Xinhua world news summary at 0830 GMT, April 16

UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations Security Council on Sunday condemned an attack on the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali that left one peacekeeper killed and many others injured.

Saturday's attack in the northern town of Timbuktu left one UN peacekeeper from Burkina Faso dead, and more than a dozen others, including French soldiers deployed separately in Mali, injured. (UN-Mali-Attack)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least two people were killed and five others injured in a drive-by shooting incident in Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta, local media and police said. (Pakistan-Accident-Death)

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TEHRAN -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the U.S.-led strikes on Syria proves that Washington has direct ties with terrorists, Tasnim news agency reported on Monday.

"The Americans showed such a reaction when they felt the terrorists were dislodged from an important region like Eastern Ghouta," Rouhani said in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Iran-US-Syria)

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PHILADELPHIA, the United States -- Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai Sunday urged U.S. politicians and strategists to "make the right choice at the crossroads of history" for the world's most important bilateral relations. (China-US-Relation)

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LIMA -- Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela has voiced his support for open and inclusive trade, and advocates further boosting global trade.

Varela said at the eighth Summit of the Americas, a two-day meeting that concluded here Saturday, that he is in support of a world with open border and with larger movements of people and goods. (Panama-Americas-Summit) Enditem