Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Nov. 16

French police identified two nationals who blew themselves up in the coordinated attacks that hit Paris popular venues on Friday night, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said on Sunday.

Identified through finger prints, the two men, aged 20 and 31, were suicide bombers at the Stade de France and at a bar in the 11th district, Molins said in a statement. They were living in Belgium, the statement added. (France-Attacks-Investigation)

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ANTALYA, Turkey -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday urged G20 leaders to focus on growth strategies in their summit in the Turkish seaside resort of Antalya.

He started his speech at the start of the summit's first working session with one minute of silence for the victims died in the recent terrorist attacks in Ankara and Paris. (Turkey-G20)

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WASHINGTON -- The United States and France have agreed on "concrete steps" to further intensify their military cooperation on fighting the Islamic State (IS) in the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, the Pentagon said Sunday.

The agreement was reached during a phone conversation between U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and his French counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian, on Sunday morning, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement. (US-France-Military cooperation)

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DAMASCUS -- French warplanes carried out more than 30 airstrikes against positions of the Islamic State (IS) de facto capital of al-Raqqa in northern Syria late Sunday, a monitor group reported.

The strikes targeted the city of al-Raqqa and its surroundings, amid a state of alert among IS militants in the city, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Syria-France-Air strikes) Endi