LONDON, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- The British Armed Forces are “overstretched“ by the long-running operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report released on Monday. “The conflicts in Iraq a...
VIENNA, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- The weekly average oil prices of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) rose to 86.32U.S. dollars per barrel last week, jumped 4.65 dollars from the prices...
OTTAWA, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- One of Canada's most profitable oil and gas companies, EnCana Corp., said Monday it will pay 2.55 billion Canadian dollars (2.73 billion U.S. dollars) to buy out a partner's...
VIENNA, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Serbia objects to the “14-point proposals“ on Kosovo's status drawn up by the Troika of the United States, Russia and the European Union, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Je...
ISLAMABAD, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Life remained absolutely calm in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad Monday and no untoward incident was reported in the wake of proclamation of the emergency order, accor...
CAIRO, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chief of a Chinese car maker announced here on Monday that one more brand model of his company came into the Egyptian market for the first time as an important step forward f...
BEIJING, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Executives of China's major edible oil manufacturers and guild leaders were summoned to Beijing on Monday for a closed door meeting at which the government required them to...
Taxpayers believe the government should raise the current 1,600-yuan (215 U.S. dollars) monthly income tax threshold to improve social equality, a survey published Monday said.Conducted last week by t...
MOSUL, Iraq, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Northern Iraq's Kurdish regional government (KRG) said Monday it has tightened its measures to isolate the separatist Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), a Kurdish source sai...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House on Monday, vowing to step up efforts to fight against Kurdish rebel...