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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, June 24

Xinhua, June 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

China and the United States will focus on the length and quality of negative lists that outline sectors closed to foreign investment during the next two rounds of negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty (BIT), a senior Chinese official said Tuesday.

"During the latest 19th round of negotiations, the two sides exchanged the initial offers of negative lists," Zhang Xiangchen, deputy China International Trade representative and assistant minister of commerce, said at a press briefing through a translator on the sidelines of the seventh round of China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) starting Tuesday in Washington D.C. (U.S.-China-List)

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WASHINGTON -- China's Vice Premier Liu Yandong said here Tuesday that she hopes the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) can play a role in expanding cooperation with Chinese entities in fields including education, medical and health services.

Liu made the remarks while meeting with IBM President and CEO Ginni Rometty. Liu spoke highly of IBM's role in world business and high technology, urging IBM to continue contributing to the Sino-American relations and a win-win cooperation with Chinese entities. (U.S.-China-Visit) ' - - - -

MEXICO CITY -- At least 16 senior citizens were killed in a fire at a nursing home Tuesday morning in Mexico' s northwestern state of Baja California, local authority confirmed.

There were 45 people living in the nursing home, when the incident occurred early Tuesday morning at 4 a.m. local time (1100 GMT) in a rural area on the outskirts of Mexicali, a city on the Mexico-U.S. border. (Mexico-Fire)

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DAMASCUS -- Three car bombs exploded in a swift succession in Syria's northern city of Hasaka on Tuesday, leaving tens of people wounded and huge property lost, a monitor group and the Syrian official TV reported.

The first explosion targeted a position of the Kurdish Security Forces, Asayish, near the Sinalco roundabout in northern Hasaka, leaving big property losses, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Syria-Bombings)

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JERUSALEM -- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) struck a target in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip overnight following a rocket attack on southern Israel earlier Tuesday night, the IDF confirmed in a statement issued in the early hours of Wednesday.

The statement said a rocket fired from the tiny coastal territory late Tuesday hit an open area adjacent to the Yad Mordechai community, with no injuries reported. (Israel-Gaza-Rocket) Endi