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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, April 9

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After more than 11 hours' deliberations, a federal jury in Boston on Wednesday found 21-year- old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a Kyrgyzstan-born U.S. citizen, guilty of all 30 counts related to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing attacks and the following killing of a police officer when on the run.

Because death penalty is involved as possible punishment in 17 counts of the 30 counts, the trial will then move to the next phase where the same jury will weigh whether Tsarnaev should be executed or serve life sentence in prison. (US-Boston Bombing-Trial)

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WASHINGTON -- The United States is considering a 57 million U.S. dollar sale of air-to-ground missiles to Egypt, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency ( DSCA) said Wednesday.

The DSCA said in a statement the U.S. State Department notified Congress on Tuesday of a possible sale to Egypt of AGM-114K/R3 Hellfire II Missiles and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support for an estimated cost of 57 million dollars. (U.S.-Egypt)

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ARISH, Egypt -- At least 11 civilians were killed and six others were injured on Wednesday evening as mortar shells hit two houses at North Sinai province in Egypt, a security source told Xinhua.

"The mortar shells launched by extremists targeted the armed forces south of Sheikh Zuweid city but they mistakenly hit the said two houses," the source added, noting that the civilians killed included a 30-year-old woman and a 2-year-old child and the injured also included women and children. (Egypt-Mortar Shell)

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ISTANBUL -- The Silk Road Initiative has been introduced as the new model of cooperation for the 21th century at the Eurasian Economy Summit in Istanbul on Wednesday.

Ministers and high level figures from 40 countries convened for the 18th Eurasian Economic Summit with a special session on "An Economic Bridge: Silk Road." (Eurasian Economy Summit-Turkey)

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ACCRA -- China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC) has won the bid to construct a new Free Port in Atuabo, 326 km west of the capital.

At the end of the bidding process to select main contractor for Atuabo Free Port (AFP), officials of CHEC and Atuabo Free Ports signed an agreement late March to make the Chinese firm the main engineers for the free port project. (Ghana-China) Endi