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The development of Chinese green finance, the green bond market in particular, will lead investment and financing trends in Asia-Pacific, and green bonds will be a highlight of the international bond market in 2017, indicated insiders at the ICMA Asia Primary Market Forum held on 2 March in Hong Kong.
The UN Security Council on Wednesday "condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly terrorist attacks" that occurred earlier in the day in the Afghan capital of Kabul, which killed at least 15 people and injured dozens.
Israel's parliament has passed a controversial law retroactively legalising about 4,000 homes built on settlements in the occupied West Bank.
A Dutch minister called on Tuesday for setting up an international fund for safe abortions and contraceptives after U.S. President Donald Trump decided to ban U.S. funding of abortion in other nations.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has called on Muslim countries to lead international action over the plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims.
Palestinian observers say Israel's objection to an international peace conference, expected in Paris later this month, poses a real threat to make the event a failure but could not undermine its political significance to the Palestinians.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry said Saturday that it welcomed the UN Security Council resolution that demands an end to the Israeli settlement building in occupied Palestinian territories, Tehran Times daily reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed at the Obama administration on Saturday, after a U.S. abstention in a UN vote that passed a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement construction.
A Chinese envoy Monday called on the international community to improve the security situation in Afghanistan and to strengthen the country's independent defense and counter-terrorism capabilities.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday met here with Meng Hongwei, president of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), and they vowed to further the cooperation between the two international organizations.
A Chinese envoy on Tuesday told the UN Security Council that it was all the more important for the international community to seek a political settlement to the Syrian crisis since current situation there is complex and sensitive.
The UN Security Council on Sunday "condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly terrorist attacks" in Istanbul, Turkey, which left at least 39 people dead and 155 others injured.
The UN Security Council on Sunday "condemned in the strongest terms" a terrorist attack in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, which killed at least 25 people, stressing that "those responsible for these killings should be held accountable."
Palestine on Tuesday lamented "in specific" the UN Security Council's failure to make peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, saying that "continued international appeasement and inaction are indefensible."
It's still hard to tell whether Donald Trump's future policies as president will affect the number of foreign students in the United States, but some experts believe that there will not be a big shift.
The White House said on Tuesday U.S. President Barack Obama would not sign any bill in his final months in office that would undermine the Iran nuclear deal.
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