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Xinhua world news summary at 1600 GMT, July 31

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Munich police said on early Saturday evening that the shopping center and train station, temporarily closed due to bomb alarm, have been reopened, because the alarm is false.

Munich police reported initially that they had to evacuate a shopping center and a train station after a "bomb threat." (Germany-Munich-False Alarm)

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HOUSTON -- U.S. Texas Department of PUBLIC Safety has confirmed that 16 people were killed on Saturday morning after a hot air balloon caught on fire and crashed near Lockhart, a city in the central part of the U.S. state of Texas.

The accident occurred shortly after 7:40 a.m. local time (1240 GMT) on Saturday near Lockhart, a city about 48 km south of the Lone Star state capital of Austin, when the hot air balloon with at least 16 people on board crashed into a pasture, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement on Saturday. (US-Houston-Hot Air Balloon Crash)

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SAN FRANCISCO -- A gunman attacked a gathering of young adults early Saturday at a suburban home of Seattle, a city in northwestern United States, killing three people and wounding another.

The shooting happened around midnight in the upscale neighborhood of Mukilteo, a waterfront town of about 20,000 people, 40 kilometers north of Seattle. (US-Seattle-Shooting)

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LOCKHART -- One person was killed and three others were wounded earlier Sunday morning after a shooting happened in downtown Austin, capital city of the southern U.S. state of Texas.

Austin police said that after receiving reports of gunshots in the crowded entertainment area on Sixth Street and San Jacinto Boulevard just shortly after 2:00 a.m. local time (0700 GMT), police rushed to the site to discover five people shot, according to local TV station ABC13. (US-Texas-Shooting) Endi