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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Nov. 6

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Eight out of 29 scheduled flights will leave Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh for Britain on Friday, an Egyptian official said, one day after Britain grounded all fights between the two countries due to a recent Russian airline crash over the Sinai peninsula.

(Egypt-Flights-Britain)

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LUXEMBOURG CITY -- Foreign ministers from Asian and European countries agreed to strengthen cooperation on climate change, connectivity at the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), Federica Mogherini, the European Union foreign policy chief said at the press conference on Friday.(EU-ASEM)

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YANGON -- Myanmar President U Thein Sein promised on Friday to accept results of the general election to be held in the country on Sunday.

U Thein Sein made the remarks in a nationwide speech to voters via radio and TV two days ahead of the historic poll. (Myanmar-Election)

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DAMASCUS -- A total of 49 rebel groups with the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) released a statement on Friday denying reports about an imminent meeting between FSA representatives and Russian officials in the United Arab Emirates. (Syria-FSA-Meeting) Endi