TOKYO, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks opened higher Friday as the market mood was lifted by a strong performance on Wall Street overnight, with a comparatively weak yen against the U.S. dollar also adding support and lifting exporter-linked shares.
As of 9:15 a.m, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average added 103.33 points, or 0.54 percent, from Thursday to 19,166.55.
The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, meanwhile, gained 9.88 points, or 0.65 percent, to 1,537.47.
Issues that advanced notably at the start of play comprised insurance, bank and rubber product-linked stocks.
RIO DE JANEIRO Cleveland Cavaliers Throwback Jersey , Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's second largest city, plans to launch an electric-vehicle sharing service with input from Chinese automaker BYD, local media reported on Tuesday.
BYD is one of five firms that together make up PPP Radar, the consortium that has won the bid to develop the program, according to O Estado de Sao Paulo daily.
BYD, together with DirijaJa Atlanta Hawks Throwback Jersey , IDOM, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Albino Advogados Associados, has six months to present their project, the daily said.
"The city of Rio de Janeiro should have a fleet of electric vehicles as of next year ... for carsharing," the daily said, adding that the program will offer some 300 cars initially.
Carsharing, which operates in cities worldwide Boston Celtics Throwback Jersey , allows drivers to rent a vehicle by the hour, a convenience for those who don't need a car full time or want to try a different model from the one they have.
BYD, which unveiled the world's first battery-powered coach in January, has other projects under way in Brazil.
In July, the company will launch a battery plant for electric vehicles in Campinas, Sao Paulo state, said the daily. The plant will also produce solar panels and assemble buses.
BYD plans to invest 400 million U.S. dollars in Brazil by 2018.
BAGHDAD Brooklyn Nets Throwback Jersey , Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Up to 58 people were killed in separate bomb attacks and airstrikes in central and northern Iraq on Tuesday, security sources said.
In Iraq's northern central province of Salahudin, a bomb exploded near a group of young men who were gathered at a recruitment center at a military base near the town Amerli, some 70 km east of the provincial capital Tikrit.
The blast killed three recruits and wounded five others, a provincial security source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The recruits were gathering to sign up to join government-backed Shiite paramilitary groups, known as al-Hashed al-Shaabi or Popular Mobilization, the source said.
Also in the province Charlotte Hornets Throwback Jersey , a roadside bomb went off near a mosque in the town of Tuz-Khurmato, some 90 km east of Tikrit, killing two people and wounding four others, the source added.
Salahudin is a Sunni-dominated province, and its capital Tikrit, some 170 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, is the hometown to former President Saddam Hussein.
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In the volatile province of Anbar, 23 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed late on Monday night when the security forces blew up a tunnel dug by the IS militants to reach to the fortified provincial government compound in the capital city of Ramadi, some 110 km west of Baghdad, a provincial security source told Xinhua.
The troops earlier discovered the 700-meter tunnel in the al-Houz district Authentic Miami Heat Jersey , which is adjacent to the government compound and planted bombs in it, waiting for the extremist militants to use it and then to blow it up, the source said.
Separately, Iraqi Sukhoi jet fighters conducted airstrikes targeting the positions of the IS militants in and near the town of Garma, just east of the militant-seized city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, a provincial security source said.
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Also in the province, police forces clashed with the IS militants near the battlefield town of al-Baghdadi, some 200 km northwest of Baghdad, and managed to seize a water supply facility after killing at least 15 extremist militants, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The IS group has seized around 80 percent of Iraq's largest province Anbar and tried to advance toward Baghdad, but several counter attacks by security forces and Shiite militias have pushed them back from western areas of the capital.
The security situation in Iraq has drastically deteriorated since June 10 last year Authentic Utah Jazz Jersey , when bloody clashes broke out between Iraqi security forces and the IS, an al-Qaida offshoot.
The IS has taken control of the country's northern province of Nineveh, and then seized swathes of territories after Iraqi security forces abandoned their posts in other predominantly Sunni provinces.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to the US will stabilize bilateral ties, sending friendly signals to US business leaders and politicians against a backdrop of rising tensions amid distrust, analysts said Wednesday.
Xi is scheduled to make his first State visit to the US late September at the invitation of his counterpart, US President Barack Obama.
No official schedule has been released by the foreign ministry. However, sources with knowledge of the matter suggest that Xi will begin with a series of public engagements in Seattle on September 22 Authentic Toronto Raptors Jersey , before heading to Washington, DC and concluding with a speech at the United Nations General Assembly on September 28, the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday.