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President Xi visits TCM industrial park in S. China's Guangdong
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday visited a hi-tech heartland in south China's Guangdong Province, on his first inspection trip to Guangdong in nearly six years.
He visited Shenzhen in December 2012, after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Xi's visit included the Guangdong-Macao Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Industrial Park in Zhuhai's Hengqin New Area.
Xi said he visited Guangdong because it is where China's reform and opening up began, and he is there to review the historical process and to continue pushing the reform and opening up forward.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening up. (Xinhua)
17th National Congress of ACFTU opens
The 17th National Congress of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) opened in Beijing Monday.
President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the opening session.
The meeting was also attended by other leaders of the CPC and the state including Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Zhao Leji and Han Zheng, all members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
Wang Huning, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, delivered a speech on behalf of the CPC Central Committee.
He said Xi's important discourses on the working class and the work of trade unions have pointed out the directions of innovations and development for labor movement and trade unions' work in the new era.
He urged the working class to implement the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress, hold fast to their ideals and faith, give full play to their enthusiasm, advance reforms and innovations, and improve their working skills. (Xinhua)
Trump says he's reducing Central American aid over migrants
US President Donald Trump said Monday the US would begin “cutting off, or substantially reducing” aid to three Central American nations over a migrant caravan heading to the US southern border.
Trump tweeted: “Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming illegally to the US.”
The three countries combined received over $500 million in US aid last year.
It was not immediately clear how much Trump would cut. (AP)
Putin approves economic counter-sanctions against Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree slapping Ukrainian firms and individuals with economic counter-sanctions, according to a statement from the Kremlin on Monday.
The move was in response to the "unfriendly actions of Ukraine" involving sanctions against Russian nationals and legal entities, and a move to "protect national interests," according to the statement.
Putin has instructed government officials to create a sanction target list. (CGTN)
China urges relevant countries to resolve INF Treaty disputes through dialogue
China calls on all relevant countries to resolve disputes over the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty through dialogue and consultation, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Monday.
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that his country will pull out of the treaty, which was signed in 1987 between the Soviet Union and the US to eliminate intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles.
The INF Treaty is an important arms control and disarmament Cold War treaty between the US and the Soviet Union, spokesperson Hua Chunying said at a press briefing.
China hopes that relevant countries can cherish hard-won achievements over the years, carefully and properly handle the issue through dialogue and consultation, and think twice about withdrawing, Hua said. (Xinhua)
Zika outbreak in Northern India state exceeds 100
The number of Zika virus cases has surpassed 100 in Rajasthan, a state in Northern India, where large numbers of tourists visit annually.
Indian media reported eight cases from the state capital of Jaipur on Saturday.
The new cases come amid a state health department investigation that tracked the Zika virus in women during who were pregnant during their first trimester.
Zika symptoms include fever, rashes and joint pain, and in some cases the disease has been linked to birth deformities. (AP)
Norwegian hero Roenneberg who blew up Nazi plant dies at 99
Norway on Monday mourned World War II saboteur Joachim Roenneberg, who headed a five-man team that blew up a heavy water plant, depriving Nazi Germany of a key ingredient to make nuclear weapons.
Roenneberg, then 23, was tapped by the Special Operations Executive, or SOE — Britain’s war-time intelligence gathering and sabotage unit — to destroy key parts of the heavily guarded plant in Telemark, in Southern Norway, in a raid in February 1943.
The town ordered flags to fly at half-mast Monday and flowers were laid at the foot of a Roenneberg sculpture. (AP)
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When did the Panama Canal open?
(Answer: The Panama Canal was opened to traffic on August 15, 1914.)
Today’s quote is from Greek historian Thucydides.
“History is philosophy teaching by example.”
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