Xinhua world news summary at 0830 GMT, Jan. 25
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WASHINGTON -- The White House said Wednesday that it will unveil a legislative framework on immigration next week.
The announcement came after lawmakers resumed negotiations on the fate of young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, known as Dreamers.(US-Trump-Immigration)
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TRIPOLI -- The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Wednesday demanded the extradition of Mahmoud al-Werfalli, a senior military commander whom the UN body accused of carrying out illegal executions in the eastern city of Benghazi.
"UNSMIL is alarmed by reports of brutal and outrageous summary executions in Benghazi today. The UN demands the handing over of Mahmoud al-Werfalli immediately to (the International Criminal Court) as it documented at least 5 similar cases, in 2017 alone, carried out or ordered by al-Werfalli," the UNSMIL tweeted.(Libya-UN-Extradition)
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SEOUL -- A women ice hockey team of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) crossed the inter-Korean land border Thursday to South Korea for a joint training with their South Korean counterparts as the two sides agreed to field a unified team during the upcoming Winter Olympics.
The DPRK team, composed of 12 athletes, two supporting members and a coach, crossed the military demarcation line (MDL), which has divided the two sides since the 1950-1953 Korean War ended in armistice, at about 9:20 a.m. local time (0020 GMT), according to Seoul's unification ministry.(S.Korea-DPRK-Ice Hockey)
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VANCOUVER -- Canadian-American filmmaker Paul Johnson on Wednesday promoted his new film "731," which depicts the horrific details of a chemical and biological terror campaign launched by the Imperial Japanese Army during its occupation of China in World War II.
"There is a terrible war crime that took place in modern history," he said. "Most of us have heard about the European holocaust, the Nazi holocaust, Auschwitz and the death camps. While in East Asia, we had a similar thing, but for some reason, the world has forgotten about it."(Canada-Japan-War Crime) Enditem