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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Feb. 3

Xinhua, February 3, 2017 Adjust font size:

T20 Africa Conference, the meeting for the G20 think tanks and African countries, ended on Friday in Johannesburg with a commitment to accelerate cooperation between the G20 and Africa.

The three-day conference aimed to chart a course for the future cooperation between Africa and the G20. (T20-Africa-Conference)

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GENEVA -- The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned Friday that 700,000 more people would be in need of assistance this year compared with 2016 as a result of protracted fighting in east Ukraine.

The increase would raise the total number of people in need of aid to 3.8 million, according to the office. (OCHA-Ukraine-Assistance)

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Chancellor Nicholas Dirks of the University of California, Berkeley, tried Thursday to distance the public university from violence during a protest the previous evening that turned a radical far-right political figure away from making a speech on campus.

Referring to the cancellation of an event scheduled for Wednesday evening for Milo Yiannopulos, an editor for the conservative website Breitbart in the wake of protest, Dirks stated that "UC Berkeley condemns in the strongest possible terms the actions of individuals who invaded the campus, infiltrated a crowd of peaceful students and used violent tactics to close down the event." (California-University-Violence)

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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan -- The governor of Afghanistan's southern Helmand province Hayatullah Hayat has vowed to foil the designs of Taliban insurgents to overrun the troubled and poppy growing province.

"The malicious designs of enemies in Helmand province would be foiled and the enemies would face humiliating defeat here," governor Hayat told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Taliban)

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ANKARA -- Relations between Turkey and Greece soured again after a Greek court denied the extradition of eight Turkish soldiers as suspects of failed July 15 coup attempt.

After two decades, Kardak islet in Aegean Sea, the last serious crisis that almost brought Ankara and Athens on the brink of a war due to the disputed sovereignty of the island, has again become a scene of tension between two neighbors. (Turkey-Greece-Relationship) Endi