一 | BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Court records filed Friday indicate Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance, intends to plead guilty in a federal case accusing him of trying to extort money from the missing teen’s mother.A federal judge set an Oct. 18 plea and sentencing hearing for van der Sloot in Birmingham, Alabama. He had previously entered a plea of not guilty in the case. Emails sent to van der Sloot's attorney and a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors were not immediately returned Friday eveningVan der Sloot was extradited to Alabama from Peru, where he’s serving a 28-year sentence after confessing to killing a Peruvian woman in 2010. Holloway went missing during a high school graduation trip with classmates to Aruba. The Alabama teen was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot, a student at an international school on the island. The mysterious disappearance sparked years of news coverage and countless true-crime podcasts. Van der Sloot was identified as a main suspect and was detained for questioning but no charges were filed in the case.A judge declared Holloway dead but her body has never been found.U.S. prosecutors say that in 2010, van der Sloot sought money from Beth Holloway to disclose the location of her daughter's body. A grand jury indicted him that year.。 At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein will pay a state visit to China from August 18 to 24, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday. This visit marks King Abdullah II's ninth visit to China since his accession to the throne, said foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian at a regular press briefing on the same day. Lin said that during the visit, President Xi will hold talks with King Abdullah II, exchanging their opinions on bilateral relations and international and regional issues of mutual interest. Premier Li Qiang and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Zhao Leji will meet with him respectively, Lin added. King Abdullah II will also visit Shanghai and Shenzhen, Lin said. Noting China and Jordan enjoy traditional friendship, Lin said under the strategic guidance of President Xi and King Abdullah II, China-Jordan relations have maintained steady growth in recent years, with fruitful cooperation across many fields and deepening friendly exchanges between the two countries. China will work with Jordan to take this visit as an opportunity to jointly enhance political mutual trust, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, promote people-to-people exchanges and deepen collaboration on multilateral occasions, to take the bilateral strategic partnership to a new height and make positive contributions to regional peace, stability, and development, said the spokesperson. 。
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