Directly after the press conference condemning IS for beheading American journalist James Foley Cheap Nike Air Max 98 Sale UK , Obama went to play a round of golf where he was pictured in a good mood, laughing with ex-NBA basketball player Alonzo Mourning and fist-bumping Cyrus Walker, the cousin of White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett. Businessman Glenn Hutchins was also pictured out on the course.
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Secretary of State John Kerry released a statement 90 minutes after Obama's press conference, saying that Foley 'was brave and bold, and no masked coward can ever steal the legacy of this courageous American.'
He noted that Foley had been held in captivity once before – in Libya – before ultimately winning his release.
'The sheer unfairness and unlikely odds that this young journalist would again find himself in captivity in another conflict was almost unimaginable,' he said.
'It is impossible to express how much we all wanted this latest horror to end with his family reunited Cheap Nike Air Max 98 Shoes UK , as it had been the first time.'
British Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday that Foley's killing was 'murder without any justification,' and seemed resigned to the fact that his executioner is from the UK.
'We have not identified the individual responsible,' he said from No. 10 Downing Street, 'but from what we have seen it looks increasingly likely that it is a British citizen.'
The Prime Minister condemned 'the barbaric and brutal act that has taken place.'
And 'let's be clear what this act is,' he said. 'It is an act of murder.'
Agencies
China recently published its first book on the theories of the nine-dash line of the South China Sea, China Ocean News reported Monday.
The book Cheap Nike Air Max 98 UK , mainly illustrating the history, functions and legal basis of the nine-dash line, is authored by Chinese maritime experts from the China Institute for Marine Affairs, the School of Law at Tsinghua University and the International Law Association.
The book states that the nine-dash line is a historical line of maritime rights, which include the right to claim Chinese sovereignty on islands of the South China Sea and the right for Chinese fishing and the exploration of mineral resources inside the line.
The book concludes that any attempt or behavior to deny or deprive the rights that the nine-dash line stands for is legally wrong and politically impractical.
Gao Zhiguo, one of the authors of the book Cheap Air Max 98 UK , said that the book has clearly summarized and explained the definition and legal basis of the nine-dash line, providing an important legal ground for China to guard maritime rights.
The year of 2014 marks the 100th year of the announcement of the nine-dash line. After the return of the Xisha and Nansha Islands to China, the government in 1948 mapped out the line, which is clearly marked in historical documents and world maps drawn by different countries.
The financial services affiliate of Alibaba launched on Wednesday a system that will use the e-commerce giant's data trove to assess the creditworthiness of Chinese consumers and businesses with little or no history at traditional lenders.
The credit-scoring system, Sesame Credit, will mine user data as well as payment histories from Alibaba Group Holding's various platforms Discount Nike Air Max 98 UK , according to a statement Ant Financial Services Group sent to the Global Times Wednesday.
Users can get their credit reports through Alipay Wallet, a mobile payment app developed by Ant Financial, and they will be rated by scores of between 350 and 950 based on their credit history, behavior preference, the ability to honor an agreement, identity feature and social connections.
Sesame Credit has partnered with car and house rental, dating and visa services providers and will roll out related services soon.
When a user's credit reaches a certain score, he or she can rent cars or book hotels without paying a deposit and the score can also be used to help users in applying for a visa, according to the statement.
Chief Data Scientist Yu Wujie said the system would take into conasideration, among several factors Nike Air Max 98 Kids UK , whether consumers are active Internet users, have a stable residential address and have been using the same mobile phone number for a long time.
Set up in 2014, Ant Financial has been growing rapidly, largely through targeting smaller businesses and hundreds of millions of consumers who are often underserved by China's larger banks. Its services include payment processing, personal banking, wealth management Nike Air Max 98 Youth UK , small business loans, personal credit and insurance.
China's central bank issued a notice on January 5, allowing eight institutions including Sesame Credit and Tencent Credit Reporting Co to prepare for credit reporting operations within a period of six months.
Parent Alibaba has been using its dominant market position in e-commerce to push into the financial services market.
The firm's efforts include a money market fund for consumers, a mobile payment app and a private bank.
Reuters-Global Times
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