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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, June 29

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Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Wednesday blamed the Islamic State for the bombing attacks that killed 36 people at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport on Tuesday night.

Addressing the press at the airport, the premier said the attacks were carried out by three suicide bombers and all of them blew themselves up. All flights were forced to be suspended. (Turkey-Airport explosions)

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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN General Assembly on Tuesday elected Kazakhstan as a non-permanent member of UN Security Council in a second round of vote, following the election of Ethiopia, Bolivia, and Sweden.

The 193-member General Assembly has been voting to elect five non-permanent members of the 15-nation council on Tuesday. A two-thirds majority of 129 votes is needed for a member state to be elected. (UN-Security Council elections)

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LONDON -- The successor to the current British Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to be revealed on Sept. 9, a week later than originally planned.

The Conservative Party said Monday that Cameron's successor should be announced on Sept. 2. But the party's board suggested on Tuesday an extra week was needed to make a decision. (Britain-PM-Successor)

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CAIRO -- The data files from the crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 were sent back to Egypt on Tuesday, after one of the flight data recorder was fixed in France, the Egyptian investigation committee said in a statement.

The data files from the flight data recorder (FDR) have been transferred to Cairo to extract and analyze the information at the Central Department for Aviation Accidents of the Ministry of Civil Aviation of Egypt, according to the statement. (EgyptAir-Blackbox) Endi