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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, June 16

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African leaders have agreed to start negotiations over setting up a continental free trade zone by 2017, following a deal signed last week to create a large free trade area covering 26 African nations.

The current AU Chairperson and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, on Monday announced that "the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) negotiations open", on the sidelines of the AU summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.

(Africa-FTA)

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ABUJA -- At least 11 people were killed on Monday in a twin suicide bombing in Nigeria's northeastern city of Potiskum, hospital sources told Xinhua.

The attacks are suspected to be carried out by two Boko Haram suicide bombers, with one on the office of a civilian security group set up to defend local people against such attacks and another on a pub, said a senior medical staff who preferred to be anonymous. (Nigeria-Suicide Bomb)

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MILAN -- Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said here on Monday his country will fight at the European level for the relocation of African asylum seekers to other parts of the union amid deepening migrant crisis in Italy.

Alfano said following a meeting with authorities in Milan that the images of around 100 migrants camped on seaside rocks in the town of Ventimiglia in northern Italy as France refused them entry are a "punch in Europe's face." (Italy-Migrant Crisis)

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MIAMI, the United States -- Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush on Monday joined an already crowded Republican presidential field and vowed to fix a "dysfunctional Washington."

Though a Republican establishment candidate, Bush, 62, joined other Republican hopefuls to distance himself from politics in Washington and blamed the U.S. government for problems facing the country. (US-Bush-Candidacy)

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SANAA -- Top al-Qaida leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, security sources told Xinhua on Monday night.

Nasir al-Wuhayshi was killed along with several al-Qaida members in Mukalla city, the provincial capital of Yemen's southeastern Hadramount province on Friday, two security officials based in Sanaa told Xinhua. They asked to remain anonymous as they are not authorized to speak to media. (Yemen-Terror) Endi