Akhir 1432 / 14 March 2011, SPA -- Use of menthol cigarettes is rising among teenagers and "very high" for minority youth, U.S. government advisers said in part of a draft report released on Monday, according to Reuters.
More than 80 percent of (...)
Akhir 1432 / 14 March 2011, SPA -- Countries need to pick up the pace of negotiations to meet a political goal of finishing world trade talks by the end of the year, the head of the World Trade Organization said on Monday, according to (...)
Akhir 1432 / 14 March 2011, SPA -- US government officials on Monday said they
were confident in the safety of US nuclear power plants and rejected
calls from some lawmakers to impose a moratorium on the building of
new plants, according to (...)
Akhir 1432 H. / 08 March 2011, SPA -- The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday welcomed the announcement that Serbia and Kosovo will hold high-level direct talks for the first time since Kosovo declared independence in (...)
Akhir 1432 H. / 08 March 2011, SPA -- The number of Americans who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth rose at the end of last year, preventing many people from selling their homes in an already weak housing market, business (...)
Akhir 1432 H. / 08 March 2011, SPA -- Twenty-one of 23 oil workers kidnapped in Colombia have been rescued by authorities, Colombian Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera said Tuesday.
Troops had been searching for the workers since Monday, when they (...)
Akhir 1432 H. / 08 March 2011, SPA -- The Ivory Coast ambassador to the U.S. asked the United States to help his war-torn West African country following disputed elections.
"We want to launch an appeal to you through Congress: assist Cote (...)