MILAN, Italy, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- European Commission（委员会） President Jose Manuel Barroso said Saturday Europe could no longer postpone fiscal consolidation and structural reforms in order to return to growth after the economic crisis. In a...
While in Korea, Gov. Mike Smith of Utah was relaxing in the VIP lounge the Seoul airport, awaiting his flight to Japan. At the same moment , his press secretary, Jenny Varela, was being told at the ticket counter that she had no ticket. After insisti...
U.S. officials said Monday they expect North Korea to make its long-awaited declaration of its nuclear program this week, probably Thursday. The action would open the way to the next phase of the six-party deal under which Pyongyang is to scrap its...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 19 June 2008 The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is calling for urgent aid for thousands of farm families that suffered losses during last month's cyclone in Burma. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, while aid experts s...
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 29 February 2008 The United Nations is asking for $32 million in immediate humanitarian aid for the Central African Republic (CAR). The UN's humanitarian coordinator, Toby Lanzer, says the aid will help stabilize a volat...
By David Gollust Annapolis, Maryland 28 November 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is pledging urgent follow-up work to Tuesday's Israeli-Palestinian agreement in Annapolis, Maryland to resume final-status peace negotiations after a seven...
By Efam Dovi Accra 09 February 2007 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has called for urgent action to eradicate guinea worm disease in Ghana. Guinea worm is a water-born worm infection that is contracted when people drink water containing the worm's...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 October 2006 The humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders, says new drugs to combat extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis are urgently needed. The group is calling for the World Health Organization to take the l...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 09 May 2006 Condoleezza Rice Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has urged the U.N. Security Council to act quickly to stop the genocide and humanitarian crisis in Dar...
While in Korea, Gov. Mike Smith of Utah was relaxing in the VIP lounge the Seoul airport, awaiting his flight to Japan. At the same moment , his press secretary, Jenny Varela, was being told at the ti...
