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Xinhua world news summary at 0100 GMT, Sept. 28

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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday made a four-point proposal on further advancing women's rights worldwide while addressing a high-level summit at the United Nations (UN) headquarters.

Speaking at the Global Leaders' Meeting on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, Xi said the pursuit of gender equality is "a great cause," for "a review of history shows that without women's liberation and progress, the liberation and progress of mankind would not be attainable."(UN-China-Xi's Speech)

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UNITED NATIONS -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday committed the United States to achieving global development goals at a United Nations summit, vowing to reduce inequality and create opportunities around the world.

"In doing so, we recognize that our most basic bond -- our common humanity -- compels us to act," Obama said at the three-day Sustainable Development Summit that ended here at the UN Headquarters in New York Sunday. (UN-U.S.-Development Goals)

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BARCELONA -- Pro-independence political parties won on Sunday parliamentary elections in Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia in a day marked by a huge participation of more than 77 percent.

With 96.05 percent of votes counted, the main pro-independence party, "Junts Pel Si" (Together for Yes) won 62 seats that added to the 10 seats of the smaller leftist party CUP (Candidatura d'Unitat Popular) to a total of 72 seats, a majority at the 135 seats parliament, but two fewer seats when compared with 2012 elections. (Spain-Catalonia-Parliamentary Elections)

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JERUSALEM/DAMASCUS -- The Israeli army said Sunday night that it fired artillery into Syria in response to an errant projectile that hit earlier the Golan Heights, in a second such incident in two days.

Earlier this evening, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported that a rocket landed in an open field in the northern Golan Heights. No injuries or damages were reported. (Israel-Syria-Retaliation)

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RAMALLAH -- The Palestinian Presidency denied on Sunday reports that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry opposed a meeting between the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The spokesperson of the Presidency Nabil Abu Rudeineh said in a statement published by the Palestinian official news agency Wafa that the position of President Abbas is clear. (Palestinians-Israel) Endi