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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Sept. 8

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The U.S. embassy in South Africa said on Tuesday that it has received information that extremists may be targeting U.S. interests in the country.(SAfrica-US-Embassy)

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MOGADISHU --The withdrawal of African Union and Somali troops from key towns in Somalia's southern and central region was a tactical move to enable them organize for a new onslaught against Al-Shabaab militants, a government official said on Tuesday.(Somalia-AU-Withdrawal)

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ASSADABAD, Afghanistan -- A key Taliban commander, Mullah Ashrafullah, was killed as a pilotless plane targeted a Taliban hideout in Ghazi Abad district of Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province on Tuesday, provincial police chief Abdul Habib Sayedkhili said. (Afghanistan-Taliban-Commander)

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BAGHDAD -- Unidentified gunmen on Tuesday kidnapped the deputy minister of justice, a ministry's director general and a bodyguard in eastern the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a police source said. (Iraq-Minister-Kidnapping)

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ANKARA -- Twenty Turkish customs officers abducted by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in August were freed on Tuesday, an official from a human rights group told local Hurriyet News. (Turkey-Customs Officer-Release)

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JAKARTA -- Mount Gamalama volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted on Tuesday, spewing a column of ash by up to 1, 000 meters to the sky, official said. (Indonesia-Volcano-Eruption) Endi