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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, May 24

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Greek Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis issued a fresh warning on Sunday that Greece would not repay loan installments to the International Monetary Fund in June, while Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis publicly pondered on the advantages and disadvantages of Grexit during a ruling party meeting. (Greece-IMF)

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DUBLIN -- Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny on Saturday evening welcomed the results of Friday's referendum over same-sex marriage, saying that Ireland has become the first country in the world to vote for equal marriage.

"Today Ireland made history. The first country in the world to vote for equal marriage. I welcome that and thank all those who voted yesterday," Kenny said. (Ireland-Same Sex Marriage)

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WASHINGTON -- Renowned Princeton Mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Prize laureate whose life story inspired the movie "A Beautiful Mind", was killed in a car accident together with his wife in New Jersey, U.S. media reported Sunday.

According to U.S. TV network ABC News, the car crash happened on Saturday when Nash, 86, and his wife Alicia Nash, 82, were travellng in a taxi on the New Jersey Turnpike. The taxi driver lost control of the car and crashed into a guard rail, said the report. (US-Nobel Prize Laureate-Death)

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TRIPOLI -- Libyan air force on Sunday bombed a Greek oil tanker off the Libyan coast, injuring some of its crew members and damaging a large part of it, said a source from the national army.

A fighter jet of the Libyan air force attacked the Greek oil tanker, Anwar 1, as it was docking off the shores of Sirte, some 500 km east of the capital Tripoli, for suspicion of carrying arms and ammunition to terrorist groups, the source told Xinhua on the condition of anonymity.

(Libya-Greece-Airforce)

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DAMASCUS -- The Islamic State (IS) militants killed about 400 people since they stormed the ancient city of Palmyra on central Syria last Wednesday, the official Syrian TV reported Sunday.

Most of those killed in that millennia-old oasis city were women and children, the TV said. (Syria-IS-Toll) Endi