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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Sept. 16

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Around 350 refugees had been registered in Croatia before 1:00 p.m. local time (1100 GMT) Wednesday following the arrival of the first group of refugees in the morning, Croatian Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic confirmed.

Some of them had already been transported by buses to refugee centers here as well as to Jezevo, according to the minister. (Croatia-Refugees-Arrival)

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BUDAPEST -- Hungarian riot police on Wednesday fired tear gas and water cannon at protesting refugees, who are trying to enter the country at the border with Serbia, according to local media reports. (Hungary-Police-Refugees)

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KIEV -- Ukraine's parliament on Wednesday voted to unilaterally scrap an agreement to jointly build with Russia two reactors at the Khmelnitsky Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in western Ukraine, the parliament's press service said.

A total of 234 lawmakers out of the 307 present in the assembly supported the bill submitted by the government, more than the minimum 226 votes needed, the press service said in a statement.

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BAGHDAD -- Two of the 18 Turkish workers abducted earlier in Iraqi capital of Baghdad a week ago have been released in Iraq's southern city of Basra, a police source said on Wednesday.

The two Turkish workers were freed by their kidnappers near an under-construction building in the city of Basra, some 550 km south of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

(Iraq-Turkish Workers-Release)

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HELSINKI -- The United States has given a formal request to Finland asking the country to extradite a Russian citizen detained there.

The Russian man was detained on Aug. 8 in Finland when trying to cross the border into Russia. The Finnish action was based on a request from the United States as the Russian had been wanted by a U.S. court on account of alleged computer crimes. (Finland-US-Russian) Endi