Xinhua world news summary at 1000 GMT, April 10

HOUSTON -- U.S. Border Patrol agents on Monday announced the beginning of a section of barrier construction on the southern border with Mexico.

The existing fence on the border with Mexico in El Paso, Texas, will be replaced by a new barrier, said Agent Aaron A. Hull, chief of the U.S. Border Patrol's El Paso sector at the groundbreaking ceremony. (US-Mexico-Border Wall)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he expected to meet Kim Jong Un, the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), in May or early June.

"We'll be meeting with them sometime in May or early June, and I think there will be great respect paid by both parties," he told a cabinet meeting, saying that he hoped the two sides would be able to make a deal on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. (US-DPRK-Meeting)

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HERAT, Afghanistan -- At least 15 armed militants and two soldiers were killed after clashes erupted between Afghan security forces and militants in Herat province, west of Afghanistan, a local official said Tuesday.

"The clashes occurred after Taliban militants stormed security checkpoints with guns and rockets in remote Chishti Sharif district late Monday, leaving 15 militants dead and eight others injured," Jilani Farhad, spokesman for provincial government, told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Gunfight-Militants)

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NEW DELHI -- At least 18 people were killed and 15 others injured Tuesday after a goods truck carrying laborers hit a road divider in western Indian state of Maharashtra, police said.

The accident took place on Pune-Satara highway near Khandala in Pune district about 81 km east of Mumbai, the capital city of Maharashtra. (India-Traffic Accident-Death) Enditem