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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Dec. 12

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France on Saturday delivered the final text of a global agreement on climate change to participants of the marathon climate talks in Paris.

Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who presided over nearly a fortnight of talks in Paris that ran into overtime, said the proposed UN accord would be "fair, lasting, dynamic, balanced and legally binding." (France-Climate Talks)

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ATHENS -- Greece's government struck on Friday evening a deal with auditors of international lenders in Athens on the next set of measures to unlock a further one billion euro (about 1.1 billion U.S. dollars) bailout installment to the debt laden country in coming weeks.

"We have a deal," Economy Minister Yorgos Stathakis announced with Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos standing next to him after the latest talks with foreign officials that started Tuesday in the Greek capital. (Greece-Debt Crisis)

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SEOUL -- South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday ended their vice ministers' talks without any agreement, according to Seoul's unification ministry.

The senior-level dialogue, which continued for two days at the DPRK's border city of Kaesong, ended without any joint press conference. (S. Korea-DPRK-Peace Talks)

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DAMASCUS -- At least eight people were killed and 25 others wounded in a car bomb attack in Syria's central city of Homs on Saturday, just days after a deal ended the rebel existence in their last stronghold west of Homs, state news agency SANA reported.

A booby-trapped car tore through the pro-government al-Zahra'a neighborhood of Homs, an area that has seen several bombings as it's home to the Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shiism, to whom the ruling elite in Syria belongs. (Syria-Car Bomb Attack)

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TRIPOLI -- Libya's two rival parliaments announced on Friday that Dec. 16 is the date to sign the final peace agreement.

"We have agreed that Dec. 16 will be the date for signing the final agreement to form a government in Libya after 14 months of negotiations," said Mohammed Shuaib, representative for Libya's internationally recognized parliament House of Representatives (HOR). (Libya-Peace Agreement) Endi