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Xinhua world news summary at 0400 GMT, Spt. 11

Xinhua, September 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday held a telephone conversation with his French counterpart, Jean-Marc Ayrault, to discuss bilateral relations and the issue of the Korean Peninsula.

During the talks, Wang said China is willing to make concerted efforts with France to promote the two countries' comprehensive strategic partnership toward the achievement of new development and add new connotations to this relationship. (DPRK-China-France)

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PYONGYANG -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) called on its people to engage in a rehabilitation campaign in wake of strong storms, the official news agency KCNA reported Sunday.

The ruling Workers' Party of Korea has made it a top priority to rebuild the disaster-hit cities and counties, in particular in North Hamgyong Province in the northeast, where tens of thousands of houses and public buildings collapsed and railways and roads were destroyed, said the KCNA. (DPRK-Campaign)

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JALALABAD, Afghanistan) -- A prominent Afghan police general was killed in a bomb attack in the country's eastern province of Nangarhar on Sunday, a source said.

Brigadier General Zarawar Zahid, police chief of Nangarhar province, was killed following a roadside bomb attack in Hisarak district, Nangarhar on Sunday evening, the source told Xinhua anonymously. (Afghanistan-Police)

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KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian police have confirmed that the three crew members of a fishing trawler who were kidnapped in waters off Malaysia's Sabah on Saturday are Filipinos, according to a report from Bernama, Malaysia's state news agency.

A Sunday report from Bernama quoted Sabah police chief Abdul Rashid Harun as saying that the three Filipinos were taken by a group of seven heavily-armed men during a fishing trip with 13 other crew members on Saturday night. (Philippines-Kidnapings-Malaysia)

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LONDON -- British police on Sunday made "a number of arrests" after breaking into a Sikh temple in the town of Leamington Spa where a sword-wielding gang of men stormed hours ago.

Pictures aired by local media showed police have arrested some members of the gang consisting of 20 to 30 men in the town, where a marriage between a Sikh and non-Sikh was due to take place. ( UK-Town-Gang) Endi