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Xi holds phone talk with Modi on bilateral ties

Chinese President Xi Jinping has held a phone conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Modi first congratulated the Chinese leader again on being elected president.

Modi says both India and China are ancient civilizations with global influence, adding that India will work with China to enhance high-level exchanges, deepen bilateral ties, strengthen coordination and cooperation in international affairs, and further develop a partnership between the two countries.

Xi Jinping said he appreciated Modi's congratulations, saying the just-concluded annual sessions of the Chinese National People's Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) have achieved a great success.

Xi Jinping said China will deepen its reform and opening up, adding that China, while realizing its own development, will make greater contribution to the common development and progress of the world.

Supervision law gives legal teeth to China's graft-busting agency

The Supervision Law has been adopted by China's national legislature, legalizing a more sophisticated and efficient anti-graft network.

The law was adopted at the first session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) through a vote after three readings.

The new law integrates supervisory 48 29837 48 14397 0 0 3326 0 0:00:08 0:00:04 0:00:04 3325 power that was divided among three agencies.

Under the new law, supervisory commissions have their power legally regulated and supervised.

A senior lawmaker says the supervision law is an essential part of China's reform of supervisory institutions.

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Taiwan separatist attempts doomed to failure: mainland spokesperson

A Chinese mainland official says Taiwan separatists efforts will not succeed.

The official made the remarks in response to comments by the island's executive-head Lai Ching-te.

The Spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council says the Chinese mainland and Taiwan belong to one China.

Putin, Trump discuss cooperation by phone

The Kremlin says that U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his re-election and they discussed bilateral cooperation in a phone call on Tuesday.

The Kremlin said that Putin and Trump agreed on further contacts and paid particular attention to the question of holding a possible summit.

The Kremlin said the conversation was constructive, businesslike and focused on overcoming the accumulated problems in Russia-U.S. relations.

Trump also said that he believed he and Putin would meet "in the not too distant future" to discuss issues of mutual concern.

UN seeks access to Syria's Ghouta and Afrin as needs grow

The United Nations has demanded full access to civilians in the ravaged Syrian zone of eastern Ghouta and the northern town of Afrin, to meet their urgent humanitarian needs.

Marixie Mercado, UN Children's Fund or UNICEF spokeswoman, says people in that region, especially children, need urgent humanitarian assistance.

UNICEF says that most displaced children fall victim to diarrhea and respiratory infections, in addition to malnutrition.

The UN estimates that around 50,000 civilians, 70 percent of whom are women and children, have fled the besieged rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta, near Damascus.

Former French President Sarkozy in police custody over campaign financing

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has reportedly been in police custody for an investigation into his election campaign financing.

Sarkozy has reportedly appeared before financial magistrates near Paris, as part of an inquiry into whether he took cash from Libya to fund his successful election bid in 2007.

A judicial inquiry was opened as early as April 2013 into the suspected irregularities over the former president's campaign funding, after an online journal unveiled that Libya had offered money to finance his campaign.

In 2016, a French-Lebanese businessman revealed that he delivered three suitcases containing five million euros in cash, from late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to Sarkozy, as well as to Sarkozy's former chief of staff and campaign director, between 2006 and 2007.

Investigators working 'around the clock' as fifth device blows up in Texas

Officials say a package bomb has blown up at a FedEx Corp distribution center near San Antonio.

The FBI is investigating whether it is linked to a series of four homemade bombs that hit the Texas capital of Austin this month.

Officials do not say if the latest incident is the work of what Austin police believe could be a serial bomber responsible for the four earlier devices that killed two people and injured four others.

The blast at the FedEx facility in Schertz was the fifth in the state in the last 18 days.

BMW headquarters searched by police in emissions raid

German prosecutors have raided the headquarters of BMW as part of an investigation into a suspicious use of emissions cheating software.

The investigation was opened last month.

Law enforcement officials also searched a BMW engine plant in Austria.

The German luxury car maker says prosecutors looked into software in over 11-thousand vehicles.

However, it claims the findings did not reveal a deliberate manipulation of emissions.

Last month, BMW recalled nearly 12,000 cars to fix an engine management software issue.

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上期答案：Meanwhile, China's Defense Ministry also stressed that the bill has interfered in the internal affairs of China and injured the environment for the development of relations between the militaries of China and the US.

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