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Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, Jan. 12

Xinhua, January 13, 2015 Adjust font size:

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi proposed here on Monday China's four-point initiative to promote South Sudan's peace process.

Wang raised the initiative at the "special consultation of Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD)" with the conflicting parties of South Sudan. (S.Sudan-China-Politics)

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TIKRIT, Iraq -- Eight militiamen and soldiers were killed and some 16 others wounded on Monday as a suicide car bomber struck a building housing Shiite militiamen in the country's northern central province of Salahudin, a provincial security source said. (Iraq-Suicide-Bombing)

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ANKARA -- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday that the woman suspected of links to the recent Paris terror attacks entered Syria from Turkey on Jan. 8.

Hayat Boumeddiene, wife of Amedy Coulibaly, who killed four hostages at a supermarket in Paris on Friday, arrived in Turkey from Madrid on Jan. 2 before leaving to Syria on Jan. 8, the minister was quoted by the state-run Anadolu Agency as saying. (Turkey-France-Suspect)

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DAMASCUS -- The Syrian Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Turkey's statement about the entry through Turkey into Syria of a suspected female accomplice of extremist militants behind the recent Paris attacks indicates Ankara's involvement in facilitating the flow of terrorists into the conflict-stricken country, state news agency SANA reported.

The Syrian statement came shortly after Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said early Monday that the 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene, suspected of links to the recent Paris terror attacks, entered Syria from Turkey on Jan. 8. (Syria-Turkey) Endit