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Xinhua World News Summary at 1530 GMT, April 1

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed two executive orders in order to ramp up trade enforcement.

In one of them, Trump required the commerce secretary and the U.S. trade representative to prepare a report within 90 days, assessing the practices of U.S. trading partners contributing to the 500 billion U.S. dollars trade deficit the United States had in 2016 on a country-by-country and product-by-product basis. (U.S.-Trade Enforcement)

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LONDON -- Queen Elizabeth has given her permission for the body of Houses of Parliament police officer Keith Palmer to lie in the Palace of Westminster prior to his funeral, it was announced Saturday.

Police constable Palmer, aged 48, was stabbed and killed during last week's attack on the British parliament by terrorist Khalid Masood. Masood was shot and killed by armed officers as they ran to the aid of Palmer. (Britain-Police-terrorist attack)

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JAKARTA -- At least one person was killed and 26 others went missing as landslides struck East Java province in western Indonesia on Saturday, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of the national disaster management agency, said.

The landslides triggered by heavy downpours occurred in Banaran village of Ponorogo district, hitting 25 to 30 houses, Sutopo said. (Indonesia-Landslides)

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PYONGYANG -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday demanded the immediate repatriation of 12 girls, who it said were kidnapped one year ago by South Korea's intelligence service abroad.

The Korean Central News Agency quoted a spokesman for the Central Committee of the DPRK Red Cross Society as saying in a statement that "mounting high is the wrath of the parents of the abductees and indignation of other Koreans after one year since they were taken to South Korea by the puppet gangsters," in reference to the South Korean authorities. (DPRK-South Korea-"Kidnapped" Girls)

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TOKYO -- Representatives of "comfort women" museums from Japan, South Korea, China, the Philippines and the United States convened their first conference here on Saturday, urging the Japanese government to reflect upon history.

"The Japanese government, after so many years, still refuses to admit and reflect upon the 'comfort women' issue. We should enhance international cooperation and demand the Japanese government to apologize and make compensations," said Eriko Ikeda, chairwoman of Women's Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM), Japan's only museum focused on wartime sexual violence against women. (Japan-Comfort Women) Endi