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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Sept. 29

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At least seven people were killed and 21 others wounded on Tuesday in a suicide bomb attack near the Iraqi capital Baghdad and a heavy clash with Islamic State (IS) militants in the western province of Anbar, security sources said.

In Anbar province, a fierce clash erupted in the morning when dozens of IS militants attacked police positions outside the town of Khaldiyah, some 80 km west of Baghdad, leaving at least five policemen dead and 12 others wounded, a provincial security source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. (Iraq-Clash)

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BUCHAREST -- Romania's center-left government led by Victor Ponta on Tuesday easily survived the motion of no-confidence initiated by the main opposition National Liberal Party.

The motion was defeated at a plenary session of the Parliament, as it garnered 207 votes in favor, far from the required minimum of 278 votes, half plus 1 in the 554-seat bicameral parliament. (Romania-Censure Motion-Government)

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OTTAWA -- Canada's two main opposition leaders have attacked Prime Minister Stephen Harper's foreign policy in an election debate three weeks before Canadians go to the polls.

In the debate held in Toronto on Monday, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, whose popularity has been on the rise, challenged Harper over his government's recent decision to revoke the citizenship of Zakaria Amara, a Jordanian-born man serving a life sentence for leading a terrorist plot targeting several Canadian sites, including the parliament building in Ottawa. (Canada-Election-Debate)

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GENEVA -- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) revealed on Tuesday that some 130 civilians had allegedly been killed by a Saudi-led airstrike which hit a wedding party in Wahijah, located in Yemen's Taizz Governorate.

OHCHR spokesman Rupert Colville said their office and team in Yemen had received the reports and were working to verify the details. (Yemen-Airstrikes-Wedding)

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ANKARA -- The Turkish military killed more than 30 members of outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in a cross-border operation into northern Iraq overnight, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.

"We'll not stop, but continue (military operations)," Erdogan said, adding that the Turkish military has killed more than 2,000 PKK members in both domestic and cross border operations since July. (Turkey-PKK) Endi