Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, March 6

ROME -- Both Italy's euroskeptic, populist Five Star Movement (M5S) and anti-immigrant League party on Monday claimed the mandate to form the next government, the parties' leaders announced on Monday.

Partial official data showed no single party, nor coalition alone will have enough seats in parliament to govern.

At least 73 percent of Italy's 46.5 million voting age citizens turned out on Sunday elections to decide who would occupy the 315-member Senate and the 630-member Lower House. (Italy-election)

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DUBLIN -- There will not be any formal three-way talks among Britain, Ireland and the European Union (EU) to look at British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit offer, said Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Monday.

He told a local TV channel that it was not in Ireland's interests to take part in such talks regarding the withdrawal of Britain from the EU, and that what was needed was for London to produce more detailed proposals. (Ireland-Britain-Brexit)

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KIEV -- The armed conflict, which has raged in eastern Ukraine for almost four years, has claimed the lives of 138 children, a senior Ukrainian parliament official said on Monday.

"Since the start of the conflict, 138 children were killed. They fell victims to the hostilities and to the landmines explosions," Iryna Gerashchenko, the First Vice Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, told reporters during a briefing in Ukraine's southern city of Odessa. (Ukraine-Conflict-Children)

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GENEVA -- World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Roberto Azevedo on Monday called on members to avoid triggering an escalation in global trade barriers urging them to reflect on the matter.

He was speaking at a meeting of the whole WTO membership in response to a series of announcements from the organization's members in recent days which suggested that a range of new, unilateral trade barriers could soon be put into force. (WTO-Trade Barriers) Enditem