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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, July 20

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UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Tuesday said thousands of people from the conflict-hit South Sudan have fled to Uganda following a recent fighting between rival army factions in the capital, Juba.

In a statement issued here, the agency said a total of 1,326 people crossed into the neighboring Uganda between Friday and Saturday, with 1,633 more arriving on Sunday. (South Sudan-Refugee)

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PARIS -- The National Assembly, France' s lower house of parliament, backed on Wednesday six-month extension of emergency rules to late January 2017 after last week's truck assault in Nice which killed 84 people.

At a predawn vote, 489 lawmakers approved a text to prolong the emergency state by six months while 26 were against and four abstained.

(France-Emergency)

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CLEVELAND, the United States, -- New York billionaire Donald Trump was officially declared as the U.S. Republican Party's presidential nominee on Tuesday.

U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan officially announced Trump's nomination after a state-by-state vote.

"The chair announces that Donald J. Trump, having received a majority of these votes, entitled to be cast at this convention, has been selected as the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States," Ryan said. (US-Republican Party-Trump)

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DUBAI -- The 75-story high Sufala Tower in Dubai caught fire Wednesday in the lower levels of the building, triggering a massive evacuation as civil defense and police were fighting the blaze and cordoning off the nearby streets.

The fire was put off after three hours of fighting operations, the media office of the Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum tweeted. (Dubai-Fire)

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ANKARA -- A total of 30 senior staff of Turkish Parliament have been dismissed from posts over suspected involvement in failed Gulenist coup attempt, pro-government media Daily Sabah reported Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Turkish Higher Board of Education on Wednesday bans all academics from travelling abroad, Turkish national TRT said in its news broadcast. (Turkey- Coup Attempt) Endit