ECONOMICS REPORT - European Union Fines Microsoft -- AgainBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, July 14, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The European Commission ruled

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MADRID, May 26 (Xinhua) -- The Spanish national team enjoyed a comfortable 2-0 win over Serbia in their first preparation game for the European Championship this Saturday. Playing in the Swiss town of Saint Gallan, the reigning European and world cha

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Spanish workers took to the streets Thursday to protest sweeping labor reforms, public spending cuts and widespread unemployment. The 24-hour general strike comes a day before government ministers are set to adopt a new austerity budget to meet stric

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New French President Francois Hollande is putting the pieces in place to forge ahead with a new path for the European economic power. Aides announced Wednesday the formation of the new French Cabinet, one day after the Socialist politician was sworn

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The price of oil is rising, hitting a nine-month high on the New York market as traders worry about the disruption in Iranian oil exports. On Sunday, Iran cut off the small amount of oil it supplies to British and French companies. It was a pre-empti

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BRUSSELS, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU)(欧盟 )and the United Nations (UN) are natural allies, UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday. Ban paid his first official visit to the European Parliament(欧洲议会) in Stra

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LIMA, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Saturday his country will offer humanitarian asylum for U.S. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden if asked, according to reports reaching here from La Paz. Morales, who was s

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Helmut Schmidt, the former West German chancellor who steered his country through the world economic crisis and cold war tension of the 1970s and early 1980s has died at the age of 96. 前西德总理、在上世纪70年代至80年代初带领国家挺

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美国国家安全局否认美国在欧洲从事间谍活动 WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander on Tuesday told lawmakers that the recent media reports about the agency's spying on European

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Europe's chief banker says the current operation of the 17-nation euro currency bloc is unsustainable and that it must create a new vision of how it will manage its affairs in the coming years. The head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, sai

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LONDON U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and British Foreign Secretary William Hague say the United States and European Union will hit Russia with far tougher economic sanctions if it tries to disrupt next week's presidential election in Ukraine. Ke

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In The Hague, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has resumed his own defense in his war crimes trial for what he called Serbias just and holy cause against Muslim aggression during the war in Bosnia in the 1990s. But nearly 20 years after it

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Stock markets rallied Friday after European Union leaders agreed on a new bailout for Greece, provided that Athens commits to more austerity measures. But the Greek deal fails to address fundamental problems threatening the future of the 17-member eu

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The Group of 20 leading economies have agreed to boost the resources of the International Monetary Fund to help curb the European debt crisis. European Union President Herman Van Rompuy said the decision was reached Friday at the G20 summit in the Fr

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BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao attended the opening ceremony of the China-EU Year of Youth in Beijing on Wednesday, encouraging young people from China and the EU to build a brighter future for bilateral strategic(战略) par

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The world's two largest aircraft manufacturers have fought yet another round in their six-year legal and political battle over trade subsidies. On Thursday, a World Trade Organization panel said American aircraft manufacturer Boeing received billions

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BRUSSELS, July 8 (Xinhua) -- The European Union's Erasmus mobility program has benefited 3 million students since its launch in 1987, the Commission said here Monday in a press release. Amid high youth unemployment rates in many EU member states, Era

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European officials are moving to add new funding for troubled banks on the continent that are weighed down by the possibility of a Greek default on its debts. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, leader of the country with Europe's strongest economy, len

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CANNES, France, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao met here Wednesday his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on bilateral ties and other issues of common concern, including the Group of 20 summit scheduled for Thursday and Friday. Hu poin

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TEHRAN, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Iran has refused to deliver oil to Greece in Persian Gulf, the local Fars news agency reported on Sunday. The Islamic republic refused to deliver a shipment of 500,000 barrels of crude oil to one of the refineries in Greec

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