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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, May 14

Xinhua, May 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

Fireworks were shot into the sky over Tonle Sap River in front of the Royal Palace here Thursday night to celebrate the 62nd birthday of Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni.

The fireworks had been shown for about 20 minutes and their colored explosions had caught the eyes of hoards of well-wishers. (Cambodian-King-Birthday)

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BUJUMBURA -- At least 15 workers including journalists and other agents Thursday got stranded inside Burundi National Radio and Television in an attack by pro-coup forces, a witness told Xinhua.

The fighting started at about 12:45 p.m. local time and is still going on. And the state radio went off the air later during the fight. (Burundi-Coup-Airport)

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ABUJA -- At least 11 people were feared dead in a suicide bomb attack near a military base in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno on Wednesday, a military source said Thursday, less than 24 hours after the incident.

The suicide attack, by a female member of Boko Haram, heralded an attempted invasion of Maiduguri, capital of the northern Borno State, by the terror group, according to the military source, who was among troops deployed to repel the attack at dusk on Wednesday. (Nigeria-Bomb-Attack)

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ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan on Thursday rejected claim by a veteran American journalist that Pakistan's top military leaders knew about the presence of Osama bin Laden and the U.S. military operation that had killed him.

Seymour Hersh, in a controversial article in the London Review of Books, said this week that the U.S. raid in the garrison city of Abbotabad was a joint operation between the U.S. and Pakistani military intelligence. (Pakistan-U.S.-Laden)

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MANILA -- Death toll has risen to 72 in a fire that occurred Wednesday noon at a sandals factory in Valenzuela city of Metro Manila, the Philippines, said a senior government official Thursday.

Mar Roxas, the country's interior and local government secretary, said in a press briefing that 72 bodies have been retrieved from the factory located in Barangay Ugong. (Philippines-Fire-Death) Endi