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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Sept. 20

Xinhua, September 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

China's annual total donation to UN agencies on development in 2020 will be 100 million U.S. dollars more compared to the amount in 2015, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced here on Monday.

Li made the remarks when he chaired a roundtable on the Sustainable Development Goals in the United Nations.

He also announced that China's donation to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will reach 18 million U.S. dollars in next three years. (UN-China-Donation)

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DAMASCUS -- At least 32 people were killed and many more wounded in the northern province of Aleppo on Monday, in the first hours after a U.S.-Russian truce expired, a monitor group reported.

Over 40 airstrikes were carried against rebel-held areas in Aleppo and its countryside Monday, just hours after a week-long ceasefire expired without any extension. (Syria-Truce-Victim)

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SEOUL -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has successfully conducted a ground test of a new rocket engine, Yonhap quoted DPRK's state-run news agency as reporting on Tuesday.

DPRK leader Kim Jong-un visited the Sohae Space Center in the North's western region to guide the test of "a new type high-power engine of a carrier rocket for the geo-stationary satellite," Yonhap quoted the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) as saying. (DPRK-Rocket-Test)

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NAIROBI -- Kenyan police on Monday arrested another woman over alleged links to the attack by three women at a police station in the port city of Mombasa on Sept. 11.

Detectives from anti-terrorism police and paramilitary police raided the house of the suspect in the port city of Mombasa in the evening.

Three female attackers were killed by police when they stormed the Mombasa Central Police Station last Sunday. One woman threw a petrol bomb and another stabbed two officers with a knife in the attack. (Kenya-Attack-Suspect)

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COPENHAGEN -- Two Danish F-16 fighter jets had taken part in a U.S.-led coalition attack that killed scores of Syrian soldiers, the Danish military has confirmed.

In a statement released on late Sunday night, Defence Command Denmark, the supreme military command authority of the Danish armed forces, said Danish fighter jets were part of the mission. (Denmark-Syria-Attack) Endi