The U.S. House of Representatives passed a Senate bill on Tuesday night, giving the final congressional approval to the bipartisan compromise to avert the "fiscal cliff."
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara announced Tuesday that a period of national mourning will be held for the victims of the New Year's Eve stampede in Abidjan that claimed 60 lives and caused more than 200 others injured.
While the nation was mourning the death of a 23-year-old medical student who was gang raped two weeks ago in the Indian capital, a 42-year-old woman was murdered Saturday after being allegedly raped in the eastern state of West Bengal, reported local media Monday.
U.S. lawmakers in the upper house of Congress on Sunday were attempting to strike a last- minute deal to solve the so-called "fiscal cliff", but the fate of the negotiations still remained in doubt.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was hospitalized with blood clot, and is being treated with anti-coagulant, her spokesman said Sunday night.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday urged Congress Republicans to come up with a plan that both chambers of the legislature could pass, so as to avert the impending "fiscal cliff."
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he saw no reason not to sign into law a bill banning adoption of Russian children by U.S. foster families.
Former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has been summoned as a witness for questioning in a fraud case, the Russian Investigative Committee said Friday.
The visiting international envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, continued his meetings Wednesday in Syria's capital Damascus in the hope of reaching a solution to the prolonged crisis amid nationwide ongoing violence and clashes.
Bush, 88, who had been hospitalized for about a month with bronchitis, has been in intensive care since Sunday and is now on a liquids-only diet, local TV channel KHOU said.
Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi said Wednesday that he is currently discussing a cabinet reshuffle with Prime Minister Hesham Qandil.
The British Environment Agency has issued about 160 flood warning for England and Wales, and 31 for Scotland.
A high-ranking official of the largest gun-rights organization in the United States, the National Rifle Association, on Sunday refused to support new gun-control legislation, but insisted the group's push for putting armed guards in schools in response to the Dec.14 school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
The UN nuclear watch dog and Iran reached a preliminary agreement on structured approach at the meeting in Tehran last Thursday over Iran's disputed nuclear activities, diplomats said on Thursday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a gun control task force led by Vice President Joe Biden. The inter-agency task force is charged with guiding the administration's continuing response to calls of gun control after the Newtown, Connecticut, massacre.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that he and the House Speaker John Boehner need to bridge a gap of "a few hundred billion dollars" on the "fiscal cliff" talks and expressed hope to strike a deal before Christmas.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday renewed his call urging President Barack Obama and Congress to impose tougher restrictions on guns following a horrific shooting rampage an elementary school in Newtown, the U.S. state of Connecticut, Friday, which left 28 people dead, including 20 children aged 6 to 7.
简体中文
