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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, March 9

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Experts from the Visegrad Four countries will meet in Slovakia between April 14 to 16 to proceed in preparing a joint European Union V4 Battle Group, local media reported on Sunday.

Approximately 60 representatives from the V4 countries, referring to four central European countries including Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary, will gather here for the eighth planning conference, according to news agency TASR. (Slovakia-V4-Defence)

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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Three children were killed Saturday night when their house where they were sleeping was buried in a landslide caused by strong rains, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, local Fire Brigade informed on Sunday.

The landslide occurred on Saturday night in Santana do Parnaiba, in the metropolitan region of the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo (southeast), when the three brothers aged between 7 and 13 were sleeping with their mother at home. (Brazil-Landslide)

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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN Security Council on Sunday condemned "in the strongest terms" a terrorist attack against a UN peacekeeping camp in Mali, calling upon the Malian government to conduct a swift investigation in order to bring the perpetrators to justice.

The members of the Security Council "condemned in the strongest terms the coordinated attacks against" a United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) camp in Kidal, Mali, earlier on Sunday, resulting in the death of two children and of one Chadian peacekeeper of MINUSMA, and many injured, said a statement issued by the 15-nation council to the press here. (UN-Mali Attack)

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JERUSALEM -- The center-left Zionist Union, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main political rival in the March 17 elections, presented Sunday its platform with an emphasis on achieving diplomatic settlement with the Palestinians.

The platform, launched at a press conference in Tel Aviv, presents two main goals: ending Israel's diplomatic isolation and curbing the rise of the housing prices.

The Zionist Union, a coalition of Isaac Herzog's Labor party and former Justice Minister Tzipi Livni's HaTnua party, said it will present a peace initiative to the Arab League in order to restart the peace talks, which were ceased in 2013. (Israel-Palestine) Endi