Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Nov. 17

China will host the 2016 Group of Twenty (G20) summit in the eastern city of Hangzhou on Sept. 4-5, President Xi Jinping announced here Monday.

Its theme will be "Building an innovative, invigorated, interconnected and inclusive world economy," Xi said while addressing a working lunch during the just-concluded 10th G20 summit in this Turkish resort city. (Turkey-G20)

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VERSAILLES, France -- French President Francois Hollande announced Monday that all the reductions of army personnel will be suspended till 2019.

"I decided there will be no reduction of Defence staff before 2019," Hollande announced in a speech addressed to the two chambers of parliament at Versailles. "Our armies are more and more solicited by the operations abroad that we will continue, for the safety of our compatriots," he added. (France-Army)

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WASHINGTON -- Harvard University said on Monday it had received "unconfirmed" bomb threat which prompted the university to evacuate four buildings on its campus.

"We received an unconfirmed bomb threat affecting the Science Center, as well as Sever, Emerson and Thayer Halls on the Cambridge campus," the university said on its website. (US-Harvard-Threat)

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KHARTOUM -- Dengue fever has killed 118 people and infected 381 others in Sudan's Darfur region since September, the health ministry said Monday.

"According to the epidemiological status until last Friday, 381 cases were reported, including 118 deaths," Sudan's State Minister for Health Somia Akad said. (Sudan-Dengue) Endi