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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, July 22

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Twenty Iraqis were killed and 52 others wounded when two car bombs exploded on Tuesday in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Iraqi police source said.

"The parked car bomb exploded in the New Baghdad area south of Baghdad, killing 18 people, including women and children, wounding 43 others and causing material damage to a number of nearby buildings and shops," a source in the Iraqi police told Xinhua. (Iraq-bomb)

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UNITED NATIONS -- All 193 member states of the United Nations are close to reaching agreement on the world's top development priorities for the next 15 years, Amina Mohammed, the UN secretary-general's special adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning, told reporters here Tuesday.

"It's 193 countries who take great ownership of this and so every step of the way this is about their will," Mohammed said at a press conference. The post-2015 development agenda, or the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is expected to be adopted in September to replace the Millennium Development Goals, a set of eight anti-poverty targets. (UN-international development)

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WASHINGTON, July 21 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Department of Defense on Tuesday said that Muhsin al-Fadhli, a longtime al-Qaida operative and the leader of the Khorasan Group, was killed in U.S. airstrike in northern Syria on July 8.

Al-Fadhli, who had previously been targeted and believed by some people in the U.S. to have been killed, was traveling in a vehicle near Sarmada, Syria, when he was hit by an air strike, said the DOD. (Syria-Al Qaida)

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ZAGREB -- Croatian firefighters and volunteers on Tuesday continued to fight the forest fires that are burning along Croatian Adriatic coast.

Croatian Ministry of Defence sent 50 soldiers to help extinguishing fires.

One biggest fire, started near the village of Pijavicino, the southern coast of Croatia on Monday, has burned over 400 acres of forest and 50 inhabitants were evacuated, besides cutting electricity in the part of the peninsula. (Croatia-fire)

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LAGOS, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's newly appointed Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) has said the ongoing military operations against Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast would be reviewed for greater efficiency.

Olonishakin, who made this known in Abuja, Nigeria's capital city at a handing over ceremony, said he would meet with the service chiefs and other officers to brainstorm on the planned changes. (Nigeria-Boko Haram)

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UNITED NATIONS -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported a cholera outbreak in South Sudan with more than 1,000 cases recorded so far, said a UN spokesperson here on Tuesday.

The WHO said that more than 1,210 cholera cases, including 39 deaths have been reported, mostly in Juba and Bor counties, UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq told a daily briefing. (WHO-Sudan-pandemic) Endi