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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Jan. 24

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British Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled an industrial strategy to fit the condition of post-Brexit British economy on Monday as she held her first regional cabinet meeting in the northwest of England.

According to the plan, the objective of this modern industrial strategy is to improve living standards and economic growth by increasing productivity and driving growth across the whole country. (Britain-Industrial Strategy)

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LOS ANGELES -- A powerful winter storm system hit the U.S. state of California, breaking rainfall record, forcing evacuations, creating dangerous conditions on roads and raising concerns about damaging mudslides.

At least four people died, and three were missing after the storm system triggered raging floodwaters over three days, according to local media reports. (US-Storms)

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DAMASCUS -- The first day of the two-day Syrian negotiations in Astana ended on Monday, with government delegation and rebels holding indirect meeting, with expected tension surfacing in that venue.

The delegations of the rebels and the Syrian government were set to meet face to face for the first time in the country's nearly six-year-old conflict, but it wasn't completely that way. (Syria-Astana-Talks)

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WASHINGTON -- The White House said Monday that the newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump is open to conducting joint strikes with Russia on Islamic State (IS) terrorists.

"I think if there's a way that we can combat ISIS (IS) with any country, whether it's Russia or anyone else, and we have a shared national interest in that, sure we'll take it," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said at a briefing. (US-Russia-Syria)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to officially withdraw U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal.

Trump called the move "a great thing for the American workers," local media reported. "We've been talking about this for a long time," Trump said as he signed the order. (US-TPP) Endi