UNITED NATIONS: Five Taliban members, including a former Afghan ambassador to the United Nations, have been taken off a UN sanctions terrorism list, A

UNITED NATIONS: UN chief Ban Ki-moon pressed Israel Friday to further ease its blockade of the Gaza Strip and to restrain settlement activity in the o

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani flew to Peshawar Friday afternoon to meet Chief Minister and senior officials of the provincial gover

&$&$ Russian students dance during a departure ceremony for a group of Russian children who are ready to spend their summer vacation in China, at the Ocean Children Center in Vladivostok, Russia, on July 30, 2010. A total of 499 Russians, 447 children and 52 teachers and staff workers, will leave Vladivostok on July 31 for China' capital of Beijing to spend their summer vacation ther ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his Mexican counterpart, Patricia Espinosa, agreed here Friday to boost bilateral cooperation in economy, trade, investment and tourism. At a joint press conference with Espinosa, Yang said China attaches great importance to trade and economic cooperation with Mexico, and will continue to import Mexico's high quality products. Yang said China will encourage well-established Chinese companies to search for investment opportunities in Mexico. He al ...

The establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Costa Rica in 2007 and the rapid growth of bilateral ties since then are in the interests of the two countries and peoples, said China's ambassador to the central American nation. China has confidence in the prospects of the two-way ties and attaches importance to the bilateral friendly cooperation, Ambassador Li Changhua told Xinhua in a recent interview ahead of Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi's visit to Costa Rica between ...

&$&$ Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa (R) meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the official house of Los Pinos in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, July 29, 2010. (Xinhua/Bao Feifei) Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Friday said he disagreed with the theory that world power is shifting from West to East. Speaking at a joint press conference w ...

Celtic rebounded from their UEFA Champions League loss to battle back to earn a 2-2 draw against Lyon in the Emirates Cup on Saturday.

KAMPALA: A Ugandan court on Friday charged three Kenyans with 76 counts of murder, the first such cases opened against suspects in the July 11 suicide

Hangzhou Lucheng came from a goal down to beat Chinese Super League leaders Shandong Luneng 2-1 and move third in the table.

WASHINGTON: The US State Department expressed concern Friday that secret diplomatic cables might have been leaked to the WikiLeaks website in addition

Gross domestic product is not rising fast enough to ease unemployment and is likely to expand even more slowly in the future, new report shows.


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Meeting of S. American leaders fails to resolve dispute over Venezuelan President Chávez's alleged support for Colombian rebels. » Juan Forero


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In the vast concentric circles of Clintonian friendship, a new vocabulary defines coolness. The lingo doesn't pivot on name-dropping. But wedding-dropping.


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Democrats seize on massive securities fraud suit against brothers who contributed heavily to GOP.


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Embattled lawmaker's lawyers say colleagues who similarly sought donations were not punished.


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California lawmaker would be second high-profile Democrat to face such an ordeal in near future.


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Efforts to reach settlement fall short, setting up a potentially historic trial for N.Y. congressman.


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&$&$ Photo taken on July 31, 2010 shows part of the Liugou Coal Mining Company after the explosion in Yicheng, north China's Shanxi Province. An explosion occurred near the employee dormitories of the company Saturday, causing 17 people dead and 7 injured. The wounded people have been taken to hospital. (Xinhua/Yan Yan) The death toll in an explosion at a coal mine in Linfen C ...

More than 1,000 residents evacuated after a fire at a natural gas well in northwest China's Shaanxi Province have returned to their homes, even as the fire enters its eighth day, local authorities said Saturday. The air in Yanchang County, Yan'an City, does not contain the toxic gases of sulfureted hydrogen, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide, a county government official said. The environment in the area has not been polluted as a result of the blaze that started on July 23, the official ...