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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, May 1

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South Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) leader Julius Malema threatened on Saturday to overthrow President Jacob Zuma by force.

This was the second time in a week that Malema made a threat to overthrow Zuma by force. Malema is the commander-in-chief of the EFF, an opposition party he founded in 2013 and managed to garner 25 seats in Parliament eight months later. (S.Africa-Zuma)

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PARIS -- A Muslim prayer hall was set on fire in Ajaccio, the capital of French Island of Corsica, in early hours of Saturday morning, President Francois Hollande's office said on Saturday.

"An investigation was immediately opened. It should determine as soon as possible the causes of the disaster," the Elysee added in a statement.The perpetrators will be swiftly identified and punished, Hollande pledged, expressing his solidarity with Muslim minority living in the French island. (France-Muslim_fire)

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KHARTOUM -- Seven members of a force entrusted with securing a Chinese oil company have been freed from abduction by the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement in West Kordofan State, the authority said on Saturday.

The seven security guards of China Petro Energy company were abducted in March 2015 in Al-Dabkar area in West Kordofan State, according to Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Service. An official statement said the security forces would deter the outlaws and prevent their bloody and terrorist acts and their repeated violations of human rights. (Sudan-Abduction)

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BAGHDAD -- Up to 24 people were killed and some 38 others wounded on Saturday when a truck bomb detonated at a suburb near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

The attack occurred in the morning when a booby-trapped truck went off at a crowded livestock market in Nahrawan area in southeastern Baghdad. (Iraq-Suicide-Bomb)

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BAGHDAD -- Thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday stormed the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad and took control of the parliament building and surrounding areas, while dozens of lawmakers, officials and employees tried to escape the government district. (Iraq-Protesters-Parliament) Endi