Landslide Vote for Modi Raises Expectations for Change in India 莫迪大获全胜印度民众期望高 WASHINGTON Hes been called polarizing, efficient and autocratic - often in the same sentence. No Indian politician has generated so much attention...
Report Says Health Workers Are Targets Health workers are frequently becoming targets in countries undergoing conflict or civil unrest. A new report says since 2012, hundreds have been attacked in dozens of countries.Human Rights Watch and the Safegu...
Muslim Reaction to Schoolgirl Abductions Debated 穆斯林对女生绑架的讨论 WASHINGTON The faces of young girls held captive by Islamist militants have fueled anger and shock around the world and raised questions about why more Muslim leaders...
Landmark Desegregation Ruling Marks 60th Anniversary 美国废除种族隔离统治标志60周年 WASHINGTON Sixty years ago, the highest court in the United States changed the face of education. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled t...
Is There A 'Right to Be Forgotten'? 欧洲法院称谷歌应尊重被遗忘权 The so-called right to be forgotten is being debated after the European Court of Justice ruled that the Internet search engine Google must sometimes, on request, remove li...
Critics Question Obama Doctrine 批评者们质疑奥巴马主义 WHITE HOUSE President Barack Obama's foreign policy has come under criticism, not just from Republican lawmakers and conservative pundits, but also from centrists who accuse the presid...
Ukraine's Far Right Candidate Reflects Mainstream Nationalist Views 乌克兰极右候选人反映主流民族主义者的观点 KYIV Ukraines Svoboda party, which means freedom in Ukrainian, espouses an ultra-nationalist, anti-Russian agenda, and it...
New Robotic Arm Can Grasp Moving Objects An international team of engineers based in Switzerland built a robotic arm that learned to perform complex movements. The term robotic arm covers a variety of mechanical devices from robots that weld automoti...
Oxfam Warns of South Sudan Hunger Crisis 乐施会警告南苏丹会出现饥荒 Oxfam International says a massive and rapid surge in aid is needed for South Sudan. Otherwise, it says, millions of people are at risk of what it calls catastrophic lev...
US Lawmakers Examine Response to Boko Haram Abductions CAPITOL HILL The Obama administration says it is taking action to help rescue more than 250 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted in mid-April, but that it is encountering challenges and obstacles in the...
70-Year-Old College Student Leaves Impact 70岁大学生的影响 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA May is typically a month of college graduations in the United States. But this years college graduation at one Virginia School featured an unusual graduate, s...
US, Britain: Tough Sanctions Against Russia if Ukraine Vote Is Disrupted LONDON U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and British Foreign Secretary William Hague say the United States and European Union will hit Russia with far tougher economic sanction...
Top 5 Countdown for Week Ending May 17 This is the Top Five Countdown! Were hitting the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, for the week ending May 17, 2014. I was happy last week, I'm walking on air this week: all the...
Europe Raises Stakes With Tour of Former Soviet States LONDON The President of the European Council Herman van Rompuy visited Georgia Wednesday - the latest stop on a tour of former Soviet states which aim to sign Association Agreements with the Euro...
UN Syria Envoy Brahimi to Resign 联合国叙利亚问题特使赫达尔卜拉希米辞职 WASHINGTON The United Nations and Arab League mediator on the conflict in Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, plans to resign his post after a nearly two-year effort that...
