ISRAEL – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will not accept Hamas’s demands for Israel to end the Gaza war. It comes as negotiators were resuming talks in Egypt to broker a pause in Israel’s Gaza offensive in return for the release of hostages taken by Hamas.
Speaking yesterday, Mr Netanyahu said: “We are not ready to accept a situation in which the Hamas battalions come out of their bunkers, take control of Gaza again, rebuild their military infrastructure, and return to threatening the citizens of Israel in the surrounding communities, in the cities of the south, in all parts of the country.” Separately, an anonymous Israeli government official told local media on Saturday that Israel would “under no circumstances agree to end the war as part of an agreement to free our abductees. They added: “The IDF will enter Rafah and destroy the remaining Hamas battalions there – whether there is a temporary pause to free our captives or not.
Mr Netanyahu has faced pressure from within his far-right coalition to press ahead with the long-promised offensive in Gaza’s southern-most city, where an estimated 1.4 million people have taken shelter after fleeing fighting in northern and central parts of the strip.
The US – Israel’s biggest diplomatic and military ally – is reluctant to back a new offensive that could cause significant civilian casualties, and has insisted on seeing a plan to protect displaced Palestinians first. The Israeli government also faces mounting pressure at home. Thousands of Israelis rallied Saturday night calling for a deal to bring hostages home.
Protesters in Tel Aviv chanted “war is not holy, life is”, with some accusing Mr Netanyahu of aiming to prolong the conflict in Gaza. Saturday’s demonstrations in Israel were the latest display of the increased domestic pressure Mr Netanyahu is facing to secure the return of the hostages.
Of the 252 who were kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October, 128 are still unaccounted for and among them, at least 34 are presumed dead.Natalie Eldor, a protester in Tel Aviv, told Reuters news agency she was there to “support a deal now, yesterday”.

“We need to bring all the hostages back, the live ones, the dead ones. We got to bring them back. We got to switch this government,” she added. Some who gathered at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv accused the prime minister of undermining the proposed truce, while others called for an end to the war.
Addressing the prospects of a truce on Saturday, minister Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s war cabinet, said An official response to the outline has not yet been received. When accepted – the war management cabinet will meet and discuss it.Until then, I suggest to the ‘political sources’ and all decision-makers to wait for official updates, to act calmly and not to get into hysteria for political reasons. (BBC News)…[+]

BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on the young people in the new era to strive to write their youthful chapter of shouldering responsibility for Chinese modernization.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in his messages for Chinese youth ahead of China’s Youth Day, which is today.
Xi, on behalf of the CPC Central Committee, extended festive greetings to young people nationwide in his messages.
Xi said that on the new journey in the new era, China’s youth of all ethnic groups act as “spearheads and vital forces” in various fields such as scientific and technological innovation, rural revitalization, green development, social services, and defense of the country, responding to the call of the Party and the people. The CPC Central Committee has full trust in and high expectations for the youth, said Xi.
Xi stressed that this year marks the 75th founding anniversary of the People’s Republic of China and the 105th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement. He asked young people to carry on the spirit of the movement, resolutely follow the Party, and make their contributions to building China into a strong country and promoting the great cause of national rejuvenation.
Xi also pointed out that Party organizations at various levels should step up their leadership concerning work related to young people, show care for the growth of the youth and support them in making achievements.
The Communist Youth League of China should shoulder the missions and tasks entrusted by the Party on the new journey in the new era and rally young people to strive for the cause of the Party and the people, he added. (Xinhua)…[+]

FRANCE – French police officers entered the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) in Paris and removed pro-Palestinian student activists who had occupied its buildings to protest Israel’s war on Gaza.
Reporting from the French capital yesterday, Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler said that police “moved in” into one of the buildings and removed more than 50 students who were staging a sit-in and a hunger strike.
“They [students] have filtered out slowly. They were allowed to leave the scene. It seems that it had gone off peacefully,” she said.
James, a student at the university, told Al Jazeera that earlier yesterday, the school administrator held another round of talks with protesters, but negotiations to move the protest elsewhere on campus broke down.
“There were no assurances given that there wouldn’t be a police intervention after people leave the rooms,” he said.
Another student named Lucas, who is studying for a master’s degree, told the AFP news agency that he witnessed how “some students were dragged and others gripped by the head or shoulders”.
Images captured by Al Jazeera outside the campus, also showed young protesters shouting pro-Palestinian chants as they faced off with police.
Students from the university’s Palestine Committee had earlier told reporters they faced a “disproportionate” response from police, who had blocked access to the site before moving in.
They also complained of a lack of “medical assistance” for seven students who had started a hunger strike “in solidarity with Palestinian victims”.
Speaking before the police intervention, a Sciences Po spokesperson, said the university was seeking a “negotiated solution to end the standoff” with its students, and that some of its satellite campuses in Reims, Le Havre and Poitiers were also affected by protests.
The university was closed for the day yesterday, with a heavy police presence around its main building.
Sciences Po has become the epicentre of student antiwar protests in France over the institution’s academic ties with Israel. Last week, students blocked access to the university.
But Sciences Po’s director Jean Basseres rejected the demands by protesters to review its relations with Israeli universities yesterday, prompting the students to continue their sit-in.
Although the protests have spread across the country, they have remained much smaller in scale than those seen in the United States.
Outside the Sorbonne University, a few hundred metres from Sciences Po in central Paris, members of the Union of Jewish Students in France (UEJF) were setting up a “dialogue table” yesterday.
“We want to prove that it’s not true that you can’t talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” UEJF President Samuel Lejoyeux told broadcaster Radio J.
“To do that, we have to sideline those who single out Jewish students as complicit in genocide,” he added.
In the northeastern city of Lille, the ESJ journalism school was blocked off, according to the AFP news agency.
Students at the city’s nearby branch of Sciences Po had their identities checked before they were allowed in via a back entrance to sit exams.
About 100 students had occupied a lecture hall at Science Po’s Lyon branch late last Thursday, while a blockade at a university site in nearby Saint-Etienne was cleared on Thursday morning by police.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s office said such protests would be dealt with using “total rigour”, adding that 23 university sites had been “evacuated” last Thursday.
(Al Jazeera)…[+]

GAZA CITY – A prominent Palestinian doctor from Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital has died in an Israeli jail after more than four months of detention, according to the enclave’s health ministry and groups advocating for Palestinian prisoners.
Adnan al-Barash, the head of orthopaedics at Gaza’s largest medical facility, was detained by Israeli forces while temporarily treating patients at al-Awda Hospital in the north of the territory, the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Committee and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a joint statement.
The two groups blamed Israel for “killing” another medical worker and described it as an “assassination”.
With his death, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said the total number of medical personnel who have been killed since Israel’s war on Gaza broke out in October has reached 496.
“The killing of Dr al-Barash would not be the last crime in light of the complete secrecy of the condition of prisoners in prisons, especially those arrested from the Gaza Strip,” it said.
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, said she was “extremely alarmed” after learning about al-Barash’s death.
“No Palestinian is safe under Israel’s occupation today. How many more lives will have to be taken before UN Member States, especially those demonstrating genuine concern for human rights globally, act to Protect the Palestinians?”
Al-Barash died on April 19, the prisoners’ groups said, citing Palestinian authorities. They alleged that his death was “part of a systematic targeting of doctors and the health system in Gaza”, adding that he died “as a result of torture”.
The Israeli prison service issued a statement on April 19 saying that a prisoner detained for national security reasons had died in Ofer prison. It gave no details about the cause of death.
A prison service spokesperson confirmed that the statement referred to al-Barash and said the incident was being investigated, the Reuters news agency reported.
The Israeli army responded to the AFP news agency when asked about the reported death in custody: “We are currently not aware of such [an] incident.”
Al-Barash was “tortured to death by the Israeli army in their secret detention sites. He was a great surgeon, full of life,” Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah, a British Palestinian surgeon, posted on X.
Abu Sittah, who volu Police remove pro-Palestinian students from Paris’s Sciences Po university nteered in Gaza’s medical facilities during the first weeks of Israel’s war and worked at the al-Shifa and al-Alhi Baptist hospitals, wrote that al-Barash was “taken hostage from al-Awda Hospital”, adding that “he was beaten to death” by Israeli prison guards.
Al-Barash, 50, was arrested with a group of other doctors in December at the al-Awda Hospital near the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
The prisoners’ rights groups said his body was still being held by the Israeli authorities.
The fate of the other doctors remains unknown.
While attacks on medical facilities and health workers are banned under international humanitarian law, according to the Geneva Conventions, the Israeli military has repeatedly targeted them.
The health ministry said about 1,500 medical workers have also been wounded during the war, while 309 remain imprisoned in Israeli jails.
It called on the international community and health and human rights organisations to intervene and protect prisoners held by Israel.
Israel routinely accuses Hamas of using hospitals for military purposes and says its operations have been justified by the presence of fighters, but it has not provided any evidence to back its claims. Hamas and medical staff deny such allegations. (Al Jazeera)…[+]

BUENOS AIRES – Argentina on Thursday came one step closer to joining the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
At a ceremony held during the opening session of the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting in Paris, OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann formally delivered the OECD Accession Roadmap to Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino.
In a speech to the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting, Mondino expressed the South American country’s “gratitude and satisfaction” at embarking on the process.
Argentina wants to “focus on a system based on rules, not only for the greater well-being of our citizens, but to consolidate the agenda for freedom that Argentina is carrying out at the moment,” she said.
The South American nation aspires to “carry out rigorous coordination as requested by the OECD in this process and we hope to have a qualitative change in better public policies that our country needs,” she added.
“The Ministerial Council Meeting is the highest level forum organized by the OECD, with the attendance of the ministers of finance, economy, foreign affairs, trade and other government departments of member and associated countries, as well as representatives of other international organizations,” said the ministry. (Xinhua)…[+]

US – Scandal, hush-money payments, secret recordings and Donald Trump’s alleged gag order violations took centre stage during his tenth day in court.
The court heard testimony from Keith Davidson, a lawyer who brokered porn star Stormy Daniels’ hush-money deal.
Questioning of Mr Davidson grew hostile, as the defense tried to paint him as a sleazy Hollywood profiteer.
He pushed back, alleging the defense had wrongly used words like “extortion” to describe valid legal settlements.
“We’re both lawyers. I’m not here to play lawyer games with you,” the ex-president’s lawyer Emil Bove said in a particularly heated moment during cross-examination.
Mr Bove unearthed several celebrity scandals that Mr Davidson allegedly was involved in keeping quiet, apparently in an effort to shake the witness’ credibility.
Mr Trump’s lawyer asked whether Mr Davidson had “extracted sums of money” from actor Charlie Sheen and if he worked with a “sex-tape broker” on the behalf of reality star Tila Tequila. There were also stories about actress Lindsay Lohan’s visit to a rehabilitation facility and professional wrestler Hulk Hogan’s sex tape.
Mr Davidson repeatedly maintained that the settlements he was involved in were fair and legitimate. He also regularly cited attorney-client privilege.
Prosecutors, meanwhile, had called Mr Davidson to connect Mr Trump, his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen, and the $130,000 hush-money payment he paid to Ms Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
The former president pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal the payment. He also has denied any sexual encounter with Ms Daniels.
Mr Davidson detailed how the payout to Ms Daniels was shaped. He was also involved in an earlier deal with the National Enquirer magazine to conceal Playboy model Karen McDougal’s claim that she had a romantic affair with Mr Trump.
The lawyer, who is based in Beverly Hills, California, emphasised that he assumed Mr Trump was behind keeping Ms Daniels quiet in October 2016. Emails and text messages indicated that he and others believed the hush-money agreement with his former client helped Mr Trump win the presidency just a month later.
“What have we done?” Mr Davidson texted National Enquirer editor-in-chief Dylan Howard as the results rolled in on election night.
Asked to explain the message, Mr Davidson told the court: “There was an understanding that our efforts may have in some way… our activities may have in some way assisted the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.”
During a second set of questions, prosecutor Joshua Steinglass played recordings of Mr Davidson and Cohen on the phone, “surreptitiously recorded” by Cohen.
In one recording, Cohen says that Mr Trump told him several times that he “hate[s] the fact that we did it”. Mr Davidson testified that he was referencing Stormy Daniels’ hush-money deal.
“But my comment to him is, ‘but every person that we’ve spoken to told you it was the right move’,” Mr Cohen adds in the recording.
Prosecutors called Douglas Daus, who works in the high-tech analysis unit at the New York County District Attorney’s Office, toward the end of the day.
Mr Daus told the court he analysed two phones owned by Mr Cohen, extracting the data and 39,745 contacts – more than 10 pages included various contact details for Mr Trump alone.
Mr Cohen is expected to testify soon, but it is unclear exactly when.
Justice Juan Merchan’s ruling also is expected after prosecutors and the defense debated last Thursday whether Mr Trump violated his gag order again. He has been fined $9,000 for previous infractions. (BBC)…[+]

KENYA – Staff and visitors have been left stranded and buildings submerged at Kenya’s famous Maasai Mara nature reserve, as the death toll in catastrophic flooding in the country’s southwest rose to at least 188 people.
Local authorities ordered some tourist facilities in the National Reserve to close after River Talek, one of the tributaries of the Mara River, burst its banks and swept through more than a dozen riverside tourist lodges and camps.
Videos on social media showed some buildings and vehicles fully submerged inside the popular park as tourists scrambled to leave affected areas.
Weeks of heavy rain and flash flooding has ravaged parts of Kenya for days, leaving dozens of people missing around the capital, Nairobi, and causing a devastating mudslide in the town of Mai Mahiu.
Two more bodies were retrieved from the site of the mudslide, bringing the total number of deaths there to 50, government spokesman Isaac Mwaura said yesterday, revising down the earlier figure of 71 reported due to an error, Nakuru County governor Susan Kihika told CNN.
In Maasai Mara, camp owners were told to leave the affected properties and “move to higher ground further away from River Talek,” governor of Narok county Patrick Ole Ntutu said.
But local administrators went even further in their warnings, threatening legal consequences for people still left behind, even accusing those who stay of attempting suicide.
“We will forcefully evacuate anybody left in any homes or lodges along the river. We will take action against them because that is considered attempted suicide,” Narok county commissioner Kipkech Lotiatia told reporters.
Authorities said they had deployed two helicopters to rescue stranded tourists and local staff around the national reserve after receiving distress calls. The flooding was caused by swollen rivers after several days of continuous rainfall, the county said on X.
A tour guide told CNN he was awoken by sounds of rushing water after 1 a.m. yesterday. When he left his tent, flood waters rose to his waist and the entire Talek Bush Camp had been surrounded.
“My driver and I were the first to wake up, so we woke up all the 14 international tourists and 25 staff and climbed ladders to some water tanks that are raised,” 27-year-old James Apolloh Omenya told CNN via telephone.
“We were being rained on from around 2 a.m. to 5.30 a.m. but we couldn’t get out and the planes coming to rescue us couldn’t get in one time.”
The Kenya Red Cross said it had rescued more than 90 people and at least 14 camps around River Talek had been closed.
While parts of the Mara have flooded before in Kenya’s so-called long rains season, locals say the scale of this year’s deluge has been unprecedented.
The country has deployed “corps from the Paramilitary Academy” of its National Youth Service to Narok to “join the multi-agency team for search and rescue operations following the heavy downpour,” a statement on X said.
The Horn of Africa, a region of East Africa that includes Kenya, is one of the most climate-vulnerable regions in the world. Heavy rains have also affected Tanzania and Burundi.
“Kenya is facing a worsening flood crisis due to the combined effects of El Niño and the ongoing March-May 2024 long rains,” International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) CEO Jagan Chapagain said in a post on X earlier this week, referring to the climate pattern that originates in the Pacific Ocean along the equator and impacts weather all over the world.
“The unfolding devastation highlights the government’s obligation to prepare for and promptly respond to the foreseeable impacts of climate change and natural disasters,” said Nyagoah Tut Pur, Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement yesterday. “Kenyan authorities should urgently ensure support to affected communities and protect populations facing high risk.” (CNN)…[+]

SOUTH KOREA – South Korea’s parliament has passed a bill for a new, independent investigation into the 2022 Halloween crush in the capital, Seoul, that killed more than 150 people.
The single-chamber, opposition-led National Assembly approved the measure in a bipartisan vote with 256 in, three abstentions, and no opposition yesterday. It will become law once signed by President Yoon Suk-yeol, which is considered a formality.
The legislation will create a fact-finding committee of nine members who will look into the cause of the crush, how the authorities handled it, and who should be blamed, a process that could last up to 15 months.
The crush took place on October 29, 2002, when revellers flooded the narrow alleyways of Seoul’s popular nightlife district of Itaewon to celebrate the first Halloween free of COVID-19 curbs in three years. Nearly 200 people were injured in the ensuing surge, with most of the victims in their 20s and 30s.
Anger that the government ignored safety and regulatory issues mounted in the aftermath of the disaster.
Police faced strong public criticism and scrutiny over their response, having dispatched just 137 officers to the area despite estimating in advance as many as 100,000 people would gather.
In 2023, a special police investigation concluded that police and municipal officials failed to formulate effective crowd control steps.
Investigators also said police had ignored hotline calls by pedestrians who warned of swelling crowds before the surge turned deadly.
Bereaved families and opposition lawmakers have repeatedly called for an independent probe as few have been held accountable for the incident, despite more than 20 police and other officials on trial.
In January, prosecutors charged Kim Kwang-ho, the former head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, for negligence by failing to ensure there were enough officers at the scene. He has denied any wrongdoing.
Two former senior police officers were sentenced in February for destroying evidence linked to the crush.
According to the new bill, once the committee determines who is responsible and who should face charges, it would report them to the government’s investigation agencies. The agencies would then conclude investigations of the suspects within three months.
An earlier bill, which was backed by the opposition-led parliament, was vetoed by Yoon in January because of disputes over the panel’s powers, such as whether the fact-finding committee can request arrest warrants.
However, at a meeting last Monday with opposition leader Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party, Yoon said he would not oppose the bill should the disputes be resolved.
Yoon’s shift comes as he faces growing public calls to cooperate with Lee’s party, which secured a landslide victory in the April 10 elections.
In a meeting with Yoon’s ruling People Power Party last Wednesday, Lee’s party agreed to remove contentious clauses from the draft bill, including granting full investigative power to the panel. (Al Jazeera)…[+]

US – Police in riot gear massed on the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus and ordered a large group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators inside an encampment to leave the area or face arrest after violence instigated by pro-Israel counter-protesters.
The barricaded encampment was full of hundreds of people and tents. Some protesters prayed as the sun set over the campus, while others chanted “we’re not leaving” or passed out goggles and surgical masks. They wore helmets and headscarves and discussed the best ways to handle pepper spray or tear gas as someone sang over a megaphone.
A few made homemade shields out of plywood in case they clashed with police forming skirmish lines elsewhere on the campus. “For rubber bullets, who wants a shield?” a protester called out.
Meanwhile, a large crowd of students, alumni and neighbours gathered on campus steps outside the tents, sitting as they listened and applauded various speakers and joined in pro-Palestinian chants. A small group of students holding signs and wearing T-shirts in support of Israel and Jewish people demonstrated nearby.
The law enforcement presence and continued warnings stood in contrast to the scene that unfolded the night before, when counter-demonstrators attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment, throwing traffic cones, releasing pepper spray and tearing down barriers. Fighting continued for several hours before police stepped in, though no arrests were made. The tepid response from the authorities drew criticism from political leaders as well as Muslim students and advocacy groups.
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said in a statement that “a group of instigators” perpetrated the previous night’s attack, but he did not provide details about the crowd or why the administration and school police did not act sooner. (Al Jazeera)…[+]

US – The body of a fifth construction worker has been recovered after a ship hit Baltimore’s Key Bridge in March, causing it to collapse.
Miguel Angel Luna Gonzalez, 49, was among six victims of the disaster.
Salvage teams found his missing truck as they continue their recovery work at their site.
The six men were all from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras or Mexico, and worked for a Maryland-based contracting company.
In total, eight workers were on the Francis Scott Key Bridge on 26 March when it was struck by the Dali container vessel, plunging them into the waters below.
Two of them were rescued on the day and five bodies have been recovered since then. A search continues for the sixth.
Mr Luna was a husband and father from El Salvador who had lived in Maryland for nearly two decades, according to non-profit organisation Casa.
“Behind each person lost in this tragedy lies a loving family,” said Maryland police, commenting on the discovery of Mr Luna’s body in his vehicle.
The incident is the subject of a criminal investigation by the FBI, which is looking into the circumstances that led to the crash.
A separate probe is under way by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
Meanwhile, the city is suing the operators of the container ship, alleging that the vessel was “clearly unseaworthy”. The operators have already asked a court to limit their liability.
The bridge’s collapse led to the closure of the Port of Baltimore, one of the busiest in the US and a key hub for the transport of vehicles.
Four alternative channels have since been opened as the salvage operation continues.
The state governor met a House of Representatives committee to discuss aid for rebuilding the collapsed bridge.
Apart from two of the ship’s pilots, 21 crew members – almost all of whom are of Indian origin – remain on the ship. There is no timeline yet for when they will disembark or head back to sea. (BBC)…[+]

BOGOTA – Colombia will sever diplomatic relations with Israel, said President Gustavo Petro.
Speaking to a crowd in the capital Bogota, the Colombian president referred to the Israeli government as “genocidal.”
“The era of genocide, of the extermination of an entire people before our eyes, before our humanity, cannot return,” said Petro, adding that if Palestine dies, humanity dies.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz denounced Colombia’s decision. “Relations between Israel and Colombia have always been warm, and no antisemitic and hate-filled president can change that,” he said on X, formerly Twitter.
The Colombian president has expressed his intention to cut off diplomatic ties with Israel on several occasions since the UN Security Council adopted in March a resolution on ceasefire in Gaza.
Colombia recalled its ambassador to Israel in October, a few days after Israel launched military operations in densely-populated areas in Gaza in response to Hamas attack. (Xinhua)…[+]

BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping has given important instructions on the rescue and disaster relief work after a fatal expressway collapse in south China’s Guangdong Province.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, attached great importance to the disaster, instructing that every effort be carried out for on-site rescue, treatment of the injured, and properly handling the aftermath.
At about 2:10 a.m. on May 1, a landslide occurred in the Chayang section of the Meizhou-Dabu Expressway in Meizhou City, Guangdong Province. As of 6:00 a.m. on May 2, the disaster had caused 36 deaths and 30 injuries.
Efforts should be made to repair the damaged roads and restore traffic order as soon as possible, said Xi, adding that all regions and relevant departments must adhere to bottom-line thinking, consolidate work responsibilities, strengthen monitoring and early warning, improve emergency plans, promptly investigate and deal with potential risks in key areas and key sectors, and ensure the safety of people’s lives and property and the overall social stability.
Li Qiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and premier of the State Council, has given instructions to spare no effort in rescuing the injured, carry out follow-up work, do everything possible to search and rescue trapped persons, and strictly guard against secondary risks.
Li emphasized that the ongoing May Day holiday is the peak of tourism prime time, accompanied by widespread rainfall in some areas, necessitating all-out efforts to prevent accidents and disasters.
The Ministry of Emergency Management, the Ministry of Transport and other relevant departments, have dispatched working groups to the scene to guide the rescue efforts. (Xinhua)…[+]