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Xinhua China-related world news summary at 1000 GMT, July 30

Xinhua, July 30, 2016 Adjust font size:

As part of 2016's Year of China-Latin America Cultural Exchange, an exhibit showcasing contemporary Chinese art has opened in Panama City.

"Color Symbiosis" opened Wednesday night at the city's Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), featuring a selection of 50 works of art by some 20 Chinese artists working in a wide range of media, from sculpture to video installations, and themes, from traditional landscape paintings to abstraction. (Panama-China-Exhibit)

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UNITED NATIONS -- Burundi's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity must be respected, said a Chinese envoy here on Friday, regarding plans by the United Nations to send police to the African country.

Liu Jieyi, China's permanent representative to the UN, made the appeal at a Security Council meeting, where a resolution was approved to send UN police to Burundi to monitor the country's security situation. (UN-Burundi-UN Police Deployment)

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LOME -- Chinese soldiers will assist Western African countries in securing navigational safety in the Gulf of Guinea at a time when the region is facing an increasing threat from pirates, a visiting Chinese major general said here Thursday.

China will join the international anti-piracy effort in the Gulf of Guinea by helping littoral states in the region build necessary infrastructure, said Qian Lihua, former head of the foreign affairs office of China's Ministry of National Defence. (China-Africa-Piracy)

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GAZA -- At an amusement park in Gaza city, 12-year-old girl Allaa' Izedin and her friends were so delighted to grab their seats in a little train that was made in China and imported to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

Laughter of Izedin and her friends was heard as the train drove on a small railway into a big hall. The recently built amusement park in Gaza city brings fun to children in the Gaza Strip that has been under a tight Israeli blockade since Hamas violent takeover of the coastal enclave in the summer of 2007. (Gaza-China-Game) Endi