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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, April 1

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The transfer of Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam to France could take place "very soon", the Belgian broadcaster RTBF reported on Thursday, citing a collaborator of his lawyer Cedric Moisse.

According to the RTBF, the agreement to transfer Salah Abdeslam to France has been notified in an official report. An order for the delivery will be officially released on Friday, but it is already enforceable. (Belgium-Paris Attacks Suspect)

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WASHINGTON -- A Virginia state trooper and two civilians were injured and a gunman was dead Thursday during an active shooter situation at a bus station in the U.S. state of Virginia, local media outlet reported.

The shooting happened at the Greyhound station on North Boulevard in Richmond, capital of Virginia, where a counter-drug training mission for state police was being conducted, according to NBC News. (U.S.-Shooting)

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ANKARA -- Death toll has risen to seven police officers in a car bomb attack at an armored police vehicle in southeastern Turkey on Thursday, the semi-official Anadolu News Agency reported.

Moreover, 27 others including 13 policemen were wounded in the attack near a bus terminal in the city of Diyarbakir, according to the agency. (Turkey-Blast)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least five people were killed on Thursday in a roadside bomb blast in Pakistan's northwest district of Lakki Marwat, officials said.

District police officer Ali Akbar told Xinhua that the incident took place when a blast hit a car near the Kot Kashmir area of the district in the country's Northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing all five people on aboard. (Pakistan-Bomb blast) Endi