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The programme has cost 140 billion rubles ($4.4 billion) to implement to date.
President Obama said the US welcomed the rise of a peaceful China.
An official blamed the delay on new safety requirements and equipment adaptations.
Austria said it will withdraw its UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights following the battles in Syria.
The rupee weakened below 57 to the dollar on Friday to approach a record low hit about a year ago.
President Obama will be on a week-long visit to the African continent from June 26.
ArcelorMittal will invest $400 million in the Americas this year, according to the head of its Americas unit.
Forty four per cent of Americans say China is a friendly nation, according to the Gallup poll.
China is on track to achieve the UN's Millennium Development Goal of reducing hunger by 50 per cent by 2015.
