【英语简明新闻】Headline News 2015 January 28

Jordan confirms hostage swap with IS Jordan's information minister says his government is ready to swap an Iraqi woman held in Jordan for a Jordanian pilot captured in December by the Islamic State extremists. Mohammed al-Momani has made no mention of Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, who is also being held by the Islamic State. A message released by the Islamic State is threatening to kill both Goto and the Jordanian pilot within 24 hours. The Japanese government has been negotiating with Jordanian authorities to try to secure the release of Goto. New PM says Greece will not default New Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says his country will not default on its debts. Addressing his first cabinet meeting since being elected on Sunday, the head of the left-wing Syriza party does say he wants to negotiate with the country's creditors to re-tool Greece's 240 billion euro bailout package. However, the European Union is warning Tsipras' new government to stick to its creditor commitments. Envoys of US, SKorea and Japan meet on NKorea nuclear issue Envoys from the United States, South Korea and Japan have met in Tokyo for talks on North Korea. The meeting brought together US's Sung Kim, South Korea's Hwang Joon-kook, and Japan's Junichi Ihara. The three envoys are expected to discuss ways to resume the six-party talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear ambitions. The meeting comes amid deterioration in US-DPRK relations after Washington imposed additional sanctions on Pyongyang earlier this month over the Sony Pictures cyber attack which it claims was carried out by North Korea. North Korea has denied any involvement in the Sony hack. Five foreigners killed in Tripoli hotel attack Officials say 10 people, including five foreigners, are confirmed dead following a Tuesday attack on a luxury hotel in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. The attack, which included a car bombing, struck the Corinthia Hotel, a popular tourist hotel situated along the Mediterranean. A senior US State Department official has confirmed the death of one American. Few other details have been forthcoming at this point. A group associating itself with the Islamic State is claiming credit for the attack, which saw gunmen enter the hotel in Tripoli after setting off a massive car bomb out front of the facility. Recovery of AirAsia bodies to continue: officials Indonesia's search and rescue officials say the search operation to recover bodies and wreckage from the crashed AirAsia flight will continue despite the military's withdrawal from the mission. Search team chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo says that rescue teams have rested for two days, but will be back at work starting from Saturday morning for a full week. So far, 70 bodies have been recovered from AirAsia Flight 8501. The plane crashed at the end of last year with 162 people on board while flying from Surabaya, Indonesia's second largest city, to Singapore. South Sudan militia frees first group of child soldiers – UN The UN's children's agency is reporting a South Sudanese militia has freed 280 child soldiers. This is part of a broader-based deal to see the release of around 3-thousand underage fighters thought to be engaged in the civil war in the country. UNICEF has helped negotiate the children's freedom from the militia which has recently made peace with the government. UNICEF estimates around 12-thousand children have been forcibly recruited by different armed groups in South Sudan over the past year. 43 missing students in Mexico declared dead Mexican authorities have officially declared 43 college students missing since September dead. Mexico's attorney general says they have undeniable evidence the students were killed by a gang, with their bodies burnt at a garbage dump. Despite this, relatives have rejected the official explanation, vowing to continue the searching for their loved ones. China and African Union sign a memorandum on infrastucture cooperations China and the African Union have signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation on major infrastructure networks and the broader industrialization process in Africa. The MOU covers high speed rail, aviation and highways construction. A number of projects connected to the new agreement have already been completed in countries including Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and Djibouti. China's first circuit court established in Shenzhen China's Supreme People's Court has unveiled its first circuit court in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. The new circuit court in Shenzhen will hear administrative, civil and commercial cases from the country's south, including Guangxi, Guangdong and Hainan. It's designed to save litigants time and money, instead of being forced to travel to Beijing. Aside from hearing cases in Shenzhen, the circuit court will also travel to Hainan and Guangxi to hear local cases. A second circuit court is slated to open later this month in the city of Shenyang to cover China's northeast. Both courts will start hearing cases on Sunday. Mainland's top Taiwan affairs official to visit Kinmen A delegation led by the mainland's top Taiwan affairs official is scheduled to visit Kinmen next week. Zhang Zhijun is due to meet with Taiwan's mainland affairs chief, Wang Yu-chi, in Kinmen to discuss cross-Strait affairs. A year ago, Wang Yu-chi became one of the leading officials from Taiwan to visit the mainland since the two sides split in the civil war in the late 1940s. Kinmen, located just a few kilometers off the mainland coast, was a war-time frontline area between the mainland and Taiwan in the 1950s and 1960s. Administered by authorities on Taiwan, Kinmen is now a popular tourist spot.