WASHINGTON, March 13 (Xinhua) — The White House on Saturday confirmed that U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev have agreed to sign a nuclear arms control treaty soon.
\”The results of their talks are encouraging, and both leaders are committed to concluding an agreement soon,\” said White House spokesman Mike Hammer, referring [...]
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WASHINGTON, March 17 (Xinhua) — For the first time since U.S. President Barack Obama took office more than one year ago, more Americans disapprove of his job performance than approve, according to [...]
WASHINGTON, March 17 (Xinhua) — For the first time since U.S. President Barack Obama took office more than one year ago, more Americans disapprove of his job performance than approve, according to the latest Gallup survey released on Wednesday.
The survey shows 47 percent of Americans disapproved of his job performance, one percentage point higher than [...]
WASHINGTON, March 17 (Xinhua) — The United States and India signed an agreement Wednesday to strengthen trade and investment ties, concluding a deal that leaders of the two sides announced last year.
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma signed a \”Framework for Cooperation on Trade and Investment\” in [...]
SANTIAGO, March 12 (Xinhua) — After being sworn in as president of Chile on Thursday, Sebastian Pinera worked into night discussing measures with cabinet members for recovery from the 8.8-magnitude quake that hit the South American nation on Feb. 27.
The first Council of Ministers began late Thursday night with the Emergency Committee, governors, military chiefs [...]
Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has claimed responsibility for the botched Christmas Day bombing of a US airliner and [...]
WASHINGTON, March 17 (Xinhua) — U.S. wholesale prices declined by 0.6 percent in February, larger than the economists\’ expectation, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.
The rise in the department\’s Producer Price Index (PPI), a measure of inflation at the wholesale level, followed a 1.4 percent gain in January. Economists had forecasted a 0.2 percent drop.
Excluding the [...]
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LOS ANGELES, March 16 (Xinhua) — Immigration and civil rights groups in the United States are planning to assemble thousands of people in Washington D.C. on Sunday to call for immigration reform.
The demonstrators\’ demands for reform will include better wages and working conditions and more labor protections. Moreover, a fair balance in salary [...]
CARACAS, March 16 (Xinhua) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday attended an opening ceremony of the bi-national residential zone in Aragua state, about 100 km west of Caracas.
According to the state-run Bolivarian News Agency, the two presidents laid the cornerstone for a residential project for five-story buildings which [...]
SANTIAGO, March 16 (Xinhua) — The Chilean justice authorities will investigate why a tsunami warning was too early canceled in the wake of a massive quake while the tsunami later caused a significant loss of life and property, the Supreme Court said Tuesday.
The Navy Oceanography Service (SHOA) and the emergency management agency had issued a [...]
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