ROME, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Italy's new Prime Minister-Designate Enrico Letta held party consultations on Thursday to put together a large coalition under the direction of reelected President Giorgio Napolitano, who asked the center-left politician to...
ISLAMABAD, April 26 (Xinhua) -- At least 11 people including a child were killed and 40 others injured on Friday night in a bomb blast that targeted a political meeting in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, local media and police said. Accordi...
MOSCOW, April 26 (Xinhua) -- A big fire broke out in a mental hospital in Russia's Moscow region early Friday, killing at least 38 people, local authorities said. We have a list of 38 people who have died and been identified, a source in the hospital...
布什图书馆开幕 HOUSTON, April 25 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama joined all his living predecessors Thursday morning to dedicate the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dalla...
WASHINGTON, April 25 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday met with visiting Jordanian King Abdullah II in Washington to discuss the Syrian crisis, the White House said in a statement. Hosting the king for breakfast at the Naval Obser...
委内瑞拉总统命令逮捕政治颠覆分子 CARACAS, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday ordered to arrest anyone involved in inciting violence or fomenting instability in post-election Venezuela. Maduro issued t...
委内瑞拉缴获2.7吨可卡因 CARACAS, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan authorities seized nearly 2.7 tons of high-grade cocaine in the northwestern Zulia state, Interior and Justice Minister Miguel Rodriguez said on Thursday. We were able to deal...
阿根廷国会批准司法改革 BUENOS AIRES, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Argentine lawmakers on Thursday passed a reform bill that paved the way for a controversial judicial reform, local media reported. After an overnight debate lasting nearly 19 hours,...
DHAKA, April 24 (Xinhua) -- At least 50 people were killed and several hundreds injured after an eight-storey building on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka collapsed on Wednesday morning. At least 50 bodies have so far been recovered, Israfil Alam,...
厄瓜多尔滑坡14人被埋 QUITO, April 24 (Xinhua) -- A total of 14 people were buried by a landslide which occurred Tuesday night in Ecuador's coastal province of Esmeraldas, and six bodies have been recovered, official sources said Wednesday. A...
联合国秘书长表示欢迎巴拉圭和平选举 UNITED NATIONS, April 24 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed the peaceful general elections held Sunday in Paraguay, saying that the United Nations is ready to work wi...
古巴生物技术产业有望在五年内翻一番 HAVANA, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Cuba's biotechnology industry is expected to double over the next five years, bringing in more than five billion U.S. dollars in export revenues, officials said recently...
玻利维亚起诉智利 LA PAZ, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Landlocked Bolivia Wednesday filed a suit against Chile at the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ), demanding its neighbor provide it with an access route to the Pacific Ocean. Bol...
委内瑞拉宣布90天电力应急 CARACAS, April 23 (Xinhua) -- The Venezuelan government on Tuesday declared a 90-day state of emergency for the electricity sector to address the challenge of growing power demand and better protect the country's p...
北约敦促朝鲜放弃核武器 BRUSSELS, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Foreign ministers from the 28 NATO countries on Tuesday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear and ballistic missile...
