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Xinhua world news summary at GMT 1530, July 3

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The suicide car bomb attacks at a crowded commercial area in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad early Sunday has killed 79 people and wounded 133 others, an Interior Ministry source said.

"Our latest report said up to 79 people were killed and 133 wounded by the suicide bomb attack in Baghdad's Karrada-Dakhil district," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. (Iraq-Car Bombs)

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DAMASCUS -- Syria's President Bashar al-Assad endorsed on Sunday the new government, which maintained many of the old ministers, according the state news agency SANA.

On June 22, al-Assad issued a decree, tasking Minister of Electricity Imad Khamis with forming the new government, as the new prime minister replacing Wael al-Halqi. (Syria-Assad)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least one man was killed and three others were injured in a hand grenade attack in Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city on Sunday, local Urdu media reported.

The Express News reported that some unknown militants hurled a hand grenade at a shoe shop in the Pishtakhara area of Peshawar, the capital city of the country's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. (Pakistan-Blast)

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KABUL -- Clash between security forces and Taliban militants have left nine militants dead and a dozen others injured in the northern Saripul and Faryab provinces over the past 24 hours, an army spokesman in the northern region, Nasratullah Jamshidi, said Sunday.

According to the official, four militants including a group commanders have been killed in Sayad district of Saripul district and five more insurgents lost their lives in Qaisar district of Faryab province respectively. (Afghanistan-Militant Killing)

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BAGHDAD -- The Islamic State (IS) group on Sunday claimed responsibility for the suicide car bomb attack in Iraqi capital Baghdad that killed at least 79 people and wounded 133 others, the group said in an online statement.

One of the group's suicide bombers, nicknamed Abu Maha al-Iraqi, detonated his car bomb at a crowd of Shiite people in the predominantly Shiite district of Karrada-Dakhil in southern central Baghdad, according to the statement, of which the authenticity could not be independently verified. (Baghdad-IS-Claim) Endi