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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, May 31

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Iraqi security forces on Sunday continued advance and clashes with the Islamic State (IS) militants in the northern central province of Salahudin, while U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi aircraft pounded suspected IS positions in Anbar province, a provincial official and security sources said.

The troops and allied militias, known as Hashd Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization, recaptured B'ieji area and several nearby villages in east of the IS-held town of Baiji, some 200 km north of the capital of Baghdad, Mohammed Hameed, mayor of Baiji, told Xinhua by telephone. (Iraq-IS-Clash)

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SINGAPORE -- A senior Chinese military official on Sunday urged relevant countries to work together to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and cooperation, stressing that there has never been an issue with the freedom of navigation in the vast sea.

In a speech delivered at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Admiral Sun Jianguo, deputy chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army, said the situation in the South China Sea was on the whole peaceful and stable.

(Singapore-South China Sea)

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DAMASCUS -- At least 27 people were killed and 30 others wounded on Sunday when a fuel tank exploded on a clinic rooftop in northern Syria, the official Syrian TV said.

The Maysaloun clinic in the city of Hasaka was set on fire after the fuel tank exploded, the report said, adding that most of the victims were children who were taking vaccines at the clinic while the blast occurred.

(Syria-Clinic-Explosion-1st LD)

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AYBAK, Afghanistan -- Conflict between Taliban and the Afghan security forces in the northern Samangan province killed 13 people, including five policemen, provincial Governor Khairullah Anosh said on Sunday.

"A group of Taliban rebels raided police checkpoints in Dara-e- Sof Paen district in the wee hours of Sunday and the security forces returned fire which lasted for a while during which five police and eight insurgents had been killed," Anosh told reporters. (Afghanistan-Gun Battle) Endi