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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, March 7

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Death toll of the suicide blast in Pakistan's northwest Charsadda district has risen to 16, local police said.

Sohail Khalid, the District Police Officer, said that another 22 people were injured in the blast of the suicide bombing. (Pakistan-Suicide Bombing)

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PHNOM PENH -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday reiterated the country's support for the China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and Silk Road Fund, saying that they are key sources of capital for infrastructure development.

"We particularly welcome the recent establishment of the AIIB, initiated by China but now involving a strong international partnership of multilateral and bilateral agencies," he said in a speech at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Cambodia Outlook Conference here. (Cambodia-AIIB-China)

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SEOUL -- South Korea and the United States on Monday kicked off their largest-ever annual war games, weeks after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's nuclear test and long-range rocket launch, Combined Forces Command said in a statement.

The drills, code-named Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, are scheduled to run by the end of next month. The Key Resolve command post exercise based on computer simulation will be carried out through March 18, with the Foal Eagle field training exercise lasting until April 30. (S.Korea-U.S.-Drill)

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BAGHDAD -- At least 51 people were killed and some 70 others wounded on Sunday in a suicide truck bomb attack on a security checkpoint in the city of Hilla, capital of Iraq's central Babil province, a local security source told Xinhua.

"The reports said that the casualties from the suicide truck bomb attack in Hilla security checkpoint rose to 51 deaths and 70 injuries," the source said on condition of anonymity. (Iraq-Suicide-Bombing)

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KUALA LUMPUR -- The suspected new debris found in French overseas Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean could be from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 according to the drifting calculation, a Malaysian official said Monday.

Media reported that an object measuring about 40 by 20 centimeters was found by the seashore last week. (Debris-MH370-Reunion Island) Endi