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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, June 3

Xinhua, June 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

The U.S. economy added fewer jobs in May, but the unemployment rate dropped to 4.7 percent, the lowest level since November 2007. (US-Economy-Unemployment)

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TRIPOLI -- Bodies of at least 117 migrants were washed ashore in the western Libyan city of Zwarah after their boat sank on the way to Europe, Libyan navy spokesman revealed on Friday. (Libya-Migrants-Bodies)

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ATHENS -- Three people were found dead and 302 more rescued from a sinking vessel during an operation off the south coast of Crete island on Friday, the Greek Coast Guard said. (Greece-Vessel-Sinking)

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ATHENS -- Fifteen refugees were injured in clashes that broke out between different ethnic groups in a hotspot on Samos island on Thursday night, the Greek government's spokesperson of the Refugee Coordination Crisis Management Body said Friday. (Greece-Island-Clashes)

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BAMAKO -- The head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) Mahamat Saleh Annadif on Thursday visited the Chinese contingent based in the northern Malian town of Gao, after a terrorist attack that left one of them dead. (Mali-UN-Chinese Contingent)

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YANGON-- More than 3,900 people have been displaced due to renewed conflict between armed groups in northern Shan state of Myanmar in May, according to a report of United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOHCA) in Myanmar Friday. (Myanmar-UN-Conflict)

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MOSCOW -- All workers were evacuated to the ground from a coal mine that was on fire in southwestern Russia's Kemerovo region on Friday, local media reported. (Russia-Fire-Evacuation) Endi