TOKYO, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Japan and the United States on Monday held their first meeting of the Comprehensive Dialogue on Space and agreed to cooperate in monitoring ships from space, local media report. In a joint statement after the meeting, the...
MEXICO CITY, May 18 (Xinhua) -- The Mexican government signed an agreement with the non-governmental group TRAFFIC on Tuesday to exchange information about illegal seizures of flora and fauna species in Mexico. The agreement with the wildlife trade m...
The U.S. government says it is going to monitor the sharply rising gasoline prices in the country to see if anyone is profiting illegally(非法地) . The country's top legal official, Attorney General Eric Holder, said Thursday that officials from s...
Some estimates say pirates collected more than $100 million in ransoms in last two years alone Cathy Majtenyi | Nairobi 21 May 2010 An upscale house in Nairobi Real estate prices in Kenya's capital have doubled, even tripled, in the past few years, a...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 03 December 2007 Election monitors from the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe say Sunday's parliamentary balloting in Russia was unfair and failed to meet democratic election standa...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 16 November 2007 The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) says it will not monitor parliamentary elections in Russia next month due to official restrictions imposed by that country. VOA Correspondent Pet...
By Jim Fry Washington, D.C. 20 July 2007 A non-profit organization in Washington, DC is exposing more than 100 websites run by jihadist organizations but hosted by Internet service providers in the U.S. The Middle East Media Research Institute is pub...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 13 September 2006 The International Campaign to Ban Landmines reports dramatic progress in de-mining around the world. But landmines still inflict a terrible toll in 58 countries worldwide, says the campaign group in its annual...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 23 June 2006 U.S. officials say a program to track, potentially, tens-of-thousands of financial transactions is an important part of anti-terrorist efforts carried out since the September 11, 2001, al-Qaida attacks in th...
Alex Belida U.S. defense officials are closely monitoring developments in Sudan's troubled Darfur region but say there are no plans at present for any military response to the humanitarian crisis ther...