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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Dec. 6

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A stabbing at a Tube station in east London is being treated as a "terrorist incident," the Metropolitan Police said.

Police were called at 19:06 to reports of several people being stabbed at Leytonstone Underground station. The male suspect was reportedly threatening other people with a knife. (UK-Terror Attack)

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PARIS -- French President Francois Hollande and his American counterpart Barack Obama on Saturday expressed determination to boost common efforts in a bid to combat terrorist cells after suspected followers of the Islamic State (IS) killed 14 people in California on Wednesday.

During phone conversation, both leaders affirmed their determination to build strong front to face "common (terrorist) threat" by uniting efforts and resources, Hollande's office said in a statement. (France-U.S.-Counter Terrorism)

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NEW DELHI -- India and Pakistan Sunday held national security advisor-level talks in Thailand's capital Bangkok, nearly four months after New Delhi called off the same.

Immediately after the meeting between India's Ajit Doval and Pakistan's Naseer Khan Janjua, both issued a joint statement, saying it took place in a "candid, cordial and constructive atmosphere." (India-Pakistan-Security Talks)

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BAGHDAD -- A total of 39 people were killed on Sunday in U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq's western province of Anbar, a provincial security source said.

The international aircraft carried out airstrikes on three IS positions in Albu Haiyat area in east of the town of Haditha, some 200 km northwest of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, killing 18 IS militants and destroying seven of their vehicles, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. (Iraq-IS-Airstrikes)

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ADEN, Yemen -- The Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for assassinating the governor of Yemen's Aden province and six of his bodyguards in a bomb attack in the country's temporary capital on Sunday, the militant group said in a statement posted on social media.

The IS also threatened to launch more attacks against the Yemeni government in a brief statement posted on Twitter. (Yemen-IS-Terror Attack) Endi