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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Jan. 9

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The Estonian government has legally established the temporary Estonian-Russian border line, making changes in the State Border Act, according to Estonian Public Broadcasting (ERR) report on Friday.

The temporary border line will act as the legal basis for marking the border until the actual border treaty between the two nations is ratified. And the temporary control line overlaps the line fixed in the unratified border treaty by around 90 percent, the ERR report said.(Estonia-Russia-Border)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. economy continued to add a considerable number of new jobs in December and the jobless rate fell to 5.6 percent, adding fresh evidence that the world's largest economy is well on track of recovery.

The nonfarm payroll employment added 252,000 new jobs in December, and the unemployment rate declined by 0.2 percentage point to 5.6 percent, the Labor Department said on Friday. (U.S.-Jobless Rate)

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PARIS -- At least two people are dead and one injured in Porte de Vincennes hostage crisis in East Pae Vincennes, 20th Arrondissement, East Paris. At least one person is injured, added BFMTV.

The man who has taken five hostages are equipped with two Kalashnikov.Thursday morning, a 20-year-old policewoman was killed in a shooting in Montrouge, south Paris. A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire on her and a civil employee who was responding to a traffic accident. (France-Attack)

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ABIDJAN -- At least 18 children were abducted and used in ritual crimes last year in Cote d'Ivoire, a police source said Thursday.

The director for criminal investigation department of the police Honore Gnagne said between Feb. 3, 2014 to date, 18 cases of child abduction had been reported across the national territory, four of them in Abidjan's Yopougon district. (Cote d'Ivoire-Abduction)

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SEOUL -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday refused to accept the resolution calling for inter-Korean dialogue passed by South Korea's National Assembly, Seoul's Unification Ministry said on Friday.

A ministry official told a press that Seoul has attempted to send the resolution through a communication line on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, but the DPRK refused to accept it " according to instructions from authority." (S.Korea-DPRK-Talks) Endi