PRAGUE, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Czech police raided government offices and the defence ministry and making several arrests, police spokesman Pavel Hantak said on Thursday. According to local media, the arrested persons include former Civic Democrats depu...
ATHENS, June 13 (Xinhua) -- As a businessman and the President of the National Confederation of Greek Commerce (ESEE), Vassilis Korkidis knows well the impact of the three-year debt crisis on Greek enterprises, in particular small and medium-size one...
TALLINN, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Estonian parliament on Thursday passed a bill that will make it easier for non-EU exchange students and specialists as well as their families to obtain temporary residence permits in the country. Critics of Estonia's migr...
VIENNA, June 13 (Xinhua) - Permanent migration to Austria increased significantly in 2010/2011 and provisional 2012 figures point to similar findings, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) revealed in its International Mig...
WASHINGTON, June 13 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. intelligence community assessed that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against rebels, White House said in a statement Thursday. Following a deliberative review, our intelligence community assess...
OTTAWA, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Al-Qaida and its affiliates remain the leading terrorist threat to Canadians, showed the country's first annual public report on terrorism released Thursday. Home-grown violent extremists have been involved in attempts to...
DAMASCUS, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Despite dwindling chances of success, the forthcoming Geneva conference remain crucial for the Syrians as most of them pin hopes on the peace talks for a beginning of an end to their suffering. Media reports said the con...
MINSK, June 12 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recommended Belarus to reduce dollarization of the economy and adhere to a flexible exchange rate policy. The IMF emphasized the importance of maintaining exchange rate flexibility...
BRASILIA, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff said Wednesday that the country's public-sector accounts and inflation are under control, and the government has all the factors to prevent an unwanted rise in prices. During a ceremony...
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday announced a proposal to classify both wild and captive chimpanzees as endangered, a move that could affect future use of chimpanzees in scientific research in the United St...
NICOSIA, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Cyprus' President Nicos Anastasiades has made an appeal to the leaders of international lenders to urgently lift controls on bank transactions in a letter made public on Tuesday. Restrictions on bank transactions were int...
HONG KONG, June 9 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted Northern Territory, Australia at 14:22:12 GMT (22:22:12 Beijing Time) Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 1.50 km, was initially...
ANKARA, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet on Wednesday representatives of some groups that organized the recent protests against a demolition plan of Istanbul's Taksim Square's Gezi Park, Deputy Prime Minister...
WASHINGTON, June 10 (Xinhua) -- The White House on Monday declined to comment on a whistle-blower who revealed details about two classified surveillance programs by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). White House spokesman Jay Carney said at the...
JOHANNESBURG, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Former South African president Nelson Mandela's condition remained unchanged Saturday afternoon, the Presidency said. Mandela, who was admitted to a Pretoria hospital for a recurrence of lung infection at about 1:30 a...
