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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, April 10

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Representatives of the Syrian government and opposition gathering in Moscow for the second round of peace consultations since Monday have so far failed to reach agreement on measures to improve trust between the conflicting sides.

"A discussion was initiated on improvement measures, but the sides failed to reach any kind of agreement because of lack of time and seriousness of the issue," Vitaly Naumkin, mediator of the talks, said Friday. (Russia-Syria-Situation)

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GAZA -- A Palestinian young man was killed Friday by Israeli troops in clashes near West Bank during a burial of a Palestinian prisoner released recently from an Israeli prison, medics and witnesses said.

The clashes took place as a protest by dozens of Palestinians against the death of Ja'far Awad broke out in the village of Beit Ommar near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, the witnesses said. (Palestinians-Israel-Clash)

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ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan on Friday released a key suspect in the 2008 attacks in the Indian commercial hub of Mumbai, his lawyers said.

A court had earlier ordered the release of Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, a leader of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa group, in December, however, the government had kept him in detention in other cases. (Pakistan-Mumbai Attacks)

- - - - < BERLIN -- A new generation of antibodies can significantly reduce the number of strains of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the blood of infected persons, said a new study published in Wednesday's issue of the journal Nature.

More than 30 years after the discovery of HIV as the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, an international team of scientists with the participation of the University Hospital of Cologne and the German Center for Infection Research has tested a new generation of antibodies on humans for the first time. (Germany-Antibodies-HIV)

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KABUL -- Four civilians were killed and 12 others injured as a suicide car bomb hit Nangarhar's provincial capital Jalalabad city on Friday, a statement of the provincial government sent to media said.

"The terrorists conducted a suicide car bomb against a convoy of foreign forces outside provincial capital Jalalabad at around 10:00 a.m. local time today, leaving four people, all civilians dead and injuring 12 others," the statement said. (Afghanistan-Car Bomb)

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RABAT -- At least 31 people were killed and 9 seriously injured after a bus burst into flames in Morocco early on Friday, local authorities said.

The accident occurred at 7 a.m. local time when the bus hit a truck about 40 kms from Layoune city (1,200 kms south of capital Rabat). (Morocco-Bus Accident) Endi