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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Aug. 24

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The 6th Chief Negotiators' Meeting on establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) agreed on Monday to name Jin Liqun, a former Chinese official, as the official candidate for the bank's president.

The chief negotiators from 54 of the 57 founding members of the AIIB (with Sri Lanka, Switzerland and Amman absent) unanimously agreed to choose Jin for the post in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia.(Georgia-AIIB-President)

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CAIRO -- A bomb exploded Monday on a bus carrying Egyptian policemen in the country's Delta province of Beheira, killing two and wounding 24 others, state-run MENA news agency reported.

According to MENA, the blast occurred in the town of Rashid, some 150 km north of Cairo.(Egypt-Bomb)

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BANGKOK -- Thai police on Monday found an undetonated bomb in downtown Bangkok, but said it was not related to the recent bombing attack that left at least 20 people dead, local media reported.

A Cambodian worker found a suspicious object while digging a hole at a construction site in Soi Sukhumvit 81, which later turned out to be an unexploded hand grenade, Spring News reported.(Thailand-Undetonated Bomb)

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RIYADH -- Saudi Arabia registered on Monday five Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus fatalities and seven fresh cases all in Riyadh, the health ministry said in a statement.

The statement came short after an earlier statement by the ministry which confirmed the infection of 49 people with MERS coronavirus in a week.(Saudi-MERS-Fatalities)

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KATHMANDU -- The death toll in the violent clash that erupted over the proposed federalism in the far western Nepal has reached to 20, local media reported.

At least 17 police personnel and three protesters were killed in the clash that took place in Tikapur of Kailali district on Monday afternoon.(Nepal-Clash)

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KATHMANDU -- Nepal and India inked the much awaited petroleum-pipeline deal on Monday, initiating the construction of the 41-km pipeline.

The agreement was signed between Indian Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan and Nepalese Minister for Commerce and Supplies Sunil Bahadur Thapa in Kathmandu. (Nepal-India-Pipeline Deal) Endi