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Xinhua world news summary at 1630 GMT, June 20

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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a Second Amendment challenge to a state law banning many semiautomatic rifles in both New York and Connecticut, a week after Orlando "lone wolf" Omar Mateen used a similar assault rifle killing 49 and wounding 53 in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

The rebuff, marking the second time since December that the Supreme Court has refused to weigh in assault-weapon bans, is seen as part of a trend in which the justices have given at least tacit approval to broad gun-control laws in states and localities that choose to enact them, said local media reports. (U.S.-Supreme Court)

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MOSCOW -- The death toll of an accident Saturday in a children's summer camp in northwest Russia has risen to 13, with one child still missing, a local branch of the Russian Investigative Committee said Monday.

The committee said in a statement that investigators had detained five suspects in the accident, which happened in the Russian republic of Karelia, namely the camp director, a deputy director, two camp counselors and an instructor. (Russia-Camp-Accident)

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WARSAW -- China and Poland agreed on Monday to upgrade their ties to a comprehensive strategic partnership during Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Poland.

Xi and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda made the announcement after they held talks at the Presidential Palace. The two countries established a strategic partnership in 2011. (China-Poland-Ties)

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MANILA -- Seven suspected robbers were killed Monday in a clash with the policemen in northern Philippine province of Pampanga.

Region 3 Police Office said that the armed encounter took place before noon along Angeles-Magalang Road in Mexico town when the suspects riding two separate private vehicles tried to evade a checkpoint. (Philippine-Clash)

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JAKARTA -- Death toll from floods and landslides in Central Java province of western Indonesia has risen to 47 with 15 others missing, a senior official of disaster agency said here on Monday.

The search and rescue operation was challenged by an unstable condition of soils and a potential of rains to happen, said spokesman of the National Disaster Management Agency, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. (Indonesia-Floods-Death Toll) Endi