Japan

Abe to affirm 1995 apology

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday that he and his cabinet will follow the statement made by then-prime minister Tomiichi Murayama in 1995 on Japan's reflection and apologies to war-related history. Abe made the remark during a parliamentary committee session and said that he never denied Japan's invasion and colonial occupation, adding Japan deeply regrets having inflicted great damage and suffering on China and the Korean Peninsula.

Russia

Chinese women found dead

Three Chinese women reportedly missing were found dead in Russia's southern Siberian republic of Khakassia. Police found three charred bodies near a village late on Wednesday after a Chinese woman reported that her three female companions disappeared. A preliminary investigation showed that the bodies were the three missing women.

United States

Tornadoes claim 6 in Texas

At least six people were killed and scores more injured when tornadoes ripped through a stretch of Texas near Dallas-Fort Worth after dark on Wednesday, destroying homes and uprooting trees, authorities said.

Xinhua-Reuters

(China Daily 05/17/2013 page10)