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China has long rejected criticism of its rights' record as put forth by the US.
The relocation will be voluntary rather than under a quota - a development that has infuriated Italian diplomats.
Russia has said western countries were obliged to ensure that Kiev also stuck by the terms of the Minsk agreement.
ISIL forces also attacked Hasakah, a Syrian town run by YPG and Syrian government forces on the border with Turkey.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is the first major global financial instrument independent from the Bretton Woods system.
Russia also said the EU decision to prolong the sanctions was "guaranteed to cause hundreds of thousands of Europeans to lose their jobs".
The earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25 has killed at least 7,759 people.
Al-Shabaab militants have regularly attacked countries which support the Western-backed government in Mogadishu.
Once the agreement is approve by the NPC Standing Committee, the Chinese government will inject $10 billion as prescribed.
China's earlier attempts to regulate cybersecurity were most clearly articulated in bank-technology guidelines and a proposed counter-terrorism law.
