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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, May 25

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The preliminary exit poll results of Sunday's second round of presidential elections in Poland indicated that Andrzej Duda from the Law and Justice Party received 53 percent of all votes, thus winning the election.

Incumbent President Bronislaw Komorowski, backed by the Civic Platform party, scored 47 percents of all votes. (Poland-Presidential Election)

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CANNES, France -- French movie Dheepan, directed by Jacques Audiard, won the Palme d'Or for the Best Film at the 68th Festival de Cannes on Sunday, while the Best Director Award was given to Hou Hsiao-Hsien.

Dheepan is about the story of a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl pose as a family in order to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka. They end up settling in a housing project outside Paris. They barely know one another, but try to build a life together. (France-Cannes Film Festival)

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ANKARA -- At least three workers were killed and two others seriously injured in an explosion at a cement factory in Ankara province of central Turkey on Sunday, private Dogan news agency reported.

The report said the explosion occurred at the cement factory in Kazan town of Ankara province, causing fire in the factory. (Turkey-Explosion)

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WASHINGTON -- In a rare departure from the White House's reaffirmed support for the Iraqi government after occupation of the crucial Iraqi city Ramadi by the extremist group Islamic State (IS), U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Sunday blamed the Iraqis for lacking will to fight.

"They (Iraqi forces) were not outnumbered, but in fact they vastly outnumbered the opposing force, and yet they failed to fight. They withdrew from the site," Carter told the U.S. TV networks CNN Sunday. "What apparently happened was that the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight." (US-Carter) Endi