Emerging economies such as China, India and South Africa are discovering there is a downside to prosperity. As incomes rise, health can decline. On Monday, the U.N. opens a high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases that usually have been associ...
Top Indian officials say they need to prepare for terrorism threats that may arise both within and outside the country. 印度高级官员说,他们须要准备应付来自印度国内和国外的恐怖主义威胁。 Indian Home Minister P. Chidam...
Thailands recently elected Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has made her first official visit to Cambodia. The one-day trip marks a new start in bilateral relations, which have been poor in recent years. 泰国最近当选的总理英拉西那瓦首次...
Niger says it needs help policing more than six million square meters of desert along its border with Libya. Some members of the former government in Tripoli have fled south to Niger, including one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons. 尼日尔官方表示,他...
For the third time in a week, President Barack Obama is campaigning for his jobs plan in a state that could be crucial to his re-election effort. Meanwhile, a new poll shows that more than half of Americans do not think the plan will help reduce unem...
Ten years ago, the United States homeland came under attack. Islamic terrorists flew hijacked passenger planes into the two World Trade Center towers in New York and another into the Pentagon outside of Washington, D.C. A fourth plane crashed in Penn...
Soon after the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, the U.S. and its NATO allies went to war in Afghanistan to drive the Taliban from power and root out al-Qaida terrorists hiding there. That war is still going strong. 在美国...
Americans on Sunday will mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. New York City is preparing for a day of observances. New York police are imposing massive security for the Sunday ceremony with both Presid...
Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States began a new engagement in the Muslim world. One of the key architects of that engagement is the newly-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker. 2001年9/11恐怖袭击发生后...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday al-Qaida is on the path to defeat and that the United States will not relent until the job is done. 美国国务卿克林顿说,基地组织正走向失败,但美国在任务完成之前,绝不会...