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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Aug. 3

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Five people were killed in a fatal bus crash in the U.S. state of California early Tuesday, local authority said.

A charter bus heading form South California to the north crashed into a sign pole about 3:35 a.m. local time (1035 GMT) on Highway 99 in Merced County, said the California Highway Patrol. (US-Bus Crash)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday called Donald Trump "unfit" to be U.S. president amid bipartisan outcry following the Republican presidential nominee's feud with the family of a fallen U.S. Muslim soldier.

"I think the Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president," said Obama here at a press conference. "I said so last week and he keeps on proving it." (US-Election-Trump)

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ROME -- Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said Tuesday that Italy's judges did their jobs by the constitution in a case to investigate a son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The words of Renzi came after Erdogan said earlier a money-laundering probing into his son Bilal in Italy might pose a threat to bilateral relations. (Turkey-Italy)

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SEOUL -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired one ballistic missile into east waters from its west region at about 7:50 a.m. local time, Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday citing South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). (DPRK-Ballistic Missile) Endi