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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, April 9

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Chile's Foreign Minister, Heraldo Munoz, highlighted on Saturday the "concrete steps" of the integration "roadmap" approved in Buenos Aires between regional trade blocs the Pacific Alliance and Southern Common Market (Mercosur).

Speaking from Buenos Aires, Munoz commented that the roadmap gives a "qualitative jump" forward from the last summit between both blocs in 2014 which produced "no major results." (Chile-Integration-South America)

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DAMASCUS -- At least 15 civilians were killed on Saturday by U.S.-led airstrikes, which targeted areas in the countryside of the northern province of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State (IS) group, a monitor group reported.

Four children and a woman were among those killed by the airstrikes that targeted the town of Haideh in the western countryside of Raqqa, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Syria-Raqqa)

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OSLO -- Norwegian police has blocked a large area in central Oslo and detained one suspect on Saturday night after finding a bomb-like object, police said in a tweet.

The man who has the status of a suspect has been arrested and taken in for questioning after the subject was found in Gronland in Oslo, police told public broadcaster NRK. (Norway-Police)

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DAMASCUS -- A suicide bombing rocked a refugee camp inside the Syrian territories near the Jordanian borders on Saturday, activities said.

The explosion, believed to have been caused by a car bomb, rattled the Rukban camp located in the far Syrian desert on the borders with Jordan, leaving many people wounded, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Syria-Suicide Bombing)

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WASHINGTON -- A mall shooting has killed one person and injured two in the U.S. southern State of Florida, U.S. media reported Saturday.

The shooter, who killed himself after firing on two others, was identified by witnesses as Abeku Wilson, a fitness trainer at the Coral Gables gym where he carried out the shooting. (US-Shooting) Endit