratulate the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge...
The Southwest Airlines flight coming from Nashville, Tenn., was carrying 150 passengers and crew, the airline said. The airline said initial reports had five passengers and three crewmembers requiring medical assistance. There was no immediate word o...
MOSCOW - Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden hopes to be granted papers by Wednesday allowing him to end his month-long stay in the transit area of a Moscow airport and move to the city center, his Russian lawyer said on Monday. Anatoly Ku...
NEW YORK, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Air traffic was shut down at New York's LaGuardia Airport as the landing gear under the nose of a passenger plane collapsed after landing early Monday evening. The front wheel of Southwest Airlines Flight 345 from Nashvi...
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 22 (Xinhua) -- The Brazilian government will further trim its 2013 budget by 10 billion reais (about 4.5 billion U.S. dollars), Finance Minister Guido Mantega said on Monday. It is the third budget cut this year since May, in add...
LIMA, July 22 (Xinhua) -- President Ollanta Humala will soon name replacements for two ministers who resigned on Monday, a high-ranking government official said. Juan Jimenez, president of the Council of Ministers, said that Foreign Trade Minister Jo...
WASHINGTON, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Despite its intention to work with other partners to achieve denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, Washington is currently not quite ready to return to the six-party talks, U.S. experts say. I think the U.S. would...
MONTEVIDEO, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Paraguay has seized 269 kilograms of cocaine ready for shipment to Switzerland, authorities said Friday. The contraband was discovered Thursday inside a wooden container at Puerto Fenix, an air terminal and shipping po...
WASHINGTON, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Veteran U.S. journalist Helen Thomas, who covered 10 consecutive presidents dating back to John Kennedy in the White House press corps, died, local reports said on Saturday. Politico quoted an email from the Gridiron C...
LOS ANGELES, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Los Angeles on Saturday joined more than 100 other U.S. cities in protesting against the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who shot dead unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front...
WASHINGTON, July 21 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama extended his congratulations Sunday to the new king of Belgium, saying he for deeper ties between their countries. Philippe, 53, ascended the throne earlier in the day following the abdicati...
BOGOTA, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos said on Sunday that a total of 15 soldiers died in an ambush by the guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the northwestern department of Arauca. The soldie...
意大利总统敦促稳定地契驱逐案 ROME, July 18 (Xinhua) -- Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on Thursday condenmed the expulsion of the wife and daughter of the Kazakh dissident Mukhtar Ablyazov, calling it an unheard story. Meantime, th...
大部分非裔美国人不满社会医疗 WASHINGTON, July 18 (Xinhua) -- Over half of African Americans feel dissatisfied with the societal treatment of their race, though they are more satisfied now than during the time from 2001 to 2008, a Gallup...
