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Chinese envoy urges political solution to Ukraine crisis
A Chinese envoy to the United Nations is urging a political solution in addressing the Ukraine issue, in a show of support for a UN Security Council resolution on the crisis.
Liu Jieyi, China's permanent representative to the UN says China supports Resolution 2202 that was just adopted by the council.
The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution endorsing measures for the implementation of the new truce on the Ukraine crisis.
Liu also says China welcomes and views positively the "Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk Agreements," achieved last week in Minsk, Belarus.
He adds China stands ready to continue to play an active and constructive role in promoting a political resolution of the Ukraine issue.
Russia's Putin visits Hungary in bid for support from EU member
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a breif stop-over in Hungary.
The trip has coincided with the European Union increasing its sanctions on Moscow.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Putin have discussed Russian gas supplies into Hungary.
A contract between the two countries ends later this year.
No new contract has been signed.
However, Putin has agreed to continue supplying Hungary with natural gas until a new contract is worked out.
Indonesian president drops nomination for national police chief
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has dropped the nomination of Commissioner General Budi Gunawan for national police chief and replaced him with Commissioner General Badrodin Haiti who is now the acting national police chief.
President Widodo made the announcement at the State Palace on Wednesday.
He said the change came due to the controversy surrounding Gunawan, and in order to create stability and meet the country's need for a definitive police chief.
The new candidate still must gain approval from the House of Representatives.
Canadian convicted of killing Chinese student withdraws appeal
A Canadian man found guilty of killing and dismembering a Chinese student has dropped an appeal for his first-degree murder conviction.
Luka Rocco Magnotta, 32, was convicted on charges including the first-degree murder of Jun Lin, 33, a computer engineering student at Concordia University, in 2012.
Magnotta was also found guilty of dismembering Lin and mailing body parts to several Canadian political parties and to two elementary schools.
Magnotta had admitted to the acts underlying the five offenses he was charged with, including killing Lin, but pleaded not guilty to each charge on grounds of mental illness.
In Canada, a first-degree murder conviction stipulates an automatic life sentence with no possibility of parole for 25 years.
3 Chinese students killed, 1 injured in Canada car accident
Three Chinese students are dead, and one other is in hospital following a car accident in Edmonton, Canada.
The SUV was in rolled on a highway just south of the northern Canadian city.
The injured woman, said to be around 25-years old, is in critical condition.
The Chinese Consulate-General's office is now involved.
Peng Shuai, Wang Qiang Out, Halep and Kvitova Through at Dubai Open
Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai is out of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships after losing a close match to Bulgaria's Tsvetana Pironkova in the tournament's second round earlier today.
Amid desert heat reaching past 25 degrees Celsius, Peng, a semi-finalist of last year's U.S. Open, won the first set 6-3, but dropped the next set 6-4; the third set came down to a hard-fought tie-break that eventually went in Pironkova's favor 7-6.
Pironkova will go on to meet top-seeded Romanian Simona Halep, who eased into the third round with a comprehensive 6-2, 6-0 victory over Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova.
Also out of the tournament is China's Wang Qiang, who went down to tenth-seed Italian Flavia Pennetta in straight sets.
Pennetta is set to meet seventh-seeded Angelique Kerber in the next round.
Empire State Building lit in observance of Lunar New Year
The Empire State Building in the U.S. city of New York was lit up Tuesday in red and yellow to ring in the Chinese Lunar New Year.
The lighting is designed to show a spirit of friendship between the United States and China, and will continue throughout Wednesday.
Chinese Consul General in New York Zhang Qiyue presided over the lighting ceremony, pulling a light switch to illuminate the red and yellow lights of the building's model.
The annual lighting ceremony has been held at the building since 2001.
Feminist and Singer-Songwriter Lesley Gore dies at 68
Singer-songwriter Lesley Gore, who topped charts in 1963 at age 16 with her epic song of teenage angst, "It's My Party," and followed it up with the feminist anthem "You Don't Own Me," has died.
Gore died of lung cancer at New York University Langone Medical Center in Manhattan, according to her partner of 33 years, Lois Sasson.
Brooklyn-born and New Jersey-raised, Gore was discovered by Quincy Jones as a teenager and signed to Mercury Records.
In the last few years, she performed at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency in New York and, along with Ronnie Spector and LaLa Brooks, headlined the "She's Got the Power" concert outdoors at Lincoln Center in 2012.
Gore is survived by her partner in addition to her brother and mother. She was 68.
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