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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Sept. 23

Xinhua, September 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

Chinese President Xi Jinping kicked off his first state visit to the United States in West Coast city Seattle on Tuesday, a landmark trip aimed at building up trust and stepping up cooperation between the world's two biggest economies.

Xi is scheduled to meet government and business leaders, visit school teachers and students, and deliver a speech on China-U.S. relations during his stay in Seattle, a world-known technology and aviation hub. The city and its neighboring areas are home to Microsoft and Boeing's main airplane assembly plants. (U.S.-China-State Visit)

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UNTIED NATIONS -- The United Nations is very pleased that Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit its New York headquarters, a UN spokesman said Tuesday.

"We are very pleased that President Xi will be visiting the United Nations as part of the (celebrations of the) 70th anniversary (since the founding of the bloc)," Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, told a regular briefing. (UN-China-Visit)

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BRUSSELS -- The European commissioners here on Wednesday set out a set of priority actions to be taken within the next six months in coping with the refugee crisis, ahead of an European Union informal summit.

They achieved consensus at the commissioners' meeting here on Wednesday, and the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will present these to European Heads of State and Government later Wednesday at an informal Summit. (EU-Migrant)

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CAIRO -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday pardoned 100 prisoners, including Al Jazeera journalists Canadian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed, state-media reported.

On Aug. 29, Fahmy and Mohamed along with Australian Peter Greste were sentenced to three years in prison over charges of aiding the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood group and spreading false news. (Egypt-Sisi-Pardon) Endi