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Xinhua world news summary at GMT 0030, June 30

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After the deadly attack at the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan warned in an interview published on Wednesday that the Islamic State (IS) wants to conduct similar attacks in the United States.

"I am worried from the standpoint of an intelligence professional who looks at the capabilities of Daesh ... and their determination to kill as many as people as possible and to carry out attacks abroad," said Brennan in an interview with Yahoo News, referring to an acronym for the group in the Arabic language. (U.S.-Istanbul Attack)

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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN Security Council on Wednesday decided to increase the force level of UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA) to counter grave security situation provoked by armed groups in the country.

In a unanimously adopted resolution, the 15-nation council decided to increase MINUSMA's force level to 13,289 military personnel and 1,920 police personnel. (UN- Peacekeeping)

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PARIS -- Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong met with President of France's Constitutional Council Laurent Fabius here on Wednesday.

Liu was scheduled to attend the third meeting of China-France High-level Mechanism for Dialogue on People-to-People Exchanges in France. The mechanism was jointly launched by China and France in 2014. ( China-France-Ties)

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CAIRO -- The initial data of one of the black boxes of EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month confirmed there was smoke on board, the Egyptian Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee said in a statement Wednesday.

The cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and the flight data recorder (FDR) have recently been sent to Paris for repairs and Cairo received the fixed FDR Tuesday while repairing the CVR is still in progress. (EgyptAir- Black Box-Smoke)

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DAMASCUS -- Aid convoys entered on Wednesday into two besieged rebel-held areas east of the capital Damascus for the first time in four years.

The aid convoys crossed into the besieged areas of Zamalka and Erbeen, carrying aid for 20,000 people, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said. Endi