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Xinhua world news summary at 0130 GMT, Nov. 6

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Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush strongly criticized former Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for their hard-line views and poor service to his son, former President George W. Bush, U.S. media reported Thursday.

In a newly released biography about the elder Bush, the 41st president of the U.S., Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Jon Meacham revealed that Bush also faulted his son, the 43rd president, for using "hot rhetoric" on the world stage.(U.S.- George H. W. Bush - Biography)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday notified Congress that he intended to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), hours after the long-awaited text of the trade deal was released.

The release of the text came exactly one month after trade ministers of the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries reached an agreement on the TPP in Atlanta, the U.S. state of Georgia.(U.S.- TPP)

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RIO DE JANEIRO -- An iron ore tailings dam in the southeast Brazilian state of Minas Gerais collapsed Thursday, killing at least 15 people, according to local media reports.

The Fundao dam, owned by Samarco, a joint venture between Vale and BHP Billiton, breached at around 4:20 p.m., local time, and released a torrential flow of water and mud into the town of Bento Rodrigues, where about 620 people live, seven km away. (Brazil-Dam-Collapse)

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UNITED NATIONS -- Though Libyan peace talks remain unresolved after one year of discussions, outgoing UN negotiator Bernadino Leon told the UN Security Council Thursday that a political agreement is as urgently needed as ever.

"There is a growing sense of urgency, and an insistence that the country should no longer be held hostage to narrow interests of a few on either side of the political divide," said Leon, who is the special representative of the UN Secretary-General and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya. (UN-Libyan-Peace talks) Endi