Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Nov. 29

BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping told his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, in a telephone conversation late Wednesday that denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, maintaining international nuclear-nonproliferation regime, and preserving peace and stability in Northeast Asia are China's unswerving goal.

He said China would like to keep up communications with the United States and all other related parties, and jointly push the nuclear issue towards the direction of peaceful settlement via dialogues and negotiations.(China-US-Xi-Trump-Phone)

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JERUSALEM -- Israeli security forces demolished Wednesday an illegally-built carpentry workshop in a Jewish outpost in the West Bank, as dozens of settlers were rallying the site to protest the demolition.

Army soldiers and paramilitary Border Police officers began the eviction early on Wednesday morning in the outpost of Netiv Ha'avot, south of Jerusalem. By noon, a military statement said the demolition was completed successfully.(Israel-West Bank-Demolition)

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BUDAPEST -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Hungarian Parliament Speaker Laszlo Kover agreed here Tuesday that China and Hungary will further expand people-to-people exchanges.

China is willing to work with Hungary to consolidate the two countries' traditional friendship and expand cooperation in various fields so as to let China-Hungary ties bear more fruits that will benefit the two peoples, Li said during his meeting with Kover.(Hungary-China-Li-Ties)

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CAIRO -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ordered the army's chief of staff on Wednesday to restore security and stability in the restive part of the Sinai Peninsula within three months.

"I bear you responsible before all the Egyptian people to restore security and stability in Sinai within three months," Sisi spoke directly to Chief of Staff Mohamed Farid Hegazy while delivering a speech aired on the Egyptian state TV.(Egypt-Sisi-Army-Sinai)

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LOS ANGELES -- U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced Tuesday that its next mission to Mars in 2020 will boast a souped-up rover vehicle to seek signs of ancient microbial life on the inhospitable red planet.

The new vehicle, which resembles its predecessor the 2012 Curiosity Rover, would launch in July or August 2020, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which manages the mission for the agency. (US-NASA-Mars) Enditem