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CHINA

Deepened exchanges vowed with Germany, EU

China is a partner of Germany and Europe in terms of win-win cooperation and common development, and the common interests between them far outweigh their differences, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday. Wang made the remarks during a meeting in Beijing with Wolfgang Ischinger, president of the Munich Security Conference Foundation Council. Wang said Beijing "attaches great importance to China-Germany and China-EU relations". Wang stated his hope to Ischinger to continue driving the Munich Security Conference in making contributions to deepening exchanges and cooperation between China, Germany and the EU, and to focus on listening to the voices of developing countries and pooling more strengths to solve common global challenges. Ischinger said he highly values exchanges and cooperation with China, thanked China for its active support to the Munich Security Conference over the years, and that he is willing to further promote the cooperative relationship between the two sides. He also expressed his willingness to deepen mutual understanding and trust between China and Germany and between China and Europe.

27 more Chinese evacuated from Haiti

As of Friday, all Chinese nationals who are willing to leave Haiti had been safely evacuated to the Dominican Republic, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said. Speaking at a regular news conference in Beijing, Mao said another 27 Chinese nationals were safely evacuated on Thursday after 24 Chinese citizens were brought away last month. Also on Thursday, the Chinese side has assisted a Philippine national to leave the country in the Caribbean Sea, where the chaotic security situation is growing more dangerous.

UNITED STATES

FBI chief concerned about possible attack

FBI Director Christopher Wray warned lawmakers on Thursday that there is a growing fear among law enforcement officials of a "coordinated attack" inside the United States, after an assault claimed by the Islamic State on a concert hall in Moscow last month killed 145 people and wounded hundreds more. The March 23 attack in Moscow by the terror group's Afghanistan affiliate has raised concerns that the group could carry out similar attacks in the US and Europe. Wray has issued similar warnings about threats to US security in the past.

O.J. Simpson, star turned murder defendant, dies

O.J. Simpson, the football star and actor who was sensationally acquitted in 1995 of murdering his former wife in what US media dubbed the "trial of the century", has died at the age of 76. His family said in a social media post on Thursday that he had died on Wednesday after a battle with cancer. Simpson was found not guilty in the 1994 stabbing deaths of former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles, although he was found responsible for her death in a lawsuit.

China Daily - Agencies