The United States pledged Wednesday to accept more refugees fleeing from wars in Syria and elsewhere, even as Europe unveiled a mandatory country-by-country quota plan to resettle 160,000 migrants. After meeting with lawmakers in Congress, U.S. Secre

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Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is right that the current refugee crisis is forcing Europe to consider whether it can live up to its own, self-proclaimed values. Unfortunately, the answer is likely to be No. 德国总理安格拉默克尔(Angel

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默克尔会见乌克兰反对派领导人 BERLIN, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Ukrainian opposition leaders here on Monday, her spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement posted on the German government's website.

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默克尔领导的保守党成赢家 BERLIN, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), emerged as the biggest winner in Sunday's fe

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy made an impassioned appeal for saving the euro currency union and outlined the broad framework of what he thinks must be done. Sarkozy's speech in the southern city of Toulon comes as the clock ticks down to finding a

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德国不承认克里米亚公投结果 BERLIN, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Germany will not recognize the outcome of a referendum held in Crimea and called for a quick move of an observer mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (

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EDINBURGH, Britain, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier(副总理 ) Li Keqiang arrived here on Sunday for a four-day official visit to Britain. Upon his arrival, Li said in a statement delivered at the airport that recent years have seen stea

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French and German leaders met with Italy's new prime minister Thursday, promising to change EU treaties to allow for closer financial integration. They hope such changes will prevent future economic problems like the current eurozone debt crisis. Fre

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BERLIN, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited on Wednesday a violence-hit refugee home, vowing that Germany would have no tolerance for xenophobic attacks on asylum-seekers. Far-right protesters booed the chancellor as she arriv

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The state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is something of a backwater. 梅克伦堡-前波莫瑞州(Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,以下简称梅前州)有点儿闭塞。 Otto von Bismarck is said to have quipped that, if the world was about to end, he woul

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Chinas premier international development bank has lost one of its five vice-presidents less than nine months after opening its doors for business, according to the institutions president. 中国最看重的国际开发银行在投入运营不到9个月

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LOS CABOS, MEXICO - President Barack Obama is welcoming statements by Europe's major economic powers that they will work toward a plan for growth and an integrated banking system. The president spoke Tuesday, at the end of the annual Group of 20 econ

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Great responsibilities will rest on his shoulders one day. But in the meantime, Prince William is going back to being a student. The future king starts a ten-week course in agricultural management at Cambridge University next week. The bespoke course

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With a penchant for leopard print heels, latex thigh-high boots and £1,000-plus designer dresses, Theresa May is no stranger to political power dressing. But the Prime Minister's hairstyle, it turns out, is also the must-have 'power cut' for female

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Ailing Croatia 境况不佳的克罗地亚 A mighty mess 一团糟 Croatia is the EU's newest basket case 克罗地亚是欧盟最新的大麻烦 There is a cloud over Dubrovnik 杜布罗夫尼克上空蒙上阴云 THIS month Dubrovnik, Croatia's pic

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Scotland's referendum endgame 苏格兰公投的收官之战 A war of attrition 消耗战 The peculiar smallness of Scotland's independence debate 关于苏格兰独立的辩论似乎太渺小了 RESEMBLING nothing so much as a pair of irritable golf

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Obituary: Helmut Schmidt Smoke and fire 赫尔穆特施密特 烟与火 Helmut Schmidt, Social Democrat chancellor of West Germany, died on November 10th, aged 96赫尔穆特施密特,西德的社会民主党总理,逝于11月10日,终年96岁H

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David Cameron has blamed fine dining at European summits, including a three-course breakfast, for not being 'beach body ready'. 英国首相戴维?卡梅伦指责欧盟峰会的伙食太好,其中包括超量早餐,导致他一点没为海滩身材

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel toldreporters on Tuesday that the Brexit is irreversible, pouring cold wateron efforts tokeep the United Kingdom inside the European Union. 德国总理默克尔周二对记者说英国脱欧不可逆,这给继续让英

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GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, GERMANYThe leaders of seven major industrialized democracies are meeting for their annual summit, with the first day devoted to the global economy and talks to liberalize trade rules. But the meeting will also focus on the con

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