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Xinhua world news summary at 0045 GMT, April 26

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A federal judge ruled Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump can not coerce "sanctuary cities" to cooperate with immigration officers by withdrawing federal funds.

The temporary ruling followed a hearing on April 14 over San Francisco and Santa Clara county's lawsuit over the executive order signed by Trump on January 25.

The executive order, issued five days after the president took office, directed the administration's attorney general and homeland security secretary to make sure that sanctuary jurisdictions " are not eligible to receive federal grants, except as deemed necessary for law enforcement purposes."(US-Ruling-Trump)

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JERUSALEM -- Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday canceled a meeting with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel over the visiting official's plan to meet with groups critical of Israel's action in the West Bank, local media reported.

A spokesman with the Prime Minister's Office confirmed the meeting, originally scheduled to 17:00, would not take place.

Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper reported that after the cancellation Gabriel refused to take a phone call from Netanyahu. The prime minister wanted to speak with the foreign minister to personally explain why he had reservations regarding the meeting with Breaking The Silence and B'Tselem, Ha'aretz reported.(Israel-Germany)

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ANKARA -- Around 70 militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its Syrian offshoot the People's Protection Units (YPG) have been killed in Iraq and Syria by Turkish airstrike, military sources said Tuesday.

According to local media, Turkish warplanes conducted heavy air raids against PKK and YPG targets in Iraq's Sinjar and northern Syria, in which shelters, arsenals and communication centers belonging to the militants were destroyed.

The military operations were launched on previously identified targets in the region to prevent PKK from smuggling weapons and explosives into Turkey for future attacks, the military statement said.(Turkey-Syria-Iraq) Endi