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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Jan. 26

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At least 35 people were killed and 60 injured in five suicide bomb attacks in Cameroon's Far North Region on Monday.

One army source told Xinhua five women who pretended to be vegetable vendors detonated the bombs hidden in their vegetable baskets at around 11:30 a.m. (10:30 GMT) on Monday in Bodo, a town in Far North Region, killing at least 35 people, including themselves, and injuring 60. (Cameroon-Attacks)

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PRAGUE -- The Czech government has decided to provide military aid to Iraq and Jordan, which will be part of the country's contribution to the fight against Islamic State, said Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka on Twitter on Monday.

Czech defence ministry proposed to send over 6,500 new and used assault rifles and more than seven millions of pieces of ammunition to Iraqi and Kurdish army, and nearly seven millions of pieces of ammunition to Jordan.(Czech-IS)

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AMSTERDAM -- The terrorist group Islamic State is planning large scale Paris-style terror attacks, focusing primarily on Europe, the head of European Union's police agency Europol warned on Monday.

"The so-called Islamic State has developed a new combat style capability to carry out a campaign of large scale attacks on a global stage with a particular focus on targets in Europe," Europol's director Rob Wainwright told reporters in Amsterdam on Monday when launching a new Europe-wide counter-terror initiative, the European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC).(IS-Plan-Terror Attacks)

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DAMASCUS -- A booby-trapped vehicle tore through a security headquarter of the Syrian rebel, Ahrar al-Sham Movement, in the northern province of Aleppo on Monday, killing 23 people, including 19 militants and injuring tens of others, a monitor group reported.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the "powerful explosion" rocked the rebel-held district of al-Sukary in eastern Aleppo city.(Syria-Explosion-Rebel)

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BAGHDAD -- Iraqi airstrikes on Islamic State (IS) positions and hideouts killed 32 extremist militants on Monday, including two IS local leaders, security and medical sources said.

In Iraq's western province of Anbar, Iraqi warplanes carried out an airstrike on a house which was used by IS suicide bombers in Soufiyah district in the eastern part of the provincial capital city of Ramadi, some 110 km west of Baghdad, a provincial security source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.(Iraq-IS)

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TRIPOLI -- Libya's internationally recognized parliament on Monday voted to reject the government of national accord which was proposed under a UN-sponsored agreement to end the country's political division.

At a session at the parliament headquarter in the eastern city of Tubrug on Monday, 89 out of 104 members voted against the newly formed government.(Libya-UN) Endi