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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Jan. 25

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DAVOS, Switzerland -- France and Germany on Wednesday unanimously defended their collective stance on making a stronger Europe, amid fears that more idea divisions would emerge between the two sides of the Atlantic as U.S. President Donald Trump is set to make his Davos debut.

"France is back. France is back at the core of Europe, because we will never have any French success without a European success," said French President Emannual Macron in a keynote speech during this years' World Economic Forum. (Davos-Macron)

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WASHINGTON -- SpaceX's new heavy-lift rocket Falcon Heavy completed its static firing test at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday after multiple delays.

The Falcon Heavy rocket ignited all 27 engines of its first-stage at about 12:30 p.m. American Eastern Standard Time for about 10 seconds, spewing violent exhaust and steam, a video on SpaceX's official twitter showed. (Science-SpaceX)

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BRASILIA -- Brazil's progressive Workers' Party (PT) said on Wednesday it will register ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as its presidential candidate despite a federal court ruling that upheld his corruption conviction.

The announcement came just after a three-judge panel voted unanimously to ratify Lula's conviction for accepting bribes and to extend his original sentence from nine and a half years in prison to 12 years and a month. (Brazil-Elections)

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BAGHDAD -- Two paramilitary Sunni tribal fighters were killed and five others wounded Wednesday in a suicide bomb attack in Hawijah area in Iraq's Kirkuk province, a police source said.

The attack took place in the evening when a group of Hawijah tribal fighters carried out a search campaign looking for remnants of Islamic State (IS) militants in houses at the edge of Abbasi area west of the town of Hawijah, which located some 230 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the source said on condition of anonymity. (Iraq-Kirkuk)

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Treasury on Wednesday issued new sanctions on entities and individuals, allegedly related to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Treasury said in a statement that it slapped sanctions on nine entities, 16 individuals and six vessels in response to the DPRK's alleged "ongoing development of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and continued violations of United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs)." (U.S.-DPRK-Sanctions) Enditem

 

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