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Xinhua world news summary at GMT 0100, May 21

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Mexican druglord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman will be extradited to the United States, the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced on Friday.

The ministry said it has notified Guzman, who was recently moved to a prison close to the U.S. border, that it had approved an extradition request filed by a federal district court of Texas in the United States. (Mexico-Druglord)

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CARACAS -- Venezuela's National Bolivarian Armed Forces began the military exercises for "Independence 2016," with the main objective of guaranteeing the country's "sovereignty," Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez said on Friday.

The practice aims to strengthen the civil-military union, expand the military plans and implementation, said the minister during an interview with the government-owned television channel Venezolana de Television. (Venezuela-Military Exercise)

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NICOSIA -- Cyprus' district court here started hearing a petition by Egypt for the extradition of an Egyptian man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane to Cyprus in March, court officials said on Friday.

Seif Eldin Mustafa, aged 59, forced the pilot of EgyptAir flight MS-181 from Alexandria to Cairo to land at Larnaca airport on March 29 by brandishing a fake explosives belt. (Cyprus-Hijacker)

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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that more than 5,000 families are reported to have fled Da'esh control in Sirte, a Libyan coastal city, a UN spokesman said here Friday.

Many of them have gone to Bani Walid, Tobruk, Misrata and Tripoli, Stephane Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here. (Libya-Humanity)

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WASHINGTON -- A man brandishing a weapon outside the White House grounds was shot down on Friday afternoon and now is taken into custody, a U.S. Secret Service official confirmed.

The White House went into lockdown after the shooting incident and reopened nearly one hour after. (US-White House-Gunman) Endi