US Tornadoes Kill Five People

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Obama's approval rating surges

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is seeing a surge in support among voters, with poll numbers released Tuesday suggesting his approval rating is nearing the 50 percent mark. According to a national survey done by CNN/ORC In

印度热浪死亡人数增至2207

The death toll of the heat wave spreading across India has risen to over 22-hundered. Local meteorological officials report that a high temperature of 47.1 degrees Celsius has been recorded at the country's central state. Professor at Allahabad Unive

Chinese VP meets Obama

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met here Tuesday with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House and delivered to him a letter from Chinese President Hu Jintao. Hu said in the letter that he would like to make jo

奥巴马:我们不屈服于恐惧

We all get old one day. But China, the world's most populous country, is probably ageing faster. According to Hao Fuqing, a senior official from National Development and Reform Commission, China has galloped towards an aged society since the turn of

Obama Seeks Another Arms Deal with Russia

U.S. President Barack Obama says there is room for another arms control deal with Russia. After talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Seoul nuclear summit Monday, Obama said both countries can continue to make progress in cutting stockp

特朗普是美国地产业避税的缩影

Donald Trump loves to disregard political rules. Now he is trying to break yet another: although it has long been customary for American presidential candidates to release their tax returns, Mr Trump is refusing to comply. 唐纳德?特朗普(Donald

Cassano underwent heart operation

ROME, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Antonio Cassano underwent a heart surgery Friday morning to correct a congenital defect which was uncovered this week. The procedure, which took around 30 minutes to complete, is understood to have gone according to plan, the

不确定性阻碍了美国经济发展

不确定性阻碍了美国经济发展 WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve's expansionary monetary policy to some extent has boosted U.S. economic growth, but the U.S. economy and business owners are confronted with great uncerta

U.S. stocks close mixed after Obama releases budget

NEW YORK, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks closed mixed on Monday as investors were digesting the government's budget proposal for fiscal 2012. U.S. President Barack Obama proposed（提议,计划） a budget on Monday, according to which the deficit

President Obama Urges Congress to Act on Jobs Bill

President Barack Obama says a new report that says the rich are getting richer while the middle class struggles shows Republicans in Congress are not paying attention to the economic situation in the United States. Obama said in his weekly address Sa

小卢卡斯否认恶评伊布

PARIS, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Paris Saint-Germain starlet Lucas Moura has claimed he was misunderstood after calling teammate Zlatan Ibrahimovic as difficult and arrogant. The 20-year-old Brazilian used his Twitter account on Tuesday to deny any ill-fe

巴基斯坦发生7.9级地震

BY Misbah Saba Malik, Raheela Nazir ISLAMABAD, April 16 (Xinhua) -- At least 35 people were killed, over 180 others injured and hundreds of houses collapsed when a strong earthquake of 7.9 magnitude jolted parts of southern and southwest Pakistan on

US House Passes Bill to Raise Debt Ceiling

The U.S. House of Representatives late Monday passed a bill to raise the country's debt ceiling in exchange for cuts in government spending - one day ahead of a potential default on America's $14.3 trillion national debt. The action now shifts to the

日本靖国神社祭祀当日发生爆炸

An explosion Monday damaged a public restroom at a controversial shrine in Tokyo that honors Japanese war dead, with police suspecting foul play. No one was injured. 周一，日本参拜靖国神社当场发生爆炸，一个公共卫生间遭到破坏

俄罗斯兴奋剂丑闻告密者电邮被攻击 或受到威胁

Russian whistleblower Yulia Stepanova's electronic account at the World Anti-Doping Agency has been illegally accessed, WADA said last Saturday. 世界反兴奋剂机构上周六宣布，俄罗斯兴奋剂丑闻举报人尤利娅斯特帕诺娃在该机

Chinese divers win three golds at Diving World Series

MOSCOW, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese divers won three golds at the FINA Diving World Series in Moscow Friday, but the Chinese team played cool with the results as many players believed they had not performed their best. China's He Chong, who is an Ol

2014世界杯签仪式将在12月6日举行

ZURICH, March 19 (Xinhua) -- World football governing body FIFA announced Tuesday that the draw for the 2014 World Cup finals will be made on December 6 at Costa do Sauipe, Brazil. It was confirmed at the meeting that the draw for the 2014 World Cup

塞总统要求贷款人解除银行限制

NICOSIA, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Cyprus' President Nicos Anastasiades has made an appeal to the leaders of international lenders to urgently lift controls on bank transactions in a letter made public on Tuesday. Restrictions on bank transactions were int

俄罗斯，塞浦路斯签署债务重组协议

NICOSIA, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Russia and Cyprus signed an agreement restructuring a 2.5-billion-euro (3.3-billion-U.S. dollar) loan, the Cypriot government said in a statement on Thursday. The statement said the restructuring provides for the repayme