Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, May 10
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Beneath unusually cloudy Colorado skies, the dramatic mass murder trial for James Holmes, who massacred a dozen people in a Colorado movie theater, ended its second week with more riveting testimony.
Friday's testimony centered on Holmes' apartment a few miles from the theater, that he had elaborately but ineffectively "booby- trapped" to create a diversion away from the surprise attack he unleashed at the Century 16 Theater in the Denver suburb of Aurora. (US-Denver Shooting Trial)
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SKOPJE -- Five Macedonian policemen were killed and more than 30 others injured in a major operation against armed group, Macedonian Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska said Saturday evening.
"This is a very difficult operation... one of the most difficult that the Macedonian police have ever encountered," Jankuloska told a press conference on the operation conducted in the highly populated town of Kumanovo, an ethnic Albanian area of northern Macedonia. (Macedonia-Operation-Police)
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BAGHDAD -- As the Iraqi government is preparing to announce more major offensives to regain cities and towns from Islamic State (IS) militant group, the extremist group surprised the Iraqi forces and allied militias with war of attrition and pre-emptive attacks.
The liberation of Salahudin provincial capital city of Tikrit late in March, the military success was seen as the beginning of a series of IS pull back from Iraqi cities, but the extremist group continued its attacks on the security forces and allied militias in the country's largest oil refinery of Baiji in north of Tikrit, as well as major attacks in the heartland of Sunni Arabs in Iraq's western province of Anbar. (Roundup-Iraq-IS)
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WASHINGTON -- The Ebola virus can persist within the eyeballs for months after a patient recovers from the potentially deadly disease, researchers have found.
A report released this week by the U.S. journal New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) described a case in which Ebola was present in the eye's aqueous humor -- the clear fluid in the front of the eye, between the lens and the cornea -- 10 weeks after the virus was cleared from the patient's blood. (US-Ebola) Endi