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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Dec. 5

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The Iraqi President Fuad Masoum said on Saturday that the presence of Turkish troops inside Iraq is a "violation" to the norms and international law, calling on Turkey to withdraw its troops.

Masoum said in a statement that "a force from neighboring Turkey advanced deep inside the Iraqi territory in a violation for the norms and international law and to the Iraqi sovereignty." (Iraq-Turkey-Military)

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CAIRO -- The Egyptian police managed on Saturday to arrest the third perpetrator of the recent deadly night club attack in Greater Cairo that left 16 people dead and three others injured, state-run Al-Ahram news website reported.

According to their confessions, the attack on Friday early morning was in revenge of the owners and workers at Al-Sayyad nightclub in Agouza district who kicked them out a night before after they started a fight over a woman. (Egypt-Police-Night Club)

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ISLAMABAD -- Afghan Taliban said Saturday they have received an audio message of their chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor and will release it soon.

"It will discredit the sinister designs of the enemy," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a brief message sent to the media. (Pakistan-Afghanistan-Taliban)

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BAGHDAD -- The radio of the Islamic State (IS) militant group on Saturday claimed that two of its followers carried out Wednesday's San Bernardino mass shooting in California.

The terrorist group made the declaration on their official radio station three days after the attack that left 14 people killed and some 21 others injured when two attackers identified as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, burst into a holiday party for the environmental health department in the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California. (Islamic State-California)

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KABUL -- Several shops turned to ashes as a massive fire engulfed a market in a main business hub in central Kabul Saturday morning, police said.

"The fire started at around 10:00 a.m. local time in a plastic shoes market inside Kabul Mandawi, the main business center in the city, causing serious damages to the shops but no casualties took place by the incident," a police officer told Xinhua near the site. (Afghanistan-Kabul-Fire)

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KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia arrested 5 men with suspected involvement in terrorist activities, including three linking to the Islamic States(IS), police said Saturday.

The three suspected with link to IS were arrested respectively in the Central state of Selangor, northern Kelantan and southern Johor. they were believed to belong to a small cell headed by a 31-year-old mechanic from Indonesia. (Malaysia-Suspects-Arrest) Endi