BEIRUT , April 24 (Xinhua) -- French Justice Minister Rachida Dati and her Lebanese counterpart Ibrahim Najjar signed Friday a declaration of judicial cooperation between their two countries , National News Agency (NNA) reported. The declaration was si …

Special Report: Tension escalates in Iraq Backgrounder: Key figures about Iraq war U.S. anti-war demonstrators stage a protest in New York, the United States, March 19, 2009, marking the 6th anniversary of the start of Iraq w …

JAKARTA, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Floods have inundated 472 houses and a mosque in Lamongan District, East Java province in Indonesia. The flood waters also submerged 123 hectares of crops fields and 34 hectares of rice fields, Antara news agency Friday …

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday sent to Congress a budget that projects the deficit for this year will soar to 1.75 trillion U.S. dollars, reflecting massive spending to pull the nation out of recession. The budg …

JERUSALEM New balance danmark, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Monday approved the construction of 366 housing units in several Jewish settlements in the West Bank, local news service Ynet reported. Besides the 366 new homes New …

Antonin Artaud is known in the English-speaking world almost exclusively as an influence on the theater. He was the inventor of the term “Theater of Cruelty,” which has become a catchword in recent years, especially since the presentation of the Artaud-ins …

To the Editors: We read Jeri Laber’s article “Witch Hunt in Prague” [NYR, April 23] with great interest while we were in Prague studying the implementation in Czechoslovakia of the screening law, the so-called “lustration” process, for the British Helsink …

California corrections officials voted to appeal a Los Angeles judge's ruling that the 2006 statute restricting how close sex offenders can live to parks or schools was unconstitutional. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza concluded that …

Authorities in Orange County were seeking the public's help Wednesday in identifying possible victims of a former youth pastor charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl at his parish in 1993.Joe David Nelms Puma schuh, 47 The north face herren, h …

Xu Beihong as China's first generation of master painters, has been the . Xu Beihong's work in recent years on the market price has become the banner of their auction price rising. Early as 2001, Xu Beihong's Present their works in a limited number in cir …