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Xinhua world news summary at 0130 GMT, June 21

Xinhua, June 21, 2016 Adjust font size:

Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called on China and Poland to build their partnership into a paradigm of cooperation within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Xi made the remarks at the Silk Road Forum and Poland-China Regional Cooperation and Business Forum held in the Polish capital. (China-Poland-cooperation)

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WARSAW -- Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, on Monday attended an arrival ceremony of a CHINA RAILWAY Express freight train, which signaled increasing railway links between the two countries.

The freight train carrying dozens of containers pulled into a cargo terminal in the Polish capital on Monday afternoon after travelling over 12 days from China.

Xi and Duda congratulated each other on the historic moment for the arrival of the first China-Europe freight train under the family brand CHINA RAILWAY Express. (China-Poland-freight train)

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WARSAW -- China and Poland agreed on Monday to upgrade their ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership during Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Poland.

Xi and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda made the announcement after they held talks at the Presidential Palace. The two countries established a strategic partnership in 2011. (China-Poland-Relationship)

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LUSAKA -- Health officials in Lusaka, the Zambian capital, on Monday declared the city free from a cholera outbreak which broke out in February this year.

The water-borne disease broke out in February this year with 965 cases and 26 deaths. (Zambia-cholera)

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VIENNA -- Austria's constitutional court on Monday started to questioning election officials to decide whether Alexander Van der Bellen was elected as president of Austria.

Right wing Freedom Party (FPO) candidate Norbert Hofer was defeated by Green party candidate Alexander Van der Bellen by just over 30,000 votes out of more than 4.5 million ballots. (Austria-president-election)

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KATHMAMNDU -- Nepal will make arrangement for return of Nepalese working in Afghanistan if they wish to come back home after 14 Nepalese were reportedly killed in a suicide bomb attack there, a Nepalese cabinet minister said on Monday.

The Nepal government has confirmed the identities of 12 Nepalese killed during attack whose responsibility has been taken by Taliban insurgents.

(Nepal-Afghanistan-worker)

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RAMALLAH -- Around two thirds of the Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are unemployed, an official Palestinian statistical report published on Monday said.

The report issued by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistic (PCBS) to mark the International day of refugees which coincided on Monday showed the rates of unemployment among Palestinian refugees reached 32.3 percent in 2015. (Palestine-refugee)

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TEHRAN -- Iran's Foreign Ministry condemned on Monday Bahrain's move to strip the citizenship of the country's top Shiite cleric, Sheikh Isa Qassim, Press TV reported.

The ministry also condemned the Bahraini regime's "intensification of its security approach toward religious and national leaders, opposition to religious beliefs and principles, and misappropriation of religious assets and funds of the Bahraini people," according to the report. (Iran-Shiite-citizenship) Endi