China's State Council says China will trim its "carbon intensity" as compared to 2005 levels.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

The World Gold Council says, in the first half of the year, India's gold imports slumped by 26 percent, dropping to their lowest level in six years.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

Reaction was more subdued at the State Department, where Acting Spokesman Robert Wood said Monday's Security Council statement condemning the missile launch and threatening tougher sanctions spoke for itself, and that retaliation would only mean further isolation for Pyongyang.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

A senior official here said the administration had anticipated a sharp response by Pyongyang to Monday's Security Council statement and that the United States did not intend to "get bogged down" by responding to every statement carried by the official North Korean media.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

Iran's Guardian Council also approved the candidacy of President Ahmadinejad and Mohsen Rezai, former head of the Revolutionary Guards.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Discussions about Iran's nuclear activities have intensified among the five permanent United Nations Security Council members and Germany.

VOA: special.2010.04.17

Among those expected from President Obama's new administration is Lawrence Summers, the director of the National Economic Council.

VOA: special.2009.01.23

The council's Web site points out that the Educational Testing Service has recently been marketing its GRE test to graduate schools of business.

VOA: special.2009.01.08

Iran's Guardian Council which supervises elections has offered to recount some votes and investigate complaints of wrongdoing.

VOA: special.2009.06.20

He is Egypt's vice minister of culture and secretary general of the Supreme Council of the Antiquities.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

The report was from the Center for Women's Business Research and the National Women's Business Council.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

In January, Britain's General Medical Council found that the Wakefield report was dishonest and misleading.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

The Getty Conservation Institute is cooperating with Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities on the project.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

A group of black activist women in Montgomery was known as the Women's Political Council.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Former President George Bush formed the President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy last year.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

John Logsdon is a member of NASA's advisory council.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Mr.Obama re-launched the President's Export Council.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

Such items are prohibited under the latest United Nations Security Council resolution passed after North Korea's nuclear test last month.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

On the Security Council's regular program of work this month will be a debate on the U.N.'s peacekeeping mission in Haiti.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

The U.S.-sponsored Security Council resolution, expected to win easy approval next week, will create a special representative to the U.N.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Lee is the director general of the Presidential Council on Nation Branding, tasked with enhancing South Korea's prestige abroad.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

Mr.Singh's comments come in the wake of a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on all countries to sign the treaty.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29