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ADDIS ABABA Adidas Samba OG Chalk Pearl Hombre España , Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The African Union (AU) and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) have vowed to further strengthen their collaboration towards the development and prosperity of Africa.


This has come at a time when the newly appointed Executive Secretary of ECA, Vera Songwe, met and held talks with the Deputy Chairperson of the AU Commission, Thomas Kwesi Quartey, according to a statement from ECA on Monday.


Marking her second day in office, the new ECA chief on Friday met and held talks with representatives of the AU Commission (AUC), the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation, and with the dean of the diplomatic corps in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa.


Stating that the AU Commission has had great working relations with ECA over the past years, the Deputy Chairperson has expressed that the pan-African bloc is keen towards more collaboration with ECA.


"We look forward to absolute cooperation with you and your team," he has told the ECA chief.


The two sides have discussed education, migration, industrialization, the AU Reform, domestic resource mobilization and other issues pertinent to Africa's transformation.


The ECA Executive Secretary expressed her commitment to carrying on with the good working relations between the two institutions, stating, "having the ECA and AU working closely together makes for a wealth of knowledge and great potential to change the continent."


She has also expressed her desire to see more space for women in the AU agenda.


Songwe, who arrived in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa Wednesday, was appointed earlier this year by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, and took over from former Executive Secretary, Carlos Lopes.


The Cameroonian economist and banking executive is the first woman to ever serve the post, and she officially took office last Thursday.


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CANBERRA， Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Australia will introduce a brand new ten dollar (7.5 US dollar) bank note in September， in what will be the second in a series of new notes featuring tactile "raised dots" to help the vision-impaired.


The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced the currency note on Friday， which will retain its blue coloring but will feature all-new images of native Australian flora and fauna.


The Reserve Bank said the new notes will be introduced in September， 2017， while all existing ten dollar bank notes in circulation will remain "legal tender".


RBA Governor said Philip Lowe said the 10 dollar banknote would also continue to honor two famous Australian writers on both the front and back.


"The ten dollar banknote celebrates two famous Australian writers， Dame Mary Gilmore and AB 'Banjo' Paterson. Their work is recognized in several design elements on the banknote， including images of a pen nib in two of the clear windows and excerpts of their poetry in microprint，" Lowe said in a statement released on Friday.


The RBA said the new note would feature "new security features" to ensure they are kept safe from counterfeiting， while the raised bumps will also return after debuting on the five dollar note released last September.


"These security features are similar to those in the five dollar banknote issued in 2016， such as the top-to-bottom clear window and the patch with a rolling color effect，" the RBA statement said.


"Each banknote in the new series will feature a different species of native Australian wattle and bird. The ten dollar banknote features the Bramble Wattle and the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo."


Australian banknotes are already some of the most secure in the world， as they are made from hard-to-replicate colored polymer.

Policemen stand in front of the police department in Damascus, capital of Syria, on Oct. 11, 2017. Two people were killed and 10 others wounded when three suicide bombers blew themselves up near the police department here on Wednesday, state news agency SANA reported. (XinhuaAmmar Safarjalani)

DAMASCUS, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed and 10 others wounded when three suicide bombers blew themselves up near the police department in Syria's capital Damascus on Wednesday, state news agency SANA reported.


The bombers detonated their explosive belts near the general police department in the Khaled Bin al-Walid street in the Fahammeh area in Damascus, said the Syrian Interior Ministry.


The ministry said two bombers attempted to e