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Chinese Premier sends congratulations on opening of Greece's largest trade fair

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has extended congratulations on the opening of 82nd Thessaloniki International Fair, Greece's largest annual trade fair, presided over by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

A 6,000-square meter Chinese pavilion houses exhibits from over 100 Chinese enterprises.

Chinese exhibits cover such areas as transportation, telecommunications, energy, intelligent manufacturing and environmental protection.

In the congratulatory message, Li Keqiang said that China was the first guest-of-honor country participating in the Thessaloniki fair back in 1998.

The Greek Prime Minister said China is a power with a strategic plan and Greece can only benefit from bilateral cooperation.

Top 500 Chinese companies' revenue sets record in 2016

The combined revenue of China's top 500 companies in 2016 has set a new record after a two-year decline.

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State Grid Corporation of China ranked first with revenue of over 320 billion dollars, followed by Sinopec and PetroChina.

Internet companies such as Baidu, Tencent, and e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com, were also on the list.

Church knife attack injures 3 in Birmingham

Three Sunday worshippers have reportedly been stabbed in an attack at a church service in the English city of Birmingham.

Around 150 people were in the church in Aston for the Sunday morning service when a man with a large kitchen knife came in.

According to witnesses, the man was restrained by ushers before he stormed inside the church.

The Birmingham Mail reports that three men were injured and taken to hospital.

Police stats show there were over 34,000 offenses across England and Wales last year, up twenty percent from a year earlier.

Hurricane Irma slams Florida

Hurricane Irma has weakened to Category 2 as it slams the US state of Florida, but forecasts have warned it would remain a powerful storm as it flooded Miami streets and knocked out power to about 2 million homes and businesses.

Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said on Sunday the effects of Irma would be felt across South Florida for a while after the storm passes.

A second crane collapsed Sunday afternoon in downtown Miami as a result of Irma's high winds.

6.5 million people, about a third of the state's population, have been ordered to evacuate southern Florida.

NYC to mark 16th anniversary of 9/11 attacks

The US is set to mark the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.

An event, to be held by the National September 11 Memrorial and Museum in New York City, will remember the nearly three thousand people killed in the terror attacks, as well as those who died in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

The ceremony is set to take place on Monday at the 9/11 Memorial Plaza at the World Trade Center site.

Germany's Merkel offers diplomatic initiative for North Korea nuclear issue

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is reportedly ready to intervene directly in a diplomatic initiative to end the nuclear and missile program of North Korea.

The German Chancellor drew attention to the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program, in which Germany had participated alongside the five veto-members in the UN Security Council.

Merkel says she could also imagine such a format for the settlement of the North Korea issue, and Germany should be ready to contribute an active part.

Syrian army captures Tharda Mountains in Deir al-Zour

The Syrian army has captured the Tharda Mountains in the southern rim of Deir al-Zour province in eastern Syria.

They have also secured the area around an airbase in the region, as the mountains function as the airbase's first defense line.

On Saturday, the Syrian army and allied troops broke the Islamic State siege on the airbase, just a week after lifting the IS' three-year siege on the capital city of Deir al-Zour.

The army on Sunday seized full control of the main road from the capital Damascus to Deir al-Zour city in eastern Syria, stripping the IS of key areas along the road.

Deir al-Zour is a key stronghold for IS and of a strategic geographic importance due to its proximity to Iraq.

Iraqi forces detain 1,400 family members of killed or surrendered IS fighters

Iraqi authorities have detained 14-hundred wives and children of suspected Islamic State fighters at a camp near the newly-freed city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

All the detainees are of foreign nationalities.

Government officials say security forces are conducting interrogations in a detention camp south of Mosul, to determine their countries of origin, as many of them no longer have their original documents.

The nationalities of the detainees reportedly vary from Russian and Turkish to other countries of Europe and Asia.

Sources say they are wives and children of IS militants who were either killed in battles in Tal Afar with Iraqi forces or surrendered to the Iraqi forces and the Kurdish Peshmerga forces.

On Aug. 31, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared full liberation of the city of Tal Afar and surrounding areas from the extremist IS militants.

Rafael Nadal wins US Open men's singles, grabs 16th Grand Slam title

Rafael Nadal has beaten Kevin Anderson to win the US Open men's singles final at Flushing Meadows.

The 31-year-old Spaniard defeated Anderson 6-3 6-3 6-4 to grab his 16th grand slam title.

The US Open was Nadal's last Grand Slam where he trained with his uncle Toni, before Carlos Moya takes over the coaching role next year.

上期回顾：中国已向韩国提出严正交涉

上期答案公布：He said China has consistently called for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and has been a supporter of the international nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

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