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GERMANY

Beijing, Berlin to hold financial dialogue

China and Germany will hold the third High-level Financial Dialogue in Germany on Sunday, China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning announced on Thursday. China's Vice-Premier He Lifeng will co-chair the dialogue with German Finance Minister Christian Lindner, Mao said. The China-Germany High-level Financial Dialogue was established in 2014, serving as an important platform for bilateral communication and policy coordination on strategic, overarching and long-term issues in financial fields.

SPACE MISSION

3 astronauts return after 371-day stay

Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos announced that two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut safely returned to the Earth on Wednesday after living for a year on the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, carrying Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, and Frank Rubio, had undocked from the ISS and landed in Kazakhstan, Roscosmos said. After a 371-day stay in space, Prokopyev and Petelin made the longest flight program in ISS history.

China Daily - Xinhua