SOFIA， Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The 68th edition of the Strandja International Boxing Tournament kicked off here in the Sofia hall on Tuesday.


More than 280 athletes from 35 countries and regions， including China， participated in the six-day event， which is the oldest and one of the toughest international boxing tournaments in Europe.


For the tournament， the number of participants grows every year， and now there are representatives from all continents， Krassimir Ininski， President of the Bulgarian Boxing Federation said.


"This year's race is the start of a new Olympic cycle， so we will see not only winners of medals and titles of the major championships， but also a lot of young boxers who have yet to prove themselves，" Ininski said as quoted by the press office of his federation.


The semifinals will be on Saturday and the finals are scheduled for Sunday.


Last year at the 67th edition of "Strandja"， the Chinese boxers won three gold， two silver and one bronze medals.


LONDON Jordan 11 Win Like 96 Pre Order , May 11 (Xinhua) -- Durham Constabulary in north east England on Thursday announced it is to trial an artificial intelligence system (AI) to judge the risk of suspects re-offending.


Police sergeants in custody suites at the force will use AI to help custody decide whether suspects should be sent into the criminal justice system.


The trial of the system, known as Harm Assessment Risk Tool (HART), will be used to classify suspects as either low, medium or high risk of re-offending, contributing to whether they are released or remanded in police custody.


A scientific randomized trial of the forecasts found that only 2 percent of low-risk suspects turned out to be at high-risk of re-offending. But the early trial also found that 12 percent of those forecast as high risk turned out to be low risk


The HART system has been developed by Dr Geoffrey Barnes, a lecturer in evidence based policing at the University of Cambridge. He is working in partnership with Durham Constabulary and the University of Cambridge's Center for Evidence-Based Policing, regarded as world experts in policing.


Barnes told Xinhua Thursday: "There is no question that these techniques will become a core part of policing. Every 999 call will be screened using them. Every domestic violence incident will be assessed using it. In the rest of the justice system, these techniques will be used by prosecutors, corrections officials, and even judges."


The center's director Professor Lawrence Sherman said that it was an important economic requirement for the police to identify when to keep suspects out of the criminal justice system.


"What the algorithm does is allow the police to make evidence-based decisions," said Sherman. "The hypothesis that we want to test will clearly have a result in showing whether the algorithm made the decisions better or worse."


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PYONGYANG, May 2 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday urged Japan to seek a peaceful solution to the crisis on the Korean Peninsula.


Pyongyang also accused Japan of trying to use the ongoing crisis to modify its constitution and legalize dispatch of its troops overseas while instilling life into its recession-stricken economy.


The official Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in an article that the Japanese government has spread the story about the crisis on the Korean Peninsula after the United States staged a preemptive attack on Syria, "as if it had being waiting for it to happen."


"The aim sought by Japan in spreading the story is to step up the constitutional modification which it has so far attempted with the possible crisis on the peninsula as a pretext, and to put spurs to the 'Self-Defense Forces' overseas dispatch," said the article.


"Another aim is to stimulate its reeling economy with the orders of new war supplies from the U.S. after a war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula and thus gain a windfall just as it did during the past Korean War," it said.


The article said since Japan could be the first to be affected by nuclear clouds if an atomic war broke out on the Korean Peninsula, "it has to make due efforts for the peaceful settlement of the Korean Peninsula issue."


"As the first country in the world that suffered A-bomb disaster, Japan knows better than others how terrible the nuclear disaster is," said the newspaper.


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SANTIAGO, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Chile's state-run copper mining company Codelco could begin to mine lithium in northern Chile in six to seven years, Chilean Mining Minister Aurora Williams said on Wednesday.


At the start of the year, Codelco announced it was looking for a strategic partner to help exploit lithium reserves at the Maricunga and Pedernales salt fields in Atacama in north Chile's desert region.


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