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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, March 3

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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday signed a decree setting up a commission to push forward a constitutional reform on government decentralization.

"The signing of the document marks the start of a new, very important stage of the constitutional reform," Poroshenko was quoted by his press service as saying. (Ukraine-Decentralization)

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GENEVA -- The Foreign Minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday warned the joint annual military exercises being staged by the United States and South Korea were "provocative" in nature and could possibly "spark off a war".

Ri Su Yong, Minister of Foreign Affairs of DPRK, said here at the United Nations-backed Conference on Disarmament that "the U.S. has intensified nuclear threats against the DPRK rather than diminishing them", according to a video clip of Ri's speech and the English interpretation provided by the United Nations(UN) TV, which provided media outlets in Geneva with selected live programming of UN events. (DPRK-S.Korea)

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ISLAMABAD -- A top Indian diplomat who met Pakistani leaders in Islamabad on Tuesday said that both sides have agreed to "narrow differences."

Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar held talks with his Pakistani counterpart Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, the first high level contact between the two countries in seven months. (Pakistan-India)

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KABUL -- Seven people including two security personnel and the attacker were killed as a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden car on a military convoy in the restive Sangin district of Helmand province on Tuesday, provincial governmental spokesman Omar Zawak said.

"A terrorist riding an explosive-borne car blew it up next to a military convoy in Sangin district at around 2:00 p.m. local time today killing himself and six others including two security personnel and four civilian passersby," Zawak told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Suicide Bombing) Endi