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Romanian President Traian Basescu has violated the constitution and the suspension procedures launched by the parliament oppositions are thus justified, the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission said on Wednesday afternoon. "Traian Basescu has violated Romania's Constitution," said ...
A diplomatic crisis has developed between Sweden and Cuba, and the Cuban ambassador has been called to the foreign ministry after it was discovered that Cuban officials had opened Swedish diplomatic post, local media reported on Wednesday. The row began when Swedish Foreign ...
Four years after the invasion of Iraq, the great and growing demand for U.S. troops there and in Afghanistan has left ground forces in the United States short of the training, personnel and equipment that would be vital to fight a major ground conflict elsewhere, The Washington ...
Five Europeans who were abducted in Ethiopia almost two weeks ago have been released in neighboring Eritrea and are in good health, the British government said yesterday. Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said the three British men, an Anglo-Italian and a French woman all ...
Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo, who was kidnapped by Taliban militants about two weeks ago, was released along with his interpreter in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan on Sunday morning, the Taliban said. The freed Italian journalist had been handed over to ...
Consultations among six major nations on the new Security Council draft resolution against Iran are still going on Tuesday with looming prospect of a text to be distributed soon. Ambassadors from the six nations -- the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, ...
Six in 10 Iraqis say their lives are going badly, and only one-third expect things to improve in the next year, a poll published on Monday showed. The survey of 2,212 Iraqis, sponsored jointly by USA TODAY, ABC News, the British Broadcasting Corp. and ARD, a German TV network, ...
Japan and Australia signed a "milestone" defense pact yesterday, prompting China to ask them to take into consideration the concerns and interests of their neighbors. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and visiting Australian Prime Minister John Howard signed the agreement on ...
The Malaysian man who was bashed to death in Melbourne was a tourist who had overstayed his visa in Australia, local press reported Wednesday. Australian police said Lim Leong, 45, arrived in Sydney on a tourist visa in December 2005. His visa expired last March but Immigration ...
Russia advocates a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula and will work toward achieving this goal, Russian Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov said on Tuesday. "We have a stake in turning the Korean Peninsula into a nuclear- free zone and a zone of stability and prosperity. And we'll ...
The leaders of the lower houses of parliament in Germany and Poland said on Tuesday they want to improve relations between their countries and plan to meet once a year. The visiting speaker of the Poland's lower house, Marek Jurek, and Norbert Lammert, the president of the German ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Tuesday that his country would never suspend its uranium enrichment work despite increasing international pressure. "The demand for Iran to stop enrichment is illegitimate and based on a wrong political strategy," the official ...
France believes the use of force to solve the Iranian nuclear issue is "unimaginable and unacceptable," French foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Repeating France's stance that the use of force against Iran is not an option, French Foreign Ministry's spokesman Jean-Baptiste Mattei ...
Arab League (AL) chief Amr Moussa on Sunday denied reports that Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman have agreed to allow Israeli warplanes to cross their airspaces to strike Iran. Moussa was quoted by Egypt's official MENA news agency as saying that foreign ministers of the ...
Five chief negotiators involved in the Korean nuke issue on Wednesday held intensive meetings to pave the way for the six-party talks that will resume in Beijing on Thursday afternoon. "Chief Chinese negotiator Wu Dawei held one-on-one talks with his counterparts from the ...
The International Criminal Court's prosecutor on Tuesday named a former Sudanese minister and a militia commander as the first suspects for war crimes in the Darfur conflict. Concluding an investigation that lasted 20 months, prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said there are ...
The International Criminal Court's prosecutor on Tuesday named a former Sudanese minister and a militia commander as the first suspects for war crimes in the Darfur conflict. Concluding an investigation that lasted 20 months, prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said there are ...
Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said Sunday that talks with the western leaders on the sidelines of a high-profile security meeting in Munich was "constructive." The talks "are constructive at this level" and further negotiations are needed to find a solution that ...
The number of dengue fever cases in Malaysia is still at a worrying level, local newspaper The Star reported Monday. "Although the number of cases dropped to 990 last week from about 1,200 the previous week (throughout the country), it is still at a high level," the Health ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday dismissed as groundless U.S. claims that the planned deployment of missile defense elements in the Czech Republic and Poland are targeted against Iran and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). The United States is ...
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), the world's second-largest drug producer by ...
China slams Japan's NHK governor's denial of Nanjing massacre
China slams Japan's NHK governor's denial of Nanjing massacre
BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- China on Wednesday slammed the remarks of ...
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary ...
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
SHANGHAI, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- China, the world's top manufacturer and ...
GM China chairman to retire
GM China chairman to retire
CHICAGO, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- General Motors Co. announced Friday that ...
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
A Wal-Mart store is seen in Stratford, Connecticut, the United States. ...
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
A formation of nine Royal Air Force Red Arrows Hawk aircraft fly ...
China cloning pigs on industrial scale
China cloning pigs on industrial scale
Cloning is a controversial and decisive issue that has split public ...
Logistics industry faces reshuffle
Logistics industry faces reshuffle
Every day at 7 a.m., Xiao Lin, a Shentong Express courier in Hangzhou, ...
Airbus opens Chinese logistics center
Airbus opens Chinese logistics center
A model of an Airbus SAS A350 XWB on display at an air show. The ...
Dollar trades at lower 102 yen level in early Tokyo deals
Dollar trades at lower 102 yen level in early Tokyo deals
TOKYO, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. dollar traded at the lower 102 ...