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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, April 15

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, held a strategic communication via phone Friday on bilateral ties, the situation in Syria and the Korean Peninsula.

The two foreign ministers pledged to actively implement the consensus reached by the two countries' heads of state on the development of China-Russia relations and to prepare for a series of high-level exchanges in the near future. (China-Russia-Syria)

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DAR ES SALAAM -- Tanzanian President John Magufuli on Friday mourned eight young policemen killed by gunmen on Thursday night, saying it was a huge loss to the East African nation.

The eight policemen were shot dead by an unknown group of gunmen at Jaribu Mpakani in Coast region while they were returning from patrols. The gunmen also made away with unspecified number of firearms from the slain policemen. (Tanzania-Policemen-Gunmen)

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BERLIN -- Three suspects were arrested in Germany's northwestern state of Lower Saxony for plotting "serious state-threatening violence", Focus Online reported on Friday.

The three suspects were a 27-year-old Turkish, an Afghan of the same age, and a 25-year-old German. They were reportedly plotting some bomb attacks on policemen or soldiers. Special police task force were deployed in Northeim to make the capture operation. (Germany-Suspects-Lower Saxony)

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ABUJA -- Thirty-three people have died in a state in central Nigeria following the outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis in parts of the west African country, a public health official said on Friday.

Nine among the victims were killed by Type C, the latest strain of meningitis in the country while the other 24 died of Type A and B of the same disease, according to Yahaya Na'uzo, director of Primary Health Care in Niger State. (Nigeria-Meningitis-Disease)

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GAZA -- Hundreds of Hamas movement supporters and leaders rallied on Friday afternoon against what they termed as "tight security measures" by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas against the Gaza Strip.

Protests were organized in several areas in the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave, including the southern city of Khan Younis. Hamas supporters chanted slogans against Abbas and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). (Hamas-Gaza-Protest)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Treasury Department on Friday declared that no major trading partner of the U.S., including China, met the standard of manipulating its currency, while six economies were listed on its Monitoring List as their foreign exchange polices bear close monitoring.

In its Semi-Annual Report to Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies, the Treasury Department concluded that no major trading partner of the United States, including China, has manipulated their currencies over the past six months to keep them undervalued.

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