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Xinhua world news summary at 1600 GMT, May 22

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Pakistani Foreign Office on Sunday confirmed the killing of the Afghan Taliban top leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor in a Saturday U.S. drone strike in the country's southwest remote area of the Pak-Afghan border region. (Taliban Leader-U.S.Strike-Dead)

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VIENNA -- A gunman killed two people and wounded 11 others at a concert in western Austria before committing suicide, Austrian media reported on Sunday.

The deadly gun shooting took place at around 3:00 a.m. local time (0100GMT) in Austria's western town Nenzing in the state of Vorarlberg, which is not far from the border with Liechtenstein. (Austria-Gun-shooting)

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NICOSIA -- Polling stations opened in Cyprus on Sunday to elect a new 56-member parliament that is expected to reflect public reaction to a three-year austerity program after a near melt-down of the economy in 2013, electoral authorities announced. (Cyprus-Elections)

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SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir -- Six paramilitary troopers including an officer were killed Sunday in a militant ambush in northern eastern state of Manipur, officials said.

The militants ambushed the paramilitary men at in Joubi in Chandel district, about 64 km south of Imphal city, the capital of Manipur. (India-Ambush-Death)

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HO CHI MINH CITY -- A total of 12 people were killed and dozens injured as two coaches collided with a lorry early on Sunday in Vietnam.

Two inter-provincial coaches had a head-on collision and then a lorry crushed into them, triggering a fire which burnt the coaches. (Vietnam-Road Accident-Death Toll) Endi