By Andre de Nesnera Washington 15 June 2006 Leaders of the world's major industrialized democracies and Russia, known as the G-8, will meet next month (July 15-17) for the first time on Russian soil. G-8 finance ministers at Mikhailovsky castle in S...
News Spotlight Politics The 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, has died at the age of 93. Reagan fought a ten-year battle with 1)Alzheimer’s disease and had been suffering from 2)pn...
News Spotlight POLITICS In a 1)rambling hour-long radio interview, Russian presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin suggested on Wednesday that for at least part of his five-day absence in Ukraine, he was h...
News Spotlight Politics NEWS 1 Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in today as Governor of California, the state’s first ever to get his job in a re-call election. In a speech from the steps of the stat...
News Spotlight POLITICS Brazil’s government has confirmed press reports that it barred International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors from part of a new 1)uranium enrichment plant near Rio de Janeiro...
News Spotlight Politics News 1 Atop official in the Bush Administration has called for the immediate release of three Americans held hostage in Columbia. John Walters heads the Administration's Office...
News Spotlight (5) News 1 政治 The world leaders have begun arriving in France for the G8 Summit. They will be 1) tackling a wide range of global issues, including 2) strained ties between the U.S....
News Spotlight (4) News 1: 政治 In Canada, Quebec's pro-independence party has suffered a 1) setback. Partial results show the Party Quebecois has lost its bid for a third straight term in the 125-m...
News Spotlight (3) NEWS 1 政治 1) NATO Ambassadors are 2) due to resume talks later today to try to resolve a damaging dispute over its preparations in the event of a war with Bagdad. On Tuesday, me...
News Spotlight (2) NEWS 1 政治 North Korea says it will 1) reactivate nuclear facilities, which were frozen under an agreement with the United States in 1994. A statement from the official North Kor...
