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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, July 4

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Up to 126 people were killed and some 152 others wounded in bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source said.

This is the bloodiest attack this year in the country where the army are fighting against the Islamic State militants. (Iraq-Bomb Attack)

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NEW YORK -- The explosives that severely injured a young man Sunday in New York's Central Park was likely an "experiment with fireworks or explosives," authorities said.

Commanding Officer of the NYPD Bomb Squad Mark Torre told a press conference that the Fourth of July holiday was a typical time of the year that the squad dealt with a lot of homemade explosives experimentations. (U.S.-Explosion)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least 43 people including eight security personnel were killed, over 40 injured and scores of others went missing in flash flood triggered by heavy rains in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province on Sunday, local media and officials said.

The provincial National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said that Chitral district of the province was the worst hit area where 31 people were killed in the flash flood. (Pakistan-Floods)

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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-New Government) Endit