【听 · 焦点】外交部回应：美宗教报告颠倒黑白

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China to promote foreign investment growth

Chinese authorities have outlined a series of measures for ensuring the steady growth of foreign investment.

The State Council says China should make its foreign investment environment "more law-based, internationalized and convenient" to promote growth and raise the quality of foreign investment.

It says it also plans to reduce market access restrictions for foreign capital.

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Foreign capital is also going to be directed toward new-energy vehicle manufacturing, ship design, aircraft maintenance and railway passenger transportation.

China, Nepal agree to boost pragmatic cooperation, friendly ties

Chinese vice-Premier Wang Yang has met with Nepal's President, with the promotion of the Belt and Road Initiative at the top of the agenda.

Bidhya Devi Bhandari has expressed appreciation for China's help in Nepal's national development and post-disaster reconstruction.

For his part, Wang Yang said the pragmatic cooperation between the two countries has vast potential.

He's calling for an expansion of the scale of trade and investment, as well as cooperation in other areas.

Wang Yang is in Nepal after making a stop in Pakistan to help mark that country's 70th anniversary of independence.

China opposes U.S. religion report

Chinese authorities are refuting a new US report on religious freedom in China.

The United States has issued its annual religious freedom report this week, calling out seven countries, including China, for what it claims are serious problems when it comes to religious freedom.

The Chinese government says the report is a distortion of the realities in China.

Chinese authorities are also suggesting the annual report is a tool the US side is using to intervene in the internal affairs of other countries.

The Chinese government says it's launched an official diplomatic complaint connected to the new report.

U.S. repatriates wanted economic suspect to China

The United States law enforcement handed over an economic suspect who fled overseas more than 3-years ago to Chinese police.

The suspect, only identified by his surname Zhou, allegedly falsified documents and swindled loans and acceptance bills worth 53 million U.S. dollars from four financial institutions from 2013 to 2014.

Zhou is also accused of cheating others out of more than 31 million yuan in November 2013 by selling them shares in his Guangdong company which had already mortgaged to a bank.

Zhou fled to the United States in May 2014.

Chinese naval fleet arrives in Tanzania for friendly visit

A Chinese naval fleet has arrived in Tanzania's port city, Dar es Salaam, for a 4-day port-of-call.

A welcoming ceremony has been held at the city's main port, with more than 350 Chinese nationals working and living in Tanzania turning out to greet the Chinese naval vessels.

Tanzanian military officials have also attended the ceremony.

The Chinese fleet, including a destroyer, a missile frigate and a supply ship, has been making various ports-of-call this summer.

China to curb mercury pollution as global pact takes effect

Chinese authorities say they're planning to take more steps to try to reduce mercury pollution.

The pledge has been made to coincide with the implementation of an international anti-mercury treaty, which entered into force Wednesday.

China's Ministry of Environmental Protection says no new licenses for mercury mines are going to be issued.

Existing mercury mines in China are going to be shuttered over the next 25-years.

The Minamata Convention on Mercury is a global treaty adopted in 2013.

UN chief urges Pyongyang to fully implement international obligations

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is stepping into fray to try to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

Guterres, in calling on North Korea to comply with UN sanctions, says the latest resolutions can also be an opportunity to open the door for talks.

Guterres also says he's been in contact with all of those in the now-scuttled 6-party talks, suggesting the UN would be willing to facilitate a renewal of the negotiations.

The 6-party talks have been mothballed since 2009 after North Korea was hit with UN sanctions following a failed satellite launch, which was determined to be a breach of a previous UN resolution banning Pyongyang from conducting ballistic missile tests.

U.S., Canada, Mexico kick off NAFTA renegotiations amid uncertainty

The United States, Canada and Mexico have kicked off their first round of renegotiations on a potential re-tooling of North American Free Trade Agreement.

The re-negotiations have started amid widespread uncertainty and anxiety over the future of the trilateral trade deal.

US President Donald Trump campaigned heavily on either scrapping or renegotiating NAFTA, and has laid down a tough line ahead of the talks, demanding major changes to the pact that would reduce U.S. trade deficits with Mexico and Canada.

Former U.S. Presidents Bush condemn hatred

Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush have issued a joint statement condemning hatred in all forms.

This is in response to the weekend mayhem in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Both former Presidents say the United States needs to reject "racial bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred in all forms."

Both George W. Bush and Bush Senior both bucked anti-immigration Republican sentiment during their respective tenures in office.

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上期答案公布： Two more suicide bombers detonated their devices at a nearby refugee camp, leaving many others wounded.

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