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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Dec. 14

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated on Sunday her refusal to an upper limit on the number of refugees Germany will admit, saying European and international measures are needed to solve the current refugee crisis.

She made the remarks in an interview with German television broadcaster ARD on Sunday evening, ahead of a two-day party congress of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU). (Germany-Refugees)

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PARIS -- French far-right National Front party, who reported a historic victory during first round of the French regional election last week, failed on Sunday during the final round of the runoff.

Based on OpinonWay/B2S pollster's partial vote count, the National Front leader Marine Le Pen failed to take the France's northernmost area, Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region where The Republicans' candidate Xavier Bertrands won 57.7 percent of the votes. (France-Regional Election)

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GAZA -- Israeli fighters carried out two successive airstrikes on the Gaza Strip early Monday in response to earlier rocket firing from the coastal enclave into Israel, and no casualties were reported.

Security officials in the Hamas-ruled enclave said one of the airstrikes targeted a post belonging to Hamas naval police in northern Gaza and the other one targeted a training post that belongs to Hamas armed wing in central Gaza. (Palestine-Israel-Air Strike)

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WASHINGTON -- The Americans' confidence in the federal government's ability to protect its citizens from future acts of terrorism has dropped to a record low, according to a new Gallup poll.

Fifty-five percent of Americans now say they have a "great deal" or a "fair amount" of confidence in the U.S. government to protect Americans from terrorism, 33 percent lower than the level of confidence shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, according to the poll released in the wake of a shooting carnage in California. (US-Terrorism)

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KHARTOUM -- At least 17 people were killed and around 30 others injured in bloody tribal clashes in Sudan's South Darfur State, Sudan Tribune reported Sunday.

"Violent clashes broke out between Rizeigat and Miseria tribes in South Darfur state which resulted in the killing of at least 17 people and injuring of around 30 others, some of them in serious conditions," the report said. (Sudan-Tribal Clashes) Endi