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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, May 29

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Two car bombs inside parking lot of two hotels in Baghdad, Iraq's capital, have killed at least 10 people and wounded 27 others, security sources said.

A security official in Baghdad told reporters Friday that a car bomb in parking lot of Babil Hotel in central Baghdad exploded, killing at least six people and wounding 14 others. (Iraq-Car Bombs)

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PARIS -- French President Francois Hollande on Thursday received British Prime Minister David Cameron who started a European tour to build support for EU reforms before EU membership in-out referendum by the end of 2017.

"France wants the UK to remain in the European Union. We think it's in the interest of Europe and in the interest of the United Kingdom to be together but the people must always be respected," Hollande said. (France-Cameron)

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MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Moscow was determined to develop friendly relationship with all countries, "both in the West and the East."

"We will be developing friendly relations with all of our partners, both in the West and the East, and take part in working out collective solutions to global and regional problems," Putin said. (Russia-Putin)

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NICOSIA -- The leaders of the divided Greek and Turkish communities of Cyprus took their first steps towards reunification of the eastern Mediterranean island on Thursday, making progress in peace talks for the first time in more than a decade.

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, acting as leader of the Greek Cypriots, and Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akinci, announced they had agreed on opening two more border crossing points to link the two parts of the island, to merge their respective electricity grids, and to explore practical steps to merge their mobile telephone networks. (Cyprus-Reunification) Endi