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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, July 5

Xinhua, July 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

The armed wing of Islamic Hamas movement denied on Saturday that its militants were directly or indirectly involved in the last deadly attacks in the Egyptian Peninsula of Sinai. (Gaza-Hamas-Sinai)

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JERUSALEM -- Thousands of Israelis took to the streets in major cities on Saturday evening in protest of a government's plan to let a U.S.-Israeli partnership keep control over the country's natural gas fields.

(Israel-Protest-Gas)

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DAMASCUS -- The Islamic State (IS) militants released a video footage on Saturday, purporting to show the execution of as many as 25 government forces in the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria, according to a monitor group. (Syria-IS-Video)

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LONDON -- Britain on Saturday slammed the recent Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria's northeast Borno State, which have killed over 100 people in the holy month of Ramadan. (Britain-Boko-Nigeria) Endi