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CHINA

Foreign minister to kick off six-day official visit

Foreign Minister Wang Yi will kick off a six-day official visit to Indonesia, Cambodia and Papua New Guinea starting from Thursday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian has announced. During the visit, Wang will also chair the Fourth Meeting of the China-Indonesia High-Level Dialogue Cooperation Mechanism and the Seventh Meeting of the China-Cambodia Intergovernmental Coordination Committee, Lin told a daily news briefing on Tuesday.

AUSTRALIA

Sydney stabbing called 'terrorist' act

Australian police on Tuesday said a brutal knife attack during a livestreamed church service was a religiously motivated "terrorist" act. Two people were stabbed when a 16-year-old rushed to the dais at an Assyrian Christian church in western Sydney late on Monday, slashing wildly at the bishop who was giving a sermon. The attacker was immediately subdued by outraged congregants and later taken into police custody.

Agencies - China Daily