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Xinhua world news summary at GMT 1600, July 1

Xinhua, July 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

Austria's constitutional court on Friday accepted a challenge filed by the anti-immigration Freedom Party over the run-off presidential election on May 22, and ordered the election to be held again.

Constitutional Court President Gerhart Holzinger said in a statement released here that the vote will be held nationwide, not simply in some electoral districts as media had speculated may happen. (Austria-Presidential Election)

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BRUSSELS -- The European Union (EU) on Friday announced to prolong the economic sanctions targeting specific sectors of the Russian economy until Jan. 31, 2017.

According to a press release issued by the Council of the EU, the economic sanctions prolonged with the decision include limiting access to EU primary and secondary capital markets for five major Russian majority state-owned financial institutions and their majority-owned subsidiaries established outside of the EU, as well as three major Russian energy and three defense companies. (EU-Russia-Sanctions)

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MOSCOW -- An IL-76 aircraft carrying some 11 people and conducting a rescue mission in territories affected by forest fire in Russia's Irkutsk region went missing, Russian news agency Sputnik reported Friday.

The aircraft failed to report back as scheduled, the news agency cited local emergency services sources as saying. "The aircraft with rescuers on board should have made contact at 6:30 local time (0330 GMT)." (Russia-Aircraft Missing)

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NEW DELHI -- Over 30 people were killed and several others missing as torrential rains and landslides hit the northern Indian state Uttarakhand early Friday, said officials.

The government was rushing rescue teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) to the hilly state, said Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh, after cloudburst and heavy rains caused havoc in Pithoragarh and Chamoli districts of the state. (India-Torrential Rains) Endi