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Xinhua world news summary at 0045 GMT, July 19

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A person was shot dead by police at the Antalya Airport and a deputy mayor was seriously wounded in Istanbul on Monday, according to witnesses and local media.

The gunfire inside Istanbul's municipal building was adding to a sense of chaos in a metropolis still smarting from a failed military coup.(Turkey-Clashes)

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MANILA -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday his administration will not honor international agreements which bind the country to limit its greenhouse emissions.

Duterte believed that wealthy countries were "trying to stymie us with an agreement". (Philippines-Carbon Emissions)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least seven people were killed and two others injured when a bomb went off near a vehicle of tribal elders in Pakistan's northwest Upper Dir district on Monday, officials said.(Pakistan-Bomb)

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WASHINGTON -- World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Monday announced that American economist Paul Romer will succeed Kaushik Basu as chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank.

Romer, currently a professor at New York University (NYU) and director of NYU's Marron Institute of Urban Management, wins the appointment for for his "deep commitment to tackling poverty and inequity and finding innovative solutions" that the World Bank can take to scale. (World Bank-Chief Economist)

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MUNICH -- Four passengers were wounded in an axe attack by a man aboard a regional train near Wuerzburg in the southern German state of Bavaria on Monday night, local police have confirmed.

Three of the wounded were in critical condition, German media Focus Online reported, quoting police sources. The perpetrator was reportedly shot dead by police. His motive remains unclear.(Germany-Munich-Attack)

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LONDON -- British lawmakers on Monday agreed by 472 votes to 117 to replace the country's submarine-based Trident nuclear missile system, a multi-billion pound project to maintain the country's military status, after Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

Theresa May, making her first appearance in parliament as prime minister, led the debate to pave the way for the building of four nuclear ballistic submarines, its Trident system.(Britain-Trident)

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SEOUL -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday test-fired three short-range ballistic missiles in a show of force against the decision between Seoul and Washington to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) to South Korean soil.

Yonhap news agency quoted South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) as saying that the DPRK fired off three ballistic missiles, which are believed to have been a Scud-C type, from the western region of Hwangju in North Hwanghae province between 5:45 a.m. and 6:05 a.m. local time.(S.Korea-DPRK-Missile) Endi