Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Jan. 12

LONDON -- A 27-year-old female British national has been arrested at Heathrow Airport after arriving on a flight from Ethiopia on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, Scotland Yard said. (Britain-Heathrow-Terrorist)

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DUBAI -- Qatar's complaint about the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) violation of its airspace is "incorrect," said the UAE's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash Friday. (UAE-Qatar-Airspace)

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ISTANBUL -- The jailed co-chair of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) appeared before a court in Istanbul on Friday for the first time since his detention in November 2016. (Turkey-Kurds-Court)

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LUSAKA -- The number of cholera cases in Zambia have now reached 3,077, with Lusaka, the country's capital accounting for the bulk of the cases, health authorities said on Friday. (Zambia-Health-Cholera)

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GENEVA -- The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday described as "shocking," "shameful" and "racist" comments by U.S, President Donald Trump on immigrants from countries like Haiti and Africa. (Switzerland-OHCHR-Trump)

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SEOUL -- South Korea has offered to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) holding a working-level dialogue next week in the truce village of Panmunjom to discuss details on the DPRK's participation in the South Korea-hosted Winter Olympics, Seoul's unification ministry said Friday. (South Korea-DPRK-Dialogue)

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BERLIN -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives (CDU-CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) on Friday achieved a breakthrough in their exploratory talks aimed at forming a new coalition government, local media reported. (Germany-Coalition-Breakthrough) Enditem