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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, April 18

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ANKARA -- Turkey will hold early presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24, 2018, instead of the scheduled date in November 2019, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in Ankara on Wednesday.

His statement came after a meeting with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli who called on the government to hold early elections on Tuesday. (Turkey-Elections)

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JAKARTA -- A shallow earthquake hit Central Java province of western Indonesia on Wednesday, leaving one person dead and hundreds houses and buildings destroyed, a disaster agency official said.

The 4.4-magnitude quake struck the province at 13:28 p.m. Jakarta time (0728 GMT) with the epicenter 52 km north of Kebumen district and a depth of 4 km, according to the meteorology and geophysics agency. (Indonesia-Earthquake)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday morning that CIA chief Mike Pompeo met with Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), in a secret visit to Pyongyang last week.

"Mike Pompeo met with Kim Jong Un in North Korea (the DPRK) last week. Meeting went very smoothly and a good relationship was formed," Trump tweeted. (US-DPRK)

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TOKYO -- Japanese Vice Finance Minister Junichi Fukuda will resign from his post amid allegations that he sexually harassed female reporters, Finance Minister Taro Aso announced Wednesday.

Fukuda's resignation came less than a year after he took on the role as the ministry's top bureaucrat and at a time when the ministry has been under fire for a number of improprieties, including a cronyism scandal implicating Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Japan-Vice Finance Minister-Sexual Harassment)

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SEOUL -- South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have agreed to live broadcast the upcoming inter-Korean summit later this month, the Blue House of South Korea said Wednesday.

The two sides agreed to live broadcast the key schedules and events of the historic summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and top DPRK leader Kim Jong Un to the world, from the very first scene at which the two leaders shake hands. (S. Korea-DPRK-Summit) Enditem

 

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