Xinhua world news summary at 1030 GMT, June 2
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CAIRO -- President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in on Saturday as the President of Egypt for a second term until 2022, state-run Nile TV reported.(Egypt-Sisi-Presidency)
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TIKRIT, Iraq -- Four Iraqi policemen were killed Saturday in a bomb explosion in Iraq's central province of Salahudin, a provincial police source told Xinhua.
The incident occurred in early morning when a roadside bomb struck a police patrol at a village near the city of Shirqat, some 280 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, destroying a police vehicle and killing four policemen aboard, Colonel Mohammed al-Jubouri said.(Iraq-IS-Bomb Attack)
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NEW DELHI -- As many as 15 people have been killed and nine others injured in thunderstorms in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said Saturday.
"The deaths took place in Moradabad, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Amroha and Sambhal districts after thunderstorms, accompanied by gusty winds and heavy rains, lashed the state late Friday evening. Some died after power poles and hoardings fell on them," a disaster management official said.(India-Rains-Deaths)
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OTTAWA -- Canada on Friday filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum, hours after the European Union (EU) initiated a dispute with the United States at the WTO.
"These unilateral tariffs, imposed under a false pretext of safeguarding U.S. national security, are inconsistent with the United States' international trade obligations and WTO rules," Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said in a statement. (Canada-WTO-US Tariffs) Enditem