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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, May 30

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U.S. billionaire Donald Trump's frankness about supporting different policies on whites and blacks ruined decades of work of party leaders to hide the "white rage": the deep-seated determination to block black progress in the United States.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, according to a report posted Sunday by the website www.salon.com, is reluctant to deny an endorsement from Klansman David Duke, who describes himself a "racial realist" and advocates racial segregation. ( USA-Trump-Racism)

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MOSCOW -- Heavy rains have damaged 430 houses and several infrastructure projects in Russia's southern Republic of Adygea, a local official said Monday.

"Fifty-four units of equipment are working right now in the settlement of Maikop City ... which suffered the most. Water pumping is ongoing there and a commission is evaluating the damage," Rashid Manapov, chairman of Adygea's Committee for Civil Defense and Emergencies, was quoted by Interfax as saying. (Russia-Rain)

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KUWAIT CITY -- Kuwait's supreme court on Monday upheld the death sentence handed down to the main suspect of last year's deadly bombing of a Shiite mosque, the state news agency KUNA reported.

The court confirmed the verdict of the Kuwaiti appeals court sentencing to death Abdulrahman Sabah Edan, who drove the suicide bomber to the Shiite Imam al-Sadiq mosque in June last year. (Kuwait-Bombing-Sentence)

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ANKARA -- Turkey said Monday that it launched artillery strikes on Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria's Alepp and Iraq, killing at least 28 terrorists.

In a statement, the Turkish General Staff said 58 positions in Aleppo were hit in cross-border artillery Sunday, and two bomb-laden vehicles were destroyed. (Turkey-IS)

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SEOUL -- South Korea's military on Monday said it was tracking the possible ballistic missile launch by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) after a Japanese broadcaster's report on the launch possibility.

An official at South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) told Xinhua on the phone that it was trailing the signs of the DPRK's ballistic missile launch and has made complete preparations for possible launches. (S.Korea-DPRK) Endi