China’s effort to eliminate poverty is one of the greatest stories in human history, World Bank President Kim said recently. “With the evolution of the Chinese economic system and its embrace of the global market, China has lifted about 800 million people out of poverty,” the World Bank chief noted. Source: People’s Daily
This Sunday around 1:30 in the morning, police were caught by around forty individuals in the city of laurels in the 13th arrondissement of Marseille. The attackers surrounded the police officers and beat them up. The police asked for reinforcements and were forced to shoot in the air with their service weapon, to escape. Source Actu 17
Clashes in southern Tripoli have killed 96 and injured more than 300 since it began on August 26, said the Wounded Affairs Department of the Libyan Ministry of Health on Friday, Xinhua reported. Source Trend News
Cyprus was trying to secure the release of five fishermen who were taken into custody by a Turkish warship Friday as they were fishing off the northern coast of the ethnically divided Mediterranean island nation. Source Ekathimerini
