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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Aug. 23

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An aircraft crashed in an airshow in west Sussex, southeastern Britain on Saturday, leaving seven people dead and several injured, local police confirmed.

The incident occurred at around 1:20 p.m. local time (1220 GMT), said Sussex Police, adding that the aircraft hit several cars on a busy main road, north of Shoreham Airport, where an air display is holding. (Britain-Plane Crash)

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PARIS -- French government on Saturday called for higher vigilance and to further intensify security mainly in public transport after a gunman opened fire against passengers at a Thalys high-speed train injuring three people. (France-Security)

- - - - ' SEOUL -- South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will resume the ongoing high- level emergency contact later Sunday after nearly 10 hours of their first-round talks, the South Korean presidential office said.

Presidential spokesman Min Kyung-wook told reporters that the senior-level contact lasted from 6:30 p.m. (0930 GMT) Saturday to 4:15 a.m. Sunday at the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarize zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas. (Korean Peninsula-Talks)

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RAMALLAH -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and nine PLO executive committee members resigned, a senior official said on Saturday.

Abbas and the nine PLO executive committee members resigned on Saturday in a bid to force the Palestinian National Council (PNC), the PLO parliament in exile, to convene soon. (Palestine-Resignation)

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DAMASCUS -- At least nine Syrian officers were killed Saturday during fresh battles with the Islamic State (IS) group at a besieged northern airbase, a monitor group reported.

The officers were killed during battles when the IS militants blew up a suicide car bomb near the Koerse airbase in the countryside of the northern province of Aleppo, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Syria-IS-Attack)

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MOGADISHU -- At least 3 civilians were killed in a car bomb explosion in Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday afternoon, police said.

Senior police officer Said Abdi told Xinhua that the car which exploded was parked at Juba conjunction north of the capital. (Somalia-Car Bomb) Endi