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BRUSSELS -- The European Commission on Monday sharply raised its inflation forecast for the eurozone this year while predicting slightly lower growth for the 15-nation bloc sharing the same currency. "Economic growth is moderating in the European Union (EU) and euro area and the ...
The European Union (EU) on Tuesday hailed the formation of a coalition in Ukraine, said a news release from the European Commission. "I welcome the announcement of the formation of a coalition following September's early parliamentary elections in Ukraine," EU Commissioner for ...
The Council of the European Union decided here Monday to conduct a bridging military operation in Eastern Chad and North Eastern Central African Republic. It made the announcement after a meeting of the General Affairs and External Relations Council, which gathers foreign ...
A small plane crashed Saturday on Vancouver Island in Canada's western British Columbia province, killing all three people on board, police said. The Cessna 172, carrying a pilot and two tourists, went down between Port Alberni and Bamfield, local media reported Sunday. The ...
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit on Tuesday rejected allegations that a great deal of weapons were smuggled from Egypt into Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip through border tunnels. Replying to questions at a joint press conference with visiting U.S. Secretary of State ...
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and Premier Romano Prodi will make separate visits to Washington in the coming months to meet with United States President George W. Bush, Italian News Agency ANSA said on Tuesday. Napolitano will meet with the American president on Dec. 11, ...
The world's maternal mortality ratio is declining too slowly to meet the target set in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. While an annual decline of 5.5 percent in maternal mortality ratios between 1990 and 2015 is ...
BHOPAL - At least eight people were trampled to death and 10 seriously injured in a stampede at a Hindu temple in central India, officials said. The stampede happened late on Wednesday, when thousands of villagers were making their way to a temple during an annual fair in remote ...
SEOUL -- South Korea's food safety authority said Friday that it is probing how a rat was found in a US-made frozen vegetable products and demanded an immediate recall of the products. The Korea Food and Drug Administration ordered the local unit of the US retailer Costco ...
WASHINGTON - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates will depart here for a nine-day trip Wednesday to Australia, Indonesia, India and Turkey, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Gates will join US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte in the annual talks with Australian officials on ...
NEW DELHI -- India and China have the potential to be the engines of the world economy, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Thursday. "In the years to come, India and China will be viewed as the new growth engines of the world economy. We are not yet there, but we will ...
Scientists have filmed an electron in motion for the first time, using a new technique that will allow researchers to study the tiny particle's movements directly. Previously it was impossible to photograph electrons because of their extreme speediness, so scientists had to rely ...
LONDON -- Scientists have developed a kind of rubber that when snapped into two can heal itself back into a stretchy piece of rubber again. The self-healing rubber was built up from simple starting materials -- fatty acids from vegetable oil and urea (a component of urine) in the ...
LONDON: A British Airways plane on a flight from China crash-landed short of the runway at London's Heathrow Airport Thursday. Four people were slightly injured. Fire engines smothered the Boeing 777 in foam after it landed with its wings extensively damaged and its undercarriage ...
WELLINGTON -- It's a doggone chartbuster -- a song audible only to dogs has topped New Zealand record charts, and is looking to go global. A Very Silent Night, recorded at a frequency only dogs can hear, was so popular among owners it hit number one at Christmas, but has been ...
Twelve Chinese nationals died and another was badly injured when a fire and explosions ripped through a nearly completed cold storage warehouse south of Seoul and killed a total of 40 workers, Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday. Most of the victims were so badly burned that they ...
WASHINGTON - The United States flatly dismissed on Wednesday the claim by Iran that the video and audio released by the Pentagon showing Iranian boats confronting US warships in the Persian Gulf were fabricated. "That's just ridiculous. I completely dismiss that," State ...
BRUSSELS -- Confidence in the European economy fell in December to the lowest level in nearly two years but not by as much as economists had expected in the eurozone, a European Union survey showed Monday. The European Commission's eurozone economic sentiment indicator slipped in ...
MOSCOW -- Russia's military on Tuesday successfully test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads -- a weapon intended to replace aging Soviet-era missiles. The RS-24 missile was launched from the Plesetsk launch facility in ...
NUSA DUA, Indonesia -- Negotiators at climate talks in Bali tried to break a deadlock on Friday over emissions goals after the European Union accused the United States of blocking progress at the 190-nation meeting. The two-week talks, which are supposed to end on Friday, aim to ...
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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 ...