Off the wire
• China, Laos vow to further develop comprehensive strategic cooperation partnership  • Feature: Kids have fun building Lego at Lisbon's MEO Fan event  • Across China: Industrial province restructures to thrive amid overcapacity  • Lafite case suggests better Chinese IP protection  • Yanbian suffers second consecutive defeat in CSL  • News Analysis: Obama, to speak or not to speak about EU referendum, that is the question  • 62 arrests in telecom fraud case  • S. African president calls for unity among ruling party  • China Exclusive: U.S. RMB trading, clearing advocates make rallying call  • Roundup: British media have their say on Obama: special relationship a one-way street  
You are here: 　 Home

Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, April 23

Xinhua, April 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

A man suspected in two shootings that left five people dead Friday night in the southern U.S. state of Georgia has been found dead, local police said.

The double shootings occurred at two separate locations early Friday evening in Appling. Four victims died at the scene, while the fifth one died on the way to hospital, WRDW-TV reported Friday. Captain Andy Shedd with the Columbia County Sheriff's office said 50-year-old Wayne Anthony Hawes' body was discovered Saturday by the authorities in his Georgia home.(Georgia-Shooting-Deaths)

- - - -

SEOUL -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in eastern waters, ahead of its army founding day anniversary next week, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JSC) said.

The projectile, estimated to have been a missile launched from a DPRK submarine, was fired at about 6:30 p.m. local time (0930 GMT) in waters off the DPRK's South Hamgyong province. The Saturday launch came ahead of the 65th anniversary of the Korean People's Army (KPA)'s founding day that falls on April 25. (DPRK-S.korea-Missile)

- - - -

NEW DELHI -- At least 150 people have died so far in an intense heat wave that have been sweeping large parts of India since the beginning of April, an official said Saturday.

"The worst-hit have been the eastern state of Odisha, which accounts for half of the deaths, and the southern states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh," he said. Indian weather department has predicted that severe heat wave conditions are likely to prevail in some states for the next four to five days.

- - - -

KHARTOUM -- About 97.72 percent of voters in Sudan's Darfur referendum have chosen to keep the region's five-state status quo, an elections committee said on Saturday.

The referendum on whether to keep the region's current administrative system of five states or unite them into one region was conducted during April 11-13. Major rebel movements in Darfur refused to take part in the referendum, demanding that the central government fulfills their demands of reaching a political solution with the armed groups and financially compensating citizens affected by the conflict. (Sudan-Referendum) Endi