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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Feb. 7

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A tripartite meeting on the Ukraine crisis, involving Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, ended here at midnight, a Kremlin spokesman said on Saturday.

The French and German leaders have left the Kremlin and were heading for the airport, spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

The three leaders ended the nearly five hours of talks without announcing the outcome of their talks. (Hollande-Merkel-Putin)

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PYONGYANG -- Top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un recently watched the test firing of a "newly developed anti-ship rocket," the official KCNA news agency reported Saturday.

The test firing of the "ultra-precision anti-ship rocket," which was designed to precisely hit enemy warships, proved that " the powers of the rocket boat and the anti-ship rocket's hit rate reached the level of designed tactical and engineering data," the KCNA said. (DPRK-Leader-Rocket)

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STOCKHOLM -- A hot-water pipe burst Friday night in the southern Swedish town of Lund, causing chaos as a thick fog formed and a driver lost control of a bus, hitting four people.

One person has died and several received burns. (Sweden-Accident)

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PARIS -- French President Francois Hollande on Friday confirmed his participation in the "national unity" rally scheduled in Paris on Sunday, alongside his main European partners, the country's main politicians and civil society figures.(France-Rally)

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DAMASCUS -- The Islamic State (IS) militant group claimed on Friday that an American female hostage was killed by Jordanian airstrikes against IS positions in Syria's northern province of al-Raqqa, a monitoring group reported.

Citing a report posted on Twitter by the IS, the SITE monitoring group said that Kayla Jean Mueller was killed when she was buried beneath the rubble of a building, which had collapsed as a result of a Jordanian airstrikes against IS in al-Raqqa. (IS-Syria) Endi