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Two Canadian soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday, only three days after a roadside bomb claimed six soldiers' lives in the troubled country, Canadian media reported. The Canadian military in Afghanistan has confirmed the news, saying three more soldiers were injured ...
Iranian semi-official Fars news agency released on Tuesday afternoon the new pictures of captive sailors in Iran. According to the picture, nine male sailors sit in white, black, blue and red suits on a red carpet in a room, chatting and watching apparently a television. They ...
Russia is against the use of force against Iran, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday, as the Gulf state continues to hold 15 British sailors and refuses to give up its nuclear program. "We are absolutely against the use of force in settling any conflicts. The same ...
British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett urged caution on Tuesday over the "swift resolution" on Iran dispute over 15 detained British Navy personnel. "I would urge you to be cautious in thinking that we are likely to see a swift resolution to this issue," Beckett told ...
The visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised Sunday that Europe will try to build a new burst of international efforts to restart peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. In her first Middle East trip as the current rotating EU president, Merkel told Israeli ...
An Arab League (AL) senior official on Sunday voiced hope for achieving reconciliation during the upcoming two international conferences on Iraq to be hosted by Egypt in early May. In a press statement issued on Sunday, Ali al-Garoush, the director of the Arab department at the ...
Somali authorities said Sunday they are holding two suspects in connection with the deaths of two prominent journalists who were killed within hours of each other on Saturday, according to reports reaching here. Mogadishu Mayor Mohamed Dheere told a news conference in the Somali ...
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Monday that he would continue efforts to isolate Iran because the government in Tehran is "not a force for good" in the world. "Because of the actions of this government, this country is isolated, and we will continue to work to isolate it ...
Lebanon's Christians emerged yesterday from a by-election split down the middle after opposition leader Michel Aoun's candidate narrowly beat former President Amin Gemayel, a pillar of the Western-backed government. Both sides took comfort from Sunday's contest in the Metn area ...
When the shooting began at Virginia Tech, a handful of students in one locked-down news writing class hurried to their computers. The students in professor Roland Lazenby's class almost immediately began reporting on the shootings in nearby Norris Hall for planetblacksburg.com, a ...
US Federal agents searched the home of Senator Ted Stevens, focusing on records related to his relationship with an Alaska oil field services contractor jailed in a public corruption investigation, a law enforcement official said. Stevens, 83, has been under a federal investigati...
The United States is united with France over Lebanon's political and economic reform and efforts to bring to justice those responsible for former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq's murder, the State Department said Wednesday. "There is no question about that and France has been an ...
A new type of highly porous gel that can soak up heavy metals may be useful for environmental cleanup, U.S. researchers reported Thursday. The gel is a "molecular sieve" that can trap large metals present in a solution, said the research team in an article published in the latest ...
U.S. President Geogre W. Bush had talks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the White House on Tuesday with the two sides focusing on issues of the Middle East, Iraq war and Darfur, Sudan. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Ban said he welcomed Bush's plan to hold a ...
The Portuguese government on Wednesday sent its condolences to Brazil for Tuesday's air accident, the worst ever in Brazil, government officials said. The Brazilian authorities said that 176 passengers and crew died on Tuesday when an aircraft left its planned landing strip, ...
Austrian bank BAWAG's former chief executive, Helmut Elsner, and others gambled away at least 1.4 billion euros ($1.9 billion) in one of the world's biggest speculative failures, a prosecutor said yesterday. Elsner, hedge fund manager Wolfgang Floettl and seven other men faced ...
BAGHDAD: At least 85 people were killed yesterday by a suicide truck bomb in the volatile Iraqi city of Kirkuk, some of them trapped on a bus where they burned to death, according to a witness. Police also said 180 people were wounded and they warned the death toll could rise ...
Japan's defense minister apologized yesterday for comments about the 1945 US atomic bomb attacks on the country that outraged survivors and drew criticism from the ruling bloc ahead of a key election in July. Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma said he had not meant to offend the ...
The United States is looking to build on momentum created by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) shutting down its nuclear reactor and will start deliberations on removing it from a list of terrorism-sponsoring states, the main US envoy on the issue said yesterday. ...
The Bush administration is urging a former White House political director to ignore a subpoena and not testify before Congress about the firings of federal prosecutors, her lawyer says. The fight involves the investigation by Democratic lawmakers into the firings of several US ...
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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 ...