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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Sept. 20

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Hungarian-Serbian border crossing Horgos 1 opened again Sunday morning for regular traffic, after it was closed last Monday because of a wave of refugees.

Horgos 1 border crossing as well as the highway which connects Serbia and Hungary were opened today with the presence of Serbian and Hungarian interior ministers Nebojsa Stefanovic and Sandor Pinter. (Serbia-Hungary-Migrant)

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BRATISLAVA -- Eighteen asylum seekers from Austria are now living in the refugee facility in Gabcikovo in Southern Slovakia and the situation in the village is calm, announced Gabcikovo mayor Ivan Fenes on Sunday.

Turning to the issue of the local referendum on Aug. 2 in which an overwhelming majority of the village's inhabitants opposed the placement of asylum seekers there, Fenes said that this wasn't a waste of time notwithstanding the fact that the asylum seekers have been brought there anyway. (Slovakia-Refugee-Asylum)

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ZAGREB -- Refugees continued to arrive in Croatia although it closed all but one of its border crossings with Serbia.

Around 4,000 people on Sunday are waiting for trains or buses in Tovarnik, the town near the border, to be transported to next destination. (Croatia-Refugees)

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KATHMANDU -- Nepal adopted a new constitution on Sunday, the first full-fledged one in the Himalayan nation after it became a democratic republic in 2008.

A federal and secular Nepal will have seven provinces each with its own legislature, according to the new constitution. (Nepal-Constitution)

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ATHENS -- Greek voters started casting their ballots Sunday in the second general elections this year to elect a new government that will implement the latest three year bailout agreed in the summer with international creditors.

Polling stations are open early in the morning. About 9.8 million citizens of 18 years and above registered to vote in the 19,457 polling stations nationwide. The number of eligible new voters stands at 108,464. (Greece-Polls-Elections)

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ISTANBUL -- At least 13 migrants, including four children, died when their boat hit a passenger boat in the Aegen Sea off Turkey's Canakkale coast, on Sunday.

The incident occurred when the boat carrying 46 migrants collided with a ferry off the coast of Canakkale, according to a report by local Anatolian news agency. (Turkey-Migrants) Endi