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BEIJING, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — “Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher,” Confucius famously said. As reports of a possible meeting between Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama are circulating, it is time to remind the U.S. president of his words in Beijing about three months ago, […]
Read MoreUNITED NATIONS, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Liu Jieyi who just assumed the rotating presidency of the Security Council for the month of February, announced on Tuesday a special commemorative debate in the 15-nation council for Feb. 23 to be chaired by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. “The council […]
Read MoreJAKARTA, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo met with Meng Jianzhu, a senior Chinese security official here on Tuesday. Meng, head of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and a special envoy of President Xi Jinping, conveyed an oral message from Xi to […]
Read MoreJAKARTA, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) — Rescuers have found a total of 90 bodies of victims of crashed AirAsia plane from Indonesia’s waters, rescuer said on Tuesday. “So far, as many as 90 corpses have been discovered,” Nurul Karlina, official in charge at National Search and Rescue Office told Xinhua via phone. Search and rescue operation […]
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BEIJING, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) — “Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher,” Confucius famously said. As reports of a possible meeting between Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama are circulating, it is time to remind the U.S. president of his words in Beijing about three months ago. […]
Read MoreNew York, Feb. 3 (NsNewsWire) — The Obama administration is proposing a $4 billion fund to reward states that exceed cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, and wants Congress to back steeper royalty rates for oil, gas and coal extraction from public land. In a mix of measures likely to be greeted skeptically by the Republican majority […]
Read MoreISLAMABAD, Feb.3 (Xinhua) — Pakistan on Monday conducted a successful flight test of an indigenously developed cruise missile that enables the country to achieve strategic standoff capability on land and at sea, the military said. The Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) “Ra’ad” has a range of 350 km, an army statement said. “Cruise technology is […]
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MOSCOW, Feb.3 (Xinhua/NsNewsWire) — Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed concern with the situation in eastern Ukraine and urged the conflicting parties to end military hostilities, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday. “The president is very concerned with how the situation is unfolding in Donbas amid incessant fighting and is calling on all the sides in […]
Read MoreCAIRO, Feb. 2 (NsNewsWire) — Egypt decided to deport jailed reporter Peter Greste back to his native Australia, Egypt’s state news agency MENA reported on Sunday. The Foreign Ministry coordinated with the Australian Embassy in Cairo, and Greste was supposed to depart for Sydney this afternoon, the source added, reports Xinhua. Greste, together with Egyptian […]
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