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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Jan. 24

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NATO will establish international headquarters in Lithuania, together with five other Eastern and Central European countries, the Lithuanian ministry of defence announced in a statement released on Friday.

"We have managed to achieve what we have been aiming at: the NATO Military Committee agreed to establish multinational headquarters in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria," Chief of Defence of Lithuania, Major General Jonas Vytautas Zukas, was quoted as saying by local media after returning from a NATO Military Committee meeting in Brussels. (Lithuania-NATO-Lithuania headquarters)

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UNITED NATIONS -- A UN adviser on Yemen on Friday met in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, with Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and Houthi representatives to promote inclusive consultations, the UN spokesperson's office said here.

In a note to the media, the office confirmed that the Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on Yemen Jamal Benomar met with President Hadi, Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and Houthi representatives on Friday.(UN-Yemen-Meeting)

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CAIRO -- A 17-year-old girl was shot dead on Friday in clashes during protests supporting ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt's Alexandria coastal province, about 220 km north of the capital Cairo, official MENA news agency reported.

"Sondos Reda Abu Bakr, a 17-year-old girl, died in the hospital after being injured during the clashes in Miami neighborhood in Alexandria," MENA quoted a Health Ministry source in Alexandria as saying.(Egypt-Brotherhood-Protest)

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MAPUTO -- Nearly 40,000 people affected by floods in the central province of Zambezia are living in accommodation centers set up by the government, according to the country's State Administration and Public Service Minister, Carmelita Namachulua on Friday.

Namachulua said that the government has set up 44 centers to accommodate the more than 200,000 people who lost their homes and those who were rescued from flood-prone areas.(Mozambique-Flood) Endi