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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Sept. 23

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Chinese President Xi Jinping kicked off his first state visit to the United States in West Coast city Seattle on Tuesday, a landmark trip aimed at building up trust and stepping up cooperation between the world's two biggest economies.

Xi is scheduled to meet government and business leaders, visit school teachers and students, and deliver a speech on China-U.S. relations during his stay in Seattle, a world-known technology and aviation hub. (China-U.S.-Xi)

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ATHENS -- Greece's new Left-led government was announced on Tuesday evening following Sunday's national polls and was due to be sworn in on Wednesday morning.

Euclid Tsakalotos who briefly served as Finance Minister during the first term of the Radical Left SYRIZA-led government this year and held a crucial role in reaching an agreement on the third Greek bailout in the summer, returns to the key post. (Greece-Government)

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BRUSSELS -- The European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Tuesday continued to urge efforts on solving refugee crisis at a budget meeting.

Juncker made the fresh appeal in his address to afternoon's conference "EU Budget focused on Results", while the EU's interior ministers were struggling to iron out difference on relocating another 120,000 refugees. (EC-Refugees)

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BRUSSELS -- European Union (EU) ministers adopted a plan to relocate 120,000 migrants at an emergency meeting on Tuesday.

The Justice and Home Affairs Council said on twitter that EU ministers adopted the plan "by larger majority" of member states. (EU-Refugees) Endi