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LUCKNOW, India -- Police broke up a major tiger poaching ring in northern India, arresting an alleged kingpin and 15 others, police and wildlife officials said Thursday. In a rare success for India's embattled conservationists, police in the city of Allahabad raided a meeting ...
Bali -- The United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC), which kicked off in Bali on Monday, is poised for a breakthrough in international climate change negotiations, said a press release of the UNFCCC. The two-week conference from December 3 to 14, the 13th Conference of ...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) objected to constructing a high building near a medieval citadel in Cairo, Egyptian Culture Minister Farouq Hosni said on Monday. After examining the blueprint of the Cairo Financial and Touristic ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not, at least for now, take up the seat in parliament he won in last weekend's election, Interfax news agency quoted an official of his party as saying on Thursday. Russian President Vladimir Putin in his office in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence...
YANGON -- The Myanmar authorities have destroyed a total of 70 acres (28.3 hectares) of opium poppy plantations illegally grown in the country's eastern Shan state and arrested eight people in this connection, the state-owned newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Thursday. The ...
LONDON -- Women are still the victims of persistent gender inequality in the workplace, with very little change in their working conditions in Britain for almost two decades, according to a landmark report on Thursday. Women are working longer hours because they are still ...
Khartoum - Sudan's president on Monday pardoned a British teacher jailed in the country for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad - putting an end to a case that has outraged Britons and Muslims around the world. The teacher, Gillian Gibbons, said she did not intend ...
OTTAWA -- Canada's parliament on Wednesday unanimously passed a motion urging Japan to offer "formal and sincere" apologies to foreign women forced into sexual servitude during World War II.A South Korean woman (90) who was forced to become a sex slave or so-called comfort woman ...
ISLAMABAD -- Incumbent Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf took oath as a civilian president at a ceremony in Islamabad Thursday, one day after he gave up the post of army chief. Musharraf took the seat at the center of a hall along with Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar at the ...
Washington -- Government investigators smuggled liquid explosives and detonators past airport security, exposing a dangerous hole in the United States' ability to keep these forbidden items off of airplanes, according to a report made public Wednesday. Workers X-ray passengers ...
Washington -- Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames US President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative. In this Friday, May 5, 2006, file photo, ...
ISLAMABAD -- Former prime minister of Pakistan and top leader of opposition Pakistan Muslim League-NawazNawaz Sharif will return home with his wife and younger brother on Sunday, a state-run radio station reported. Sharif and his family members are expected to landed in the ...
MOSCOW -- Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili announced Saturday that he would hand in his resignation Sunday to pave the way for the January 5 presidential election, news from Tbilisi reaching here said. Saakashvili said at Saturday's cabinet meeting that he would kick off ...
LONDON -- More than one in three British servicemen killed in Iraq and Afghanistan might still be alive if not for avoidable blunders and equipment problems, an investigation by the Independent on Sunday has revealed. An audit of the 254 deaths in the two conflicts revealed that ...
WASHINGTON - A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy. Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, a deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses ...
France Thursday renewed its appeal to both Turkey and Iraq to "find a solution" to the tensions that have been provoked by the presence of the Turkish rebels in northern Iraq. Paris "continues to call on Turkish and Iraqi authorities to find an effective solution to arrest the ...
U.S. federal and California police are searching for arsonists who they believe started at least two of the 14 wildfires that have raged through Southern California in the past five days, ABC News reported Thursday. Arson is suspected in the Santiago fire, which originated near ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived on Thursday in Portugal for an official visit and to participate on Friday in the 20th Summit between the European Union (EU) and Russia. Putin was welcomed by Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco at Imperio Plaza, in front of Jernonimos ...
President George W. Bush reaffirmed on Thursday federal aid to fire-ravaged areas in Southern California. After an aerial "heartbreaking" tour of the devastation, Bush told reporters that federal resources are deployed as needed and people affected can apply for assistance. He ...
The United States reiterated on Wednesday its call for Turkey to show restraint as Turkish forces took aim at Kurdish rebels operating in northern Iraq. "We are concerned about the continuing skirmishes that are happening up there, and terrorist attacks that are being launched by ...
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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 ...