GABORONE David Savard Womens Jersey , Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese student art troupe sent by China Confucius Institute Headquarters on Sunday staged a Chinese art performance in Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana.
The troupe comprised of students from China's Nanjing Tech University is on its art tour at six universities in three southern African countries. They came to the University of Botswana after concluding performances in South Africa. Namibia will be their last stop.
The art tour is part of the celebrations of the second annual Global Confucius Institutes Day. In 2014, Confucius Institute Headquarters designated September 27 as the Global Confucius Institute Day.
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He is believed to be born on Sept. 28. China started to conduct annual commemorations of Confucius from 478 BC, the year after his death.
The Confucius Institutes were established in 2004 as a tool to help non-native speakers learn the Chinese language.
"The performance is good, I like Tai-chi (a kind of Chinese martial art) most as music and actions are very attractive," said a student from the University of Botswana.
The University of Botswana has established Botswana's first Confucius Institute in 2009 under the partnership with Shanghai Normal University of China.
The Confucius Institute at the University of Botswana now has 12 teachers with above 4 Ryan Murray Womens Jersey ,700 graduates.
BERLIN, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced at a press conference on Tuesday that his platform will release new material in the coming months.
It is planned to publish new material every week in the next ten weeks, Assange said in a live video broadcast to Berlin on the 10th birthday of WikiLeaks.
The new releases will cover the themes such as oil, weapons and corporations like google, according to Assange.
Meanwhile, WikiLeaks also wants to publish new details for the U.S. election, but left the exact date open. However, WikiLeaks is working on publishing the material before the election date on November 8, said Assange.
The upcoming publications were "of significant importance for the elections," the 45-year-old Australian said in response to a question whether the new information "will destroy the Democratic presidential candidate."
With a view to the 10th anniversary of the founding of WikiLeaks, Assange emphasized that despite all the hostility of "powerful opponents," the website is still well positioned.
"We have a strong position, we are debt free and completely independent," he said.
"The attacks only make us stronger," Assange said, "We believe in what we do, and when we are put under pressure, we will fight back."
WikiLeaks has published hundreds of thousands of secret documents over the past few years, including the U.S. military's actions in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
The Australian, who has taken refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 2012, claimed that Sweden intends to hand him over to the United States, where he may face espionage charges for leaking thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables and, if convicted, could be given a death penalty.
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ANKARA, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim warned on Saturday that Turkey's steps in response to a planned independence referendum in northern Iraq's Kurdish region will have security, diplomatic, political and economic dimensions.
Speaking to reporters in the central province of Kirsehir Sonny Milano Womens Jersey , he said the planned independence referendum was wrong and an ""adventurist"" move that put Turkey at risk, and Turkey will be in close cooperation with Iran and Iraq to response.
When asked if a cross-border operation was among the steps, he said that possible responses to the referendum include security, economic Cam Atkinson Womens Jersey , and political options, saying it was ""a question of timing.""
The prime minister underlined that those who made the decision to hold the referendum would pay a price.
On Friday, Turkey's National Security Council warned northern Iraq against holding a referendum on independence would cause ""grave results,"" and called the referendum to be completely cancelled.
On June 7 Matt Calvert Womens Jersey , the Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government President Masoud Barzani announced his plan to hold a referendum on Sept. 25 on seeking independence of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region from Iraq.