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　　OTTAWA, April 14 (Xinhua) -- A composite image of a dark matter web, which is believed to connect galaxies, was captured for the first time by Canadian researchers.The false color image, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on Wednesday, shows two galaxies, in white, connected by a bridge of dark matter in the red region. The two galaxies are about 40 light years apart.&For decades, researchers have been predicting the existence of dark-matter filaments between galaxies that act like a web-like superstructure connecting galaxies together,& said Mike Hudson, professor of astronomy at the University of Waterloo, in a statement on the university website.&This image moves us beyond predictions to something we can see and measure,& he said in the statement.Dark matter, which makes up an estimated 25 percent of the universe, can not be directly observed because it does not shine, reflect or interact with light, but its existence and properties are inferred from its gravitational effects such as the motions of visible matter.By using weak gravitational lensing, Hudson and his co-author Seth Epps measured the effect that dark matter has on light and created a composite image showing the presence of the mysterious substance.The technique not only enables us to see the existence of dark-matter filaments in the universe, but to observe the extent to which these filaments connect galaxies, Epps said.　　PYONGYANG, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- A delegation of high-ranking officials of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), including its second-in-command Hwang Pyong So, made a surprise trip to South Korea for the closing ceremony of the Incheon Asian Games Saturday.The visit, which also includes a meeting with South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae, coincides with the seventh anniversary of the signing of the October 4 Declaration, a historic document on the advancement of ties between the two neighboring countries.The DPRK's decision to send high-level officials to South Korea on this significant day is widely considered a signal to the rest of the world that Pyongyang has put priority on inter-Korean ties and is willing to strive for mending the relations.WIDE COVERAGE OF ASIAD IN PYONGYANGWinning 11 gold medals as of 18:30 Seoul time, the DPRK athletes without any doubt have done a brilliant job in the Games, especially in weight-lifting competitions, where world records were once and again being broken.The whole country is immersed in joy and excitement for the achievements made by their players. In the DPRK, recorded videos of football, weight-lifting and judo competitions, where DPRK players had a good performance, are constantly being played on the Korean Central Television.A student from the DPRK's Kim Chaek University of Technology told the official KCNA news agency that the Asian Games has become the most heated topic among university students during the 15-day sports event.FIRST HIGH-LEVEL CONTACT AT ASIADSouth Korea has hosted the Asian Games three times altogether in history, with the other two respectively in 2002 in Busan and 1986 in Seoul. The DPRK took part in the games held in South Korea twice except for 1986.In 2002, the DPRK dispatched a massive delegation composed of a 300-member cheering squad and 184 athletes to Busan and won nine gold, 11 silver and 13 bronze, ranking ninth in the medal table. But no high-level officials paid visits to South Korea during the games.In the Guangzhou Asiad in 2010 and Doha Asiad in 2006, no senior-level contact was ever held between South Korea and the DPRK.Analysts say the rare visit of high-ranking DPRK officials to the Asian Games means a significant and concrete step forward for improving north-south relations, despite Pyongyang's recent criticisms of South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her DPRK-related policies.During the past few weeks, Pyongyang has constantly criticized Park for her DPRK-related remarks at the 69th UN General Assembly and her policies toward the DPRK during the 15-day sports competitions.On Sept. 20, a spokesperson for the DPRK delegation to the Asian Games criticized Seoul for denying government support for the dispersion of anti-DPRK leaflets, which landed in DPRK via balloons.The spokesperson said that efforts to foster a favorable atmosphere for improving ties must be made above all else, in order to put an end to the division and protect the security of the nation.On Sept. 26, the Committee for Peaceful Reunification of Korea slammed Park's first keynote speech at the UN, saying her remarks posed &a blatant challenge to the dignity and social system of the DPRK and an extremely dangerous provocation driving the bedeviled north-south relations into a total catastrophe.&In her speech, Park called on the international community to tear down the world's last remaining wall separating the north and south of Korea and called for worldwide attention to addressing human rights issue in the DPRK, which the DPRK said has never existed.In the meantime, the DPRK suggested carrying out the historic June 15 Joint Declaration and October 4 Declaration and urged Seoul to respond to the proposal of achieving reunification through the founding of the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo, a loose form of federation, an offer first brought up by Kim Il Sung at the sixth congress of the Workers' Party of Korea in 1980.The DPRK and South Korea agreed in the two declarations on a series of issues of common interests, including joint efforts to work for mutual respect and trust, easing of military tensions, arrangement for reunions of separated families and increase of cooperation in various areas.The Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo, which enables both sides to exercise regional autonomy and different ideologies, offers the &most realistic way to reunify the country peacefully and fairly in line with the will, wishes and interests of the whole nation,& according to a statement released by the spokesman for the Disarmament and Peace Institute of the DPRK Foreign Ministry Wednesday.　　ROME, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Italian Upper House gave its final approval to the 2017 budget law on Wednesday, clearing the way for the announced resignation of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.The senate passed the bill with 166 votes in favor, 70 votes against, and 1 abstention. The budget is worth 26.5 billion euros (28.4 billion U.S. dollars).Before the final voting, Renzi's cabinet had called a confidence vote on the provision, which it won with 173 votes in favor and 108 against.Renzi announced his resignation on Monday after suffering a defeat in a referendum on a cabinet-backed constitutional reform held on Sunday.Italian President Sergio Mattarella, however, asked Renzi to leave his office only after the budget law was approved by parliament.Renzi was now expected to formally hand in his resignation later on Wednesday.Renzi's center-left Democratic Party (PD), which holds the majority of the seats in parliament, was in fact to gather its leadership on Wednesday afternoon in order to outline its political position.The outgoing prime minister would address the meeting, and was expected to advocate a request of early elections, or a large &government of national responsibility& including all major political forces.Once Renzi's resignation becomes formal, Mattarella will launch a round of political consultations with all party leaders in order to appoint a new prime minister.Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan, and President of the Senate Pietro Grasso, were both seen as possible candidates for the post.Some opposition forces have also called for immediate elections, but the option appears very unlikely, since the current electoral law needs to be changed, or at least amended, before going to the polls.Mattarella was also much against early elections, according to local media.　　JERUSALEM, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his support for dispersing the Knesset (parliament) and conducting early elections amid a coalition crisis.During a press conference at his Jerusalem office, Netanyahu also said he has ordered to fire Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Finance Minister Yair Lapid, who he said plotted against him by outspokenly criticizing his policies.&I cannot lead the country within this current government,& Netanyahu told reporters Tuesday evening. &From the get-go, this government was oppositional, it had frictions and opposite directions and it was run under threats and ultimatums,& he added, saying Livni and Lapid have planned a coup d'&tat.He mentioned Lapid's objection to the Israeli government's decision to expand settlements in east Jerusalem, and said Livni had met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in May, contrary to his instructions.Answering a reporter who questioned why Netanyahu did not fire right-wing hardline ministers, like Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, who had slammed Netanyahu's conduct in the recent military campaign in Gaza, Netanyahu said the two stopped making such statements after they were called to order.The prime minister also denied that he had asked ultra-Orthodox Knesset members to join the coalition instead of Yesh Atid party, as was reported in several media outlets.Livni told Channel 10 news following the Prime Minister's speech that he is acting like a &coward& and busy with &petty politics& rather than facing the &major risks& Israel is facing, adding she hopes that the citizens of Israel &will see beyond this scheme.&Ministers from the Yesh Atid party, led by Lapid, convened Tuesday evening in Tel Aviv following the recent developments.Science Minister Ya'akov Perry from the party told the Channel 2 news that Netanyahu made a &cowardly, hesitant& speech that shows he is hysteric and motivated by political motives.Finance Minister Yair Lapid said earlier on Tuesday, prior to Netanyahu's statement, that the prime minister is dragging Israel to &unnecessary elections& for personal political gains.According to a poll conducted by the Channel 10 news, 51 percent of Israelis object to conducting early elections, with the estimated cost of about 2 billion shekels (half a billion U.S. dollars.)On Monday night, Netanyahu and Lapid met amid the recent strife in a &harsh& meeting, according to sources, in which the prime minister set stern conditions for Lapid to stay in the coalition.Following the meeting, members of the Likud party said they would support the upcoming Knesset vote calling for early elections, initiated by the left wing Labor and Meretz parties. The voting will take place in several rounds on Wednesday and Monday.The hard-line right and center factions of Netanyahu's government have been fighting over multiple issues, including the contentious Jewish Nation bill and other nationalistic law proposals, which Netanyahu's critics say are part of his efforts to win the votes of hard line Likud members amid the upcoming internal elections in the party.In addition, there have been fights over Israel's expansion of settlements in east Jerusalem, the government's handling of the escalating security situation and the tensions over the holy site of Temple Mount in Jerusalem, as well as the collapse of the peace talks with the Palestinian Authority and the 2015 budget.If a majority of the Knesset members will vote for early elections, the law states that the Knesset will be dispersed and elections must be held in three months.Thus Israelis will have go to the polls and vote for a party, and then Knesset members will recommend a candidate most eligible to form a new government.　　ATHENS, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras submitted his Leftist government's resignation on Thursday evening, asking for a fresh mandate in snap general elections this autumn to implement the third bailout and lead Greece to the exit of the debt crisis.&The popular mandate I received on January 25th has run its course. Now the sovereign people of Greece must weign in,& Tsipras said in a televised statement shortly before formally handing his resignation to the President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos.The date of the ballots has still not been clarified, although government sources insisted that the elections will most likely take place on Sept. 20.It will be the third time in less than a year that Greek voters will reach polling stations, after January's national polls that brought the Leftist- led ruling coalition with the Right- wing Independent Greeks in power and the July 5 referendum on the draft proposal Greece's international lenders had proposed as basis for the third Greek bailout in five years.As opposition parties and rebels within his Radical Left SYRIZA party in their first reactions to the announcement accused the young leader of using the snap elections as a means of resolving inter-party disputes, media commentators and political analysts in Athens talked about a risky gamble.During Thursday's address, Tsipras said that he felt it was his moral duty to ask Greek people's opinion again on the way forward after the signing of the third bailout his government reached with lenders this summer to keep Greece afloat and in the euro zone.He admitted that the final agreement for the disbursement of 86 billion euro loans in exchange of more painful austerity and reform measures over the next three years was not what his party aimed for. He argued however that it was the best possible result in difficult times after marathon tough negotiations with lenders.&If he had indeed succeeded over the past few months, he had no reason to call for early elections,& Vangelis Meimarakis, the leader of the main opposition conservative New Democracy party told media in a press conference on Thursday night.He blasted Tsipras for leading the country at the brink of default and Grexit with his risky tactics in negotiations with creditors and of &achieving& to close the banks for weeks and introduce capital controls since June 29 that have dealt a serious blow on the ailing economy.The socialists and the centrist River (Potami) party backed the argument, criticizing the Premier's choice to force early elections as an &admission of inability to rule& and a &tragic& move that could harm the country's interests.According to political analysts Tsipras took the step with the belief that he can emerge stronger from the polls, strengthen his hold on SYRIZA following a party mutiny over the bailout and create a more stable coalition to implement the program.Tsipras' critics expressed concern that the elections could prolong political uncertainty and derail, or at least delay, the implementation of bailout commitments necessary for the release of further vital aid to Greece in coming months to restore stability and kick start growth to overcome the five year crisis.A few hours before the government's resignation, Greece had received the first 26 billion euro installment of the latest bailout on time to make a loan repayment to the European Central Bank that fell due on Thursday and cover other financial obligations. Ten billion euros were allocated for the recapitalization of Greek banks and one billion for the payment of overdue obligations of the Greek government to the private sector to ease the pressure on real economy.SYRIZA's Left Platform that headed the rebellion against the new bailout in recent votes in the parliament issued a statement on Thursday night warning Tsipras that &his effort to catch us off guard will fail.&The dissidents were expected to form a new anti-bailout party within the next few days that could win critical votes from SYRIZA.Regardless of which party wins the elections, it was most certain that in a fragmented political landscape in Greece in recent years no party will secure clear parliamentary majority and will need to seek coalition partners.Meimarakis stressed on Thursday night that his intention was to make all efforts so that the snap elections will be the last choice and not the first.Under the Greek Constitution should a government resign, the President must hand an exploratory mandate to each of the leaders of the three largest parties represented in parliament to try to form a government from the current parliament.Tsipras stated during his meeting with Pavlopoulos that he will not use the mandate and asked instead the President to initiate procedures for the immediate formation of a caretaker government led by the head of the Supreme Court to take the country to elections.Under the Constitution each mandate lasts three days. Meimarakis said that he will make full use of his mandate and try to form a unity government.If he fails to do so within three days, under the Constitution the mandate passes over to the third largest party elected in parliament which today is the far-Right Golden Dawn.If all efforts end fruitless, the President calls early elections which must be conducted within a month.The process of the exploratory mandates could be avoided with the agreement of political leaders and a caretaker government be appointed within hours.Pavlopoulos reassured welcoming Tsipras that he will exercise his duties according to the Constitution to ensure that the country will meet its commitments under the recent deal and there will be no risk for its course in European Union.　　LONDON, July 8 (Xinhua) -- A British government minister on Monday welcomed the start of the first round of negotiations between the European Union (EU) and the United States on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.&I welcome the start of negotiations between the EU and U.S. which marks an important step forward in opening up trade between the world's two largest trading blocs,& said Lord Green, Britain's minister for trade and investment.Green added, &Last month at the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland, leaders agreed to launch this landmark trade deal which will fire up economies on both sides of the Atlantic and drive growth and prosperity around the world.&Green said a deal could create up to 2 million jobs in the EU and the U.S. and could be worth 10 billion pounds (14.9 billion U.S. dollars) to the British economy.Dr. Ramon Pacheco Pardo, a lecturer in European and International Studies at King's College, London and an expert on EU-U.S. relations told Xinhua that in similar Free Trade Agreements (FTA) in the past, the U.S. was almost always able to leverage a favorable position.&The U.S. has won more than the counterpart, maybe with the only exception of the FTA with South Korea. So, I think it is very likely that the U.S. will end up benefiting more,& he said.&So, even though this may be a win-win situation for both the EU and the U.S., I think it is clear some EU member states are going to suffer because even within the EU they are not competitive and it might be difficult for them to compete against American companies -- for example the agricultural sector, which is part of the agreement,& he added.Dr. Pacheco Pardo said an agreement would be very significant, and would set the rules of the game for any future FTAs either the U.S. or the EU might sign.&This is going to be leverage for both of them for signing and discussing future FTAs, or even the Doha Round of trade negotiations when they start again,& he said.&This means more leverage for EU and U.S., and less for China and the other emerging economies,& he said.He added, &I think it also means that when it comes to the Trans-Pacific Partnership that the U.S. is discussing in Asia Pacific, and if in the end China decided to join this initiative, its position is going to be weak.&&The issue is going to add pressure in many different areas across the world. I think it is not the main objective, but it is one of the American objectives of the FTA,& said Dr. Pacheco Pardo.TWO LARGEST ECONOMIESAny agreement would be highly significant because they involve the two largest economies in the world, the EU and the U.S., he said.Dr. Pacheco Pardo said, &I would say that it is a win-win situation for both parties, insofar as this is going to allow European and American companies to compete on an equal footing in each other's market.&But he said there are several obstacles to agreement, the most important one being the opposition of several European countries -- France, Italy and some Eastern European nations -- that are unwilling to fully back such a deal.In addition, the recent allegations of U.S. spying on the EU has had a harmful effect.Dr. Pacheco Pardo said, &The big political scandal which we have now about the U.S. spying on the EU which has made many Europeans think that the U.S. doesn't really trust the European Union ... has a spill-over effect going into these talks.&He said he did not expect talks to proceed quickly unless the U.S. and the Germans pushed for greater urgency.&That would see Germany taking over a leading role in the European Union. Germany has elections coming up so we will have to see first of all what government is elected, whether that will be Angela Merkel will come back or whether it will be somebody else. So, domestic German politics could have an effect,& said Dr. Pacheco Pardo.There was also opposition in parts of the Republican Party in the U.S. which might block a speedy agreement.　　WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday launched a three-week coordinated campaign with Democrats at Capitol Hill and outside allies to reboot his signature healthcare overhaul, following two months of intense media coverage of the federal healthcare website failures.The president, flanked by 19 individuals whom said they had benefited from the Affordable Care Act, played defense for his signature healthcare overhaul at a White House event, trying to re- ignite efforts to sell his message.&My main message today is we are not going back,& Obama said.He said that the &poor execution& of the rollout of the Healthcare.gov, a federal on-line marketplace that serves as the centerpiece of the healthcare overhaul, had &clouded& the fact that people could benefit from the law.The federal on-line marketplace, serving consumers in 36 states, is key to Obama's signature healthcare overhaul aiming to get more uninsured Americans coverage.However, the website was almost out of service during the first two weeks after it was launched on Oct. 1 and has been plagued by technical glitches. Many consumers have reported difficulties in signing up and getting enrolled. Obama's personal and political approval ratings have taken a beating since the website's glitch- riven debut.The Obama administration said on Monday the technical team had already met its self-imposed deadline on Nov. 30 to fix the website. The officials said the website can now handle its original intended volume of 50,00 con-current users and a total of 800,000 visitors a day.In his remarks on Tuesday, Obama stressed that the website is & now working well for the vast majority of users.&&We're not repealing it as long as I'm president,& he added. &I want everybody to be clear about that.&&The bottom line is this law is working and will work into the future,& said Obama.The event was the first of many in a &renewed effort to refocus the public and the public's attention on the benefits of the law,& said White House spokesman Jay Carney Tuesday in a daily briefing.Carney said that in the coming days, the president and other White House officials would talk about existing benefits under Obamacare through &a number of different venues,& including press events and social media advertising campaigns.In the coordinated fresh push, the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday launched a new website highlighting the negative consequences if the Republicans succeed in repealing Obamacare.More events are expected from now through Dec. 23, the enrollment deadline for Jan. 1 insurance coverage, according to the Affordable Care Act.The 2010 Affordable Care Act, which passed with no Republicans' support, has been a long-time controversial issue in Washington and across the country. The Republicans, in particular, have never been back down from their efforts to dismantle the healthcare overhaul or delay its implementation.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday the president's &campaign-style event won't solve the myriad problems facing consumers under Obamacare.&&It's not just a broken website, this bill is fundamentally flawed,& said House Speaker John Boehner Tuesday.　　CHICAGO, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Gold futures on the COMEX Division of the New York Mercantile Exchange surged to record level on Monday, the sixth straight rise in a row, amid increasing safe- haven demands as investors feared global economy would further worsen.The most active gold contract for December delivery added 39.7 U.S. dollars, or 2.1 percent, to 1,891.9 dollars per ounce.Market analysts said investors' concerns about the validity and efficacy of the U.S. debt deal, uncertainty about further deficit reduction suggestions as well as the worsening of the European debt crisis all helped push gold even higher.The Federal Reserve would hold its annual symposium this week to discuss the economic outlook, amid speculation that it may signal a third round of asset purchases to boost the faltering recovery.Aside from economic factors, the growing geopolitical tensions also added to the bullish sentiment, as Libya rebels have controlled parts of the capital Tripoli, pushing the Gaddafi regime to the edge.As a result, investors rushed to gold market for safety investment. The gold holding of world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, SPDR Gold Trust, increased four metric tons to 1,290 metric tons on Friday, which is closer to the record of 1, 320 metric tons.Gold price has hiked for six sessions and has settled at a record for five of the past six trading days. On Monday, it closed a bit below the 1,900-dollar mark and most analysts believed that this mark would be broken &sooner or later.&Silver for September delivery gained 89.3 cents, or 2.1 percent, to 43.325 dollars per ounce. Platinum for October delivery rose 30. 8 dollars, or 1.6 percent, to 1905.7 dollars per ounce.　　The Democratic presidential candidates said Saturday they are focused on the U.S. economy and defeating the Islamic State group as their top priorities.Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said the United States cannot be thought of as the police of the world, and that the fight against Islamic State needs a coalition that includes Russia and Muslim troops from the region. He said he would tell Saudi Arabia to focus on Islamic State instead of fighting in Yemen, and for Qatar to comit resources to battling the terror threat that is on its doorstep instead of spending millions of dollars on the World Cup.Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also supports a coalition effort, and said there is a need for support from Sunni and Kurdish forces. She said it would be a strategic mistake to send U.S. ground troops back to the region, as that's exactly what the militants want to see.The third candidate, former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, highlighted the need to form new alliances for modern threats, and pointed to the work the African Union has done in Somalia.Clinton, a frequent target of attacks by Republicans in their debates, said Republican front-runner Donald Trump is the &best recruiter& for the Islamic State group. She said responding to terror threats with &bigotry& is not in the country's best interest, and that it is important to make sure Muslims do not feel marginalized at a time when the U.S. needs them most.She also said there is a need for increased vetting of refugees seeking to enter the United States, while O'Malley said if the refugee crisis gets worse, the United States should be accepting even more.Breaking the banksBoth Sanders and O'Malley advocated breaking up the nation's largest banks, saying they play a negative role in the nation's economy. Sanders, who prides himself on raising money from individuals instead of large corporate entities, said there is a need to deal with the &recklessness and illegal behavior& on Wall Street and to raise the country's minimum wage.Clinton, too, said wages need to rise and that people need to feel like their hard work is being rewarded instead of feeling like the economic system is &rigged.& She also said she wants to build on the success of President Barack Obama's healthcare initiative, but that there is not enough competition or oversight of health insurance companies, and costs have gone up too much.Sanders advocated a universal healthcare system, citing higher per-person costs than places like Britain and France. He also accused drug companies of &bribing& Congress.The issue of gun control brought passionate responses from all three candidates, with O'Malley attacking Sanders' record and branding Clinton as inconsistent in her views. Clinton said she agrees on the need for common sense gun measures, and that Republicans will not admit a problem even exists. Sanders said nothing will be accomplished unless there is a consensus, and that he has stood up to the pro-gun lobby.Sanders apologizesSanders was asked first to address the breach of a key Clinton voter database by a member of his staff, and apologized to her. She accepted the apology and said it was important to move forward. O'Malley, too, said there are bigger issues and the related bickering is the kind of distraction that plagues government.Late Friday, Sanders filed a federal lawsuit aimed at forcing the Democratic National Committee to restore its voter database access, which the committee had suspended after Sanders' workers improperly viewed proprietary information belonging to the Clinton campaign. As the feud erupted, the Sanders' camp acknowledged the breach and called its campaign staffer's role in it &unacceptable.& The staffer was later fired.Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said the Sanders campaign had conducted 25 searches of proprietary information in a 50-state data base, after a DNC digital firewall separating Clinton and Sanders accounts was breached. He also accused the Sanders staff of saving the Clinton data.However, the DNC later agreed to restore Sanders' access to his campaign's data, after it said the Sanders camp had provided an accounting of how the Clinton information was used and whether it was disposed of.The squabble thrust into the open long-standing suspicions expressed by Sanders and his supporters that the national party is unfairly working to support Clinton's candidacy.Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver pointed to the party's limited number of debates at low-viewership periods, like Saturday nights, as another example.With just six weeks before the Iowa caucuses, the first voting in the presidential candidate selection process, analysts largely agree that Sanders, who trails Clinton by nearly 20 percentage points in voter surveys, must find ways to highlight his goals. But he must do so without antagonizing supporters of Clinton, who is deeply popular across wide sectors of her party.Contrasting positionsSaturday's debate, televised nationally by ABC News, is the party's first since the deadly December 2 attacks in San Bernardino, California, and Sanders is eager to explore his differences with the former secretary of state on issues like her support for a no-fly zone in Syria and her 2011 advocacy for regime change in Libya, his campaign said.&She comes off as more hawkish on some of her foreign policy ideas,& said Michael Briggs, a spokesman for Sanders. &He is going to point out those differences very clearly.&Polls show Sanders trailing Clinton in Iowa but slightly ahead of her in New Hampshire, the second state to vote. Sanders most likely needs a win in both states to mount a serious challenge to Clinton, who will be heavily favored in the next state contests in Nevada and South Carolina, and in a &Super Tuesday& round of voting in 11 states on March 1.&The reality for Sanders is he's only got a couple more shots to change the dynamic of the race,& said Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis. &The only choice he's got is to shake the race up.&　　BRASILIA, June 9 (Xinhua) -- The strike by subway workers in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, has entered the fifth day on Monday, disrupting transportation just three days before the opening of the 2014 Brazil World Cup.On Monday, only 36 out of 65 stations in the city were operating, according to local media.Early in the day, the workers clashed with military riot police outside the subway's Ana Rosa station, leading to the arrest of 13 subway employees.The city's Transportation Secretariat announced it fired 60 subway employees for agitating during the strike.The workers gathered Monday morning at the city's downtown Plaza de Se and urged other social and union groups to join them in a march towards the Secretariat of Public Security to demand authorities release the detained, and to the Transportation Secretariat to reject the dismissals.In an assembly Sunday, the workers decided to continue the strike despite a ruling by Sao Paulo's Regional Labor Tribunal that the strike constituted an &abuse& and was illegal. The court will additionally fine the union 500,000 reals (about 230,000 U.S. dollars) for each day.&We have a World Cup, the world's largest sporting event (and) the state governor is up for reelection at the end of the year, he has to negotiate. We must confront the government,& the president of the subway worker's union, Altino Melo dos Prazeres, said in justifying the timing of the strike.Striking workers have cut their original 16.5 percent wage increase demand to 12.2 percent, but the company that operates the subway has said it can only offer an 8.7 percent wage rise.According to Metropolitan Transportation Secretary Jurandir Fernandes, if the strike continues through Thursday, the government will ask the games' authority, the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), to allow spectators to enter the stadium an hour earlier than scheduled, so they have more time to get to the site.When operating normally, the city's subway can shuttle some 30, 000 people to the site per hour, otherwise stadium goers will have to resort to alternative, and slower means of transport.Brazil is set to play Croatia on June 12 in the inaugural match of football's ultimate championship at Sao Paulo's Corinthians Arena, in the city's Itaquera district.　　ATHENS, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Greece cannot return to the &era of the bailout agreements and submission&, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on early Wednesday, addressing the parliament a few minutes before a scheduled confidence vote to the Left-led coalition government.A few hours before an emergency eurozone meeting on Wednesday on the Greek debt crisis and an EU summit on Thursday, the Greek prime minister who was elected in the Jan. 25 general elections, sent a clear message to Greece's international creditors that his government intends to implement its anti-bailout and anti-austerity policy program.&I am certain our European partners will respond to our proposals and we will achieve a mutually beneficial compromise,& Tsipras said, referring to the bridge agreement Athens seek to replace the bailout which expires in late February until a final renegotiation of the Greek debt load.&I would like to assure you there is no turning back .. .We have Greek people by our side. We cannot be blackmailed, we are not terrorized,& he stressed.　　BRUSSELS, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The European Commission, the European Central bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday made a statement on Cyprus, saying that looking ahead, increasing the pace of reform will be essential to the mediterranean island country.According to the statement, teams from the IMF and the European Commission, in liaison with the ECB, visited Nicosia during July 14-24 to review Cyprus's economic reform program.The statement said that the teams have reached staff-level agreement on policies that could serve as a basis for completion of the review, reflecting the progress and policies under the program.&The financial situation of the banks is gradually improving, and there is tentative evidence that the slow pace of debt restructuring is picking up. The fiscal targets in the first half of 2015 were met with substantial margins. In addition, the authorities are making progress on their structural reform agenda,& said the statement.Notably, addressing the excessive level of non-performing loans in the banking system remains the number one priority. It is a necessary condition for a sustainable stabilization of the banking system and will require further steps as a matter of priority. To this end, legislation to expedite the transfer of title deeds and to facilitate the sale of loans should be adopted as soon as possible, said the statement.It said that the authorities should also make all necessary efforts to effectively implement the new insolvency and foreclosure legal frameworks. Continued sound public finances are needed to ensure that public debt returns to an acceptable level while steering public spending toward growth-enhancing activities.&Finally, firmly moving ahead with structural reforms - including the privatization process and the public administration reforms - is critical to cement the improvements in public finances and restore sustained economic growth,& it said.Conclusion of the reviews is subject to the approval processes of both the European Union and the IMF, which is expected to be initiated in September or October, it said.Cyprus's program, which is supported by financial assistance from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the IMF, aims to promote economic recovery and job creation by restoring financial sector stability, strengthening the public finances, and implementing reforms to increase long-run growth.　　MOSCOW, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday ordered Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to create a state commission in response to the crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt, according to the Kremlin.Putin also ordered the Emergency Situations Ministry to send an aircraft to the crash site after coordinating with the Egyptian side.Meanwhile, Medvedev asked Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov to fly to Cairo, Egypt's capital, to organize all necessary work with regard to the plane crash.Expressing &the deepest condolences to the victims' relatives,& Putin asked relevant ministries and government departments to provide necessary and urgent assistance to the relatives of the victims.The Emergency Situations Ministry earlier held an urgent meeting of a government working group over the crash incident, said the ministry's press service.&Due to the situation with the Russian airliner, the government commission's group on emergency management is urgently gathered for a meeting in the Emergency Situations Ministry,& the press service said.According to the ministry, hotlines were opened for the public to provide related information, while psychologists were sent to St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport, ready to assist the families of the passengers aboard the crashed Airbus A-321.It added that three ministry aircraft are on high alert to set off for Egypt to assist and rescue victims.&Two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft and one Beriev Be-200 are ready for a response,& RIA Novosti news agency quoted a source from the ministry as saying.A Russian airliner carrying 224 people crashed on Saturday in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian prime minister's office said.The flight 7K9268, which took off at 05:51 a.m. local time (0351 GMT) from Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh resort city in South Sinai, vanished from the radars 23 minutes after takeoff.Scheduled to reach the Russian city of St. Petersburg at noon on Saturday, the airliner belongs to Russia's Metrojet airline, which is based in Kogalym, a town in Russia's western Siberia, and started operations in May 1993.According to RIA Novosti, captain of the airliner informed the air traffic controller of technical faults after takeoff, asking for route change and emergent landing in Cairo.The news agency also said that the crew of the crashed airliner had reported several times last week about the plane engine's technical problems.&This plane has contacted the technical service regarding the problems with starting an engine several times during the past week,& a source at the Sharm El-Sheikh airport told RIA Novosti.Meanwhile, Ayman Al-Mokadem, who is heading an Egyptian committee to monitor the crash incident, was quoted by Egypt's state-run Ahram online news website as saying that the crash was due to a &technical failure& and was not shot down.An aviation team is on its way to extract the black boxes to determine the exact cause of the crash and at least 45 ambulances have been sent to the site, according to a statement of the Egyptian prime minister's office.　　WASHINGTON&The leaders of more than 50 nations who met in Washington about nuclear security and terrorism agreed on the actions they will take together to reduce the risks facing the world, but President Barack Obama says the hard work starts now, building on the summit's accomplishments.The global effort to keep nuclear materials secure has made important progress, Obama told Americans Saturday. &As terrorists and criminal gangs look around for the deadly ingredients for a nuclear device, vast regions of the world are now off limits.&Summarizing the summit, Obama said &no terrorist group has yet succeeded in obtaining a nuclear device or producing a dirty bomb using radioactive materials.& However, he added that al-Qaida, Islamic State and other terror groups certainly have tried to do so.U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who was at the summit, &wholeheartedly& endorsed the communique and action plan agreed by the participants. He called on the entire world to sustain and build on the momentum the summit achieved, by &developing concrete recommendations on the nexus between nuclear terrorism and cyber security.&Obama is following up the meetings on nuclear security with White House talks on Monday with NATO's secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg. They will discuss the fight against Islamic State extremists and other terrorists, as well as the refugee crisis in Europe and plans for a NATO summit conference in Poland three months from now.Brussels attacks a shock to allThe devastating attacks in Brussels on March 22 were not specifically aimed at NATO's headquarters there, but Islamic State's suicide-bomb assault on the city's airport and subway was a shock to the alliance, to the European Union and other international institutions based in the Belgian capital.Despite the bloodshed in Western Europe, Islamic State &continues to lose ground& in Syria and Iraq, Obama said in his weekly address to the nation, broadcast Saturday from the hall where the summit took place.&Our coalition continues to take out [IS] leaders, including those planning terrorist attacks against our countries,& the president said. &They're losing their oil infrastructure and revenues [and] their morale is suffering.&Obama said he has invited all nations represented at the nuclear security summit to join the U.S. &in a broader discussion among our intelligence and security services, on how we can improve information sharing to prevent terrorist attacks.&As Obama and Stoltenberg look at the effort to degrade and destroy the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, U.S. officials said they also will review NATO's efforts to control and alleviate the refugee crisis confronting Western Europe.Terrorists disguised as refugeesIslamic State's savage tactics in the Syrian civil war - beheadings, torture and human trafficking in areas they control - have caused much of the refugee exodus in recent months. At the same time, the terror network also has infiltrated the massive tide of refugees, sending IS assassins into the West disguised as victims of war.During the two-day summit, leaders concentrated on both the need to reduce world stockpiles of nuclear materials as well as the particular risk that terror groups could acquire radioactive substances.&Working with other nations, we have removed or secured enough nuclear material for more than 150 nuclear materials,& Obama said, adding that &this is material that will now never fall into the hands of terrorists.&More than a dozen nations have disposed of their entire supplies of highly enriched uranium and plutonium & the radioactive elements necessary to build nuclear bombs, the president said, declaring this is &significant and meaningful& progress. Still, Obama noted, some countries' nuclear arsenals are expanding, and stocks of plutonium are growing.　　NAIROBI, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan soldiers said late Monday they have killed three terrorists and injured a few others as they took control of the entire shopping mall in the capital Nairobi.The Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) said 10 more bodies have been retrieved from the building in the past 24 hours as the standoff with the Al-Qaida linked Somali gunmen claimed 62 lives.&Chances of any terrorists sneaking and escaping are very slim. KDF troops have sealed all possible escape routes,& the military said in a statement.The military has also appealed to Kenyans to remain calm and report any suspicious looking individuals or activities to the nearest security agencies of the government as they continue with the operation at the besieged Westgate mall.Saturday's attack came 16 years after the 1998 twin blasts at the U. S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.The Somali militants of Al-Shabaab have claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on the Westgate shopping mall, saying the attack was part of retaliation for the cross-border incursion by Kenyan soldiers in October 2011.Westgate is a popular shopping center frequented mostly by rich Kenyans and foreigners.It is a multi-storey building with a basement and rooftop parking that also houses the mainstream department stores, banks, phone centers and electronic shops, boutiques, coffee shops, movie theatre and party/amusement areas.The emergency rescue phase has been running over 36 hours, with 62 confirmed fatalities, 49 missing persons and 175 injured victims, who were sent to hospitals for specialized care and psychosocial support.The KDF said they have occupied every level of the four-story Westgate Mall, declaring the operation to flush out the gunmen and rescue those held captive may end soon.The statement comes as thick smoke continues to billow out of the building four hours after a fire broke out amid sporadic bursts of gunfire and explosions.The KDF said fire which has engulfed the building and its environs was started in the building by the terrorists to distract the ongoing operation, but noted that it was being managed by fire fighters from different agencies.&KDF has dominated all floors of Westgate Mall building. Troops are now concentrating on clearing the building. Regrettably, 11 KDF soldiers have been injured in this operation and are receiving medical attention at the Defense Forces Memorial Hospital,& the statement said.According to the KDF, over 200 civilians have been rescued with 65 receiving treatment in various hospitals.&Unfortunately 62 have been confirmed dead. KDF expresses sympathy to the injured and condoles to the families that have lost their loved ones in this attack,& the KDF said.Cabinet Secretary in charge of Internal Security Joseph Ole Lenku had earlier said on Monday that security has also been beefed up along the border areas with Ethiopia and Somalia.He said the security apparatus in the border regions have been ordered to scale up their security check and ensure that no one gets in or out of the country following the attack.All major hotels, restaurants, bars and public service vehicle operators across the East African country have been directed to enhance their security arrangements including screening visitors.　　WASHINGTON, July 31 (Xinhua) -- U.S. space agency NASA on Tuesday confirmed its most advanced planetary rover, Curiosity will land on the Martian surface at 1:31 a.m. EDT (0531 GMT) on Aug. 6 and the landing process will be broadcast live from Times Square, New York City.Programming will originate from Mission Control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's in California, but there will be lag as it takes 14 minutes for radio signals on Mars to travel to Earth, warned NASA.The six-wheeled rover, weighing about one tonne, dwarfs all previous robots sent to the surface of the Mars. It is about twice as long and more than five times as heavy as any previous Mars rover. It has been equipped with 10 science instruments, including two for ingesting and analyzing samples of powdered rock delivered by the rover's robotic arm.The rover is on a precise course for a landing beside a Martian mountain to begin two years of unprecedented scientific detective work, according to NASA.During a prime mission lasting one Martian year -- nearly two Earth years -- researchers will use the rover's tools to study whether the landing region has had environmental conditions favorable for supporting microbial life and favorable for preserving clues about whether life existed.　　UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Monday called on world leaders to work together to end AIDS by 2030, saying that the fast track approach launched last week by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS will enable the world to reach the bold goal.The fast track strategy outlines a set of targets that would need to be reached by 2020, including 90 percent of people living with HIV knowing their HIV 90 percent of people who know their HIV-positive and 90 percent of people on treatment with suppressed viral loads.In a message on World AIDS Day, marked annually on Dec. 1, the UN chief listed progress made over the past years: almost 14 million people worldwide are now accessing HIV new HIV infections have been reduced by 38 percent since 2001; and an estimated 1.16 million infections among newborn babies have been prevented.However, confronting the challenges ahead, he said the gains remain fragile.UN statistics show that currently, there are 35 million people living with HIV, and some 19 million of them do not know they have the virus. Two out of three children who need treatment do not get it. And the AIDS epidemic is increasing in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East, fueled by stigma, discrimination and punitive laws.&We know that medical systems alone are not enough to provide robust healthcare,& he said. &Social justice, the democratization of science, shared responsibility for financing, human rights and gender equity, and a people-centered approach to health are all lessons we have learned in the AIDS response that are being applied across the board, including in our discussions on the post- 2015 development agenda.&World AIDS Day is held on Dec. 1 each year to raise awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection, and mourn those who have died of the disease. This year, the theme is closing the gap, which means empowering and enabling all people, everywhere, to access the medical services they need.　　ISLAMABAD, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- The education department of southeast Pakistan's Sindh province has announced to close all private and government schools in the province for a week, while universities are to be closed on Oct. 21 only, according to local TV channel reports. Sindh education department took this decision due to security concerns in backdrop of ongoing operation Rah-e-Nijat in South Waziristan tribal area, the private channel GEO News reported. The announcement was made by chief secretary of Sindh after twin blasts at International Islamic University Islamabad in the country 's capital Tuesday, which killed at least six people and injured 21 others. Pakistani university students gather and demonstrate after the suicide blast at Islamic International University in Islamabad on Oct. 20, 2009The private schools and academic institutions in Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, were closed Monday for three days because of terror threats in the wake of the military operations in South Waziristan. A Pakistani policeman stands guard at the site of the bomb blast at Islamabad's Islamic International University on Oct. 20, 2009Almost all private school and educational institutions in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad also remained closed on Monday amid of reports of terror threats. Meanwhile, security are being kept high alert at all international airports across the country. Pakistani Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Tuesday that Pakistan is in state of war and the extremists want to destabilize the country with their attacks. Pakistani security forces launched military operation in South Waziristan tribal agency bordering Afghanistan in early Oct. 17 morning. The army said that about 30,000 soldiers are in place to take on an estimated 10,000 hard-core Taliban militants in the lawless area.　　MADRID, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Once established that the primary cause of the Santiago de Compostela train disaster which has claimed 80 lives and left around 100 injured in north-west Spain was an excess of velocity, focus is turning as how such a train could go into a corner with a speed limit of 80 km/h at a speed of around 190 km/h.A video of the accident shown on Spanish TV and posted on virtually every news website in the country shows in graphic detail how the carriages are hurled off the tracks as a result of the excessive speed, with the second wagon appearing to jump the tracks while those behind it are twisted into tortured shapes by the stress placed upon them.The driver of the engine is the first suspect: he reportedly admitted almost directly after the accident of traveling at 190km/h. A veteran of over 30 years' service, his Facebook page has shown that he had previously made jokes about breaking the speed limit, and although that cannot be taken as proof that he habitually acted in such a way, it is worrying.The driver gave negative in a test for alcohol and is currently under police supervision in his hospital bed after being imputed to give evidence to the judge behind one of the two investigations into the tragedy. The judge is in possession of the black box which contains recordings of all of the cabin information and will be able to interrogate him on the basis of the contents of that fateful device.But even if the driver was speeding, the question as to why no automatic system kicked in to automatically slow the train down.The engine in question, an Alvia s-730, was a new model with a top speed of 250 km/h and was operating on track which had recently been laid in order to accommodate the 300km/h AVE high speed train.However, the area where the accident happened is transition zone between the high-speed line and a conventional line. The high-speed line is protected with the ERMTS system, which is a European safety system designed for trains able to travel at speeds of 300km/h, to the ASFA -200 system, more generally used on lines with a top speed of 200 km/h.Both systems are assured to be equally safe and are intended to transmit an action protocol to the cabin in function of the data collected by sensors and antenna installed along the track. Should the driver ignore the signals they are programmed to automatically brake the train and slow it down, something that failed to happen in Wednesday's disaster.Investigators now have the task of determining why on a piece of track which has being described as being in &perfect conditions,& something apparently went badly wrong, for while it may well be that the driver was pushing the train beyond the limit in order to make up a slight delay on arrival time the fact is that the automatic system should still have prevented the tragedy.The riddle is waiting to be tackled.　　LONDON, May 15 (Xinhua) -- A suspicious item discovered at Old Trafford stadium on Sunday was a training device, police have confirmed.The Premier League match between Manchester United and Bournemouth was abandoned after a &incredibly lifelike& device was found shortly before kick-off.Assistant chief constable John O'Hare from Greater Manchester Police said: &Following today's controlled explosion, we have since found out that the item was a training device which had accidentally been left by a private company following a training exercise involving explosive search dogs.&&While this item did not turn out to be a viable explosive, on appearance this device was as real as could be,& he said.It was the Sir Alex Ferguson North Stand and the Stretford End that were evacuated at about 2:30 p.m. - equating to more than half the 75,600-seater stadium. And a bomb disposal team carried out the explosion at about 16:30 local time.The match has been rearranged for Tuesday.　　NEW DELHI, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Foreign Minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Ri Su Yong on Monday started a three-day visit to India, the first of its kind, said officials.Yong held talks with his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj and met with Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari.&EAM (external affairs minister Swaraj) conveyed to her Korean counterpart the significance of peace and stability in the Korean peninsula for India's Act East policy,& External Affairs Ministry said in a statement.Officials said that Yong also updated the Indian side on DPRK's nuclear program.India provided food assistance worth one million U.S. dollars through the World Food Program to DPRK in 2011.Yong expressed his country's appreciation for the humanitarian assistance, the local daily The Hindu quoted unnamed officials as saying.　　One week after U.S. President Barack Obama urged Congress to act swiftly to spur job creation and economic growth, bipartisan backing for his proposals has yet to materialize. The president’s package of temporary tax cuts and short-term additional federal spending faces daunting legislative hurdles.In a nationally-televised address to Congress last Thursday, a feisty-sounding President Obama challenged lawmakers to take a break from partisan gridlock and unite to boost a sagging U.S. economy.“There are steps we can take right now to improve people’s lives. I am sending this Congress a plan that you should pass right away,” he said.The 7-billion package would cut taxes paid by wage-earners, as well as businesses that hire new workers, extend government-provided jobless benefits, and boost federal spending on domestic infrastructure. Longer term, the administration wants to end corporate tax breaks and raise taxes on the wealthy.In the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Majority Leader Eric Cantor said he is willing to trim taxes, but opposes additional spending by a federal government already drowning in debt.Cantor pointed out that an 8-billion stimulus plan enacted at the start of the Obama administration failed to bring U.S. unemployment below the current nine-percent range.“The stimulus program was a failure. Why would we want to go do something like that again?” he asked.That message is echoed by Republicans in the Senate, where the party is in the minority but can still block legislation. The ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, Jeff Sessions, said the Obama jobs plan would eradicate initial savings from last month’s contentious federal budget agreement.“Should not we think very, very carefully about a new stimulus plan that would spend 0 billion, obliterating that [budget] savings?” said Sessions.President Obama’s allies in Congress argue America’s fiscal woes will only worsen if the economy languishes and millions remain unemployed. Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts said, “We need [economic] growth, not just revenue and not just [spending] cuts. Any economist will tell us: creating jobs today helps reduce the deficit tomorrow.”Democrats also argue that corporations and the wealthy who benefited from previous tax breaks should be willing to pay more now in order to spare the poor and middle class from further economic pain.Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois said, “Those who are making the highest incomes in America should join with every other family in America and help us get beyond this recession.”This week, Congress heard conflicting testimony from two well-known economists on the value of government spending during economic downturns. The head of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Elmendorf, appeared to back the Obama administration’s call for short-term stimulus combined with long-term fiscal austerity.“To provide the greatest boost to economic activity now, and the medium and long term, the combination of fiscal policies likely to be most effective would be [to] cut taxes or increase spending in the near term. But over the longer term, move in the opposite direction and cut spending or raise taxes,” he said.Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan had a very different message when discussing America’s debt burden.“Our spending is already committed to more than we have the capacity of achieving. And unless and until we understand that our problem is spending, and not taxes, I think we will lead ourselves astray,” said Greenspan.House Speaker John Boehner urged reducing government regulation, while also cutting federal taxes and spending.House Majority Leader Cantor said partisan disagreements on how best to invigorate the economy will set the stage for next year’s general election. APHouse Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia speaks with reporters about jobs, as Congress waits for President Barack Obama to submit the jobs plan, in his Capitol Hill office in Washington, D.C., September 12, 2011. (AP) “Republicans and Democrats are not going to agree on everything. And maybe the issue of taxation and some other issues will have to be left for the election,” said Cantor.The administration is urging Congress to hold up-or-down votes on the president’s entire jobs plan. But White House spokesman Jay Carney said the president will sign any portion that arrives on his desk.　　ISTANBUL, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said here on Saturday that the European countries must diversify their energy resources in order to obtain energy security especially in face of Russian energy threat.&Russia has been using energy as a weapon threatening the nations' security. Of course Russia will continue to be an important gas supplier in the near future but European countries must secure their energy demands,& Biden said.Biden made this statement at the Atlantic Council of Energy and Economy summit in Istanbul while addressing to more than 300 international political leaders and energy experts.He highlighted that energy security is the precondition of a country's stability and prosperity, and also praised European countries for possessing a strong diplomacy of energy policies and conducting close cooperation with especially Baltic countries in creating alternative sources of energy.He also said that reaching diversified energy resources needs infrastructure projects. &We should admit that these projects requires long time to be realized and they are expensive. In that case the international cooperation and strong leadership is needed. .. European countries shouldn't take bilateral actions and must cooperate to secure their energy demands.&Meanwhile, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu also stressed the importance of energy security, saying that Turkey would take all the necessary preconditions during Ankara's presidency of the G20 in order to secure the fair distribution of energy in the world.&Turkey is aware that energy security is the foundation of democratic societies,& he said, adding that Turkey is seeking ways to create an energy route in the country, which aims to build itself into an international energy hub.Biden arrived in Istanbul after his trips to Morocco and Ukraine on Friday. He is to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a working lunch at the Beylerbeyi Palace in Istanbul on Saturday.　　CANBERRA, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- An increasing number of Australians are turning to black markets to buy human organs, a News Limited investigation has found.The report, published by News Limited on Sunday, revealed that more than 100 Australians have traveled overseas to purchase organs since 2001 as demand for transplants continued to outstrip supply.Doctors who facilitate the illegal transplants are earning as much as 190,000 U.S. dollars per transaction.In one case uncovered by the investigation a wealthy buyer paid 60, 000 U.S. dollars for a new liver.An Australian mother of two, known only as Sarah, said she paid 91, 000 U.S. dollars for an organ transplant in China in 2011.&I waited eight years and didn't know how long I had to keep waiting... If you can pay someone who is willing to donate kidney that money ca}