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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Jan. 18

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Eurotunnel's passenger and freight services were expected partly to resume on Saturday night after a fire on a freight train led to the closure of the Channel Tunnel.

Eurotunnel's "Le Shuttle" service announced that a tunnel inspection was underway. It also confirmed that the earlier fire on a freight train in the Channel Tunnel "was quickly brought under control by the emergency services." (Britain-Eurotunnel-Fire)

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WASHINGTON -- A person was killed and two others injured when a gunman opened fire at a mall in central Florida's Melbourne on Saturday morning, U.S. media reported.

The shooting took place at 9:40 a.m. EST (1440 GMT) at the Melbourne Square mall's food court and the gunman shot himself after firing five or six shots, local reports quoted witnesses as saying. (US-Shooting)

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DAMASCUS -- A Syrian opposition party agreed on Saturday to attend the Russia-mediated preliminary and consultative conference to settle the Syrian crisis.

The meeting, to be held at the end of this month, aims to help the Syrian government and opposition parties restore political talks to end the long-running conflict. (Syria-Talks)

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ATHENS -- Greek police has detained four suspects during an ongoing investigation for links to the jihadist cell which was planning a terrorist attack in Belgium this week, Greek media reported on Saturday.

One of the suspects looks like the cell's "mastermind" Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the 27-year-old Belgian of Moroccan origin who is believed to have funded the jihadists killed during the counter-terror raid in Verviers on Thursday evening, Greek news portal in.gr wrote, citing police sources. (Greece-Terrorist Suspects)

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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi security forces killed 21 Islamic State (IS) militants in security operations in the provinces of Salahuddin and Anbar, defense ministry said on Saturday.

The security forces launched a number of military operations in the areas to the north and south of province's capital of Tikrit, killing 15 IS militants and destroyed vehicles carrying machine guns belonged to the militants, the ministry said in a statement. (Iraq-IS Militants) Endi