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Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa praised Tuesday the establishment of the Zambia-China Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone, which he said would provide more job opportunities and help improve the livi...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Over 250 former detainees of Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison have filed a suit against a private U.S. military contractor that they say participated in a conspiracy ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- The White House said on Tuesday that democracy would “soon“ come to Cuba, one day after ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced that he would not cling to office...

The dollar rose against the yen on Tuesday as traders covered short positions and took profits ahead of year-end.The U.S. currency edged lower against the euro as a Commerce Department report showed t...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the world's largest investment bank, said Tuesday its fourth-quarter net income rose by 2 percent from a year earlier.The company's profit could beat expectations for the eig...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cases of brutality inflicted by U.S. police officers are on the rise, according to Justice Department statistics revealed by USA Today Tuesday. Cases in which police an...

MOSCOW, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Russia announced on Tuesday its scheduled lifting of a two-year ban on Polish meat supplies in an effort to improve strained relations with Poland while Warsaw pledged to d...

by Xinhua writer Wang Jiangang NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- The day after Thanksgiving, dubbed Black Friday because it traditionally marks the day when retailers finally move out of the red and into ...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks to reporters at a news conference in Baghdad, Dec. 18, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid a surprise visit to Ira...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. federal judge ordered a hearing Tuesday on whether the Bush administration violated a court order by destroying CIA interrogation videos of two al-Qaida suspects...