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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Aug. 6

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China has donated about 6,600 metric tons of Chinese rice to Malawi in response to calls for emergency food assistance for 6.5 million starving Malawians.

Chinese Ambassador to Malawi, Wang Shiting, made the symbolic donation to Malawi President Peter Mutharika at Kamuzu Palace in the capital, Lilongwe on Thursday. (Malawi-China Rice)

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LONDON -- London Metropolitan Police announced Friday that Zakaria Bulhan, the man suspected of killing U.S. tourist Darlene Horton in a stabbing rampage in central London, has been charged with murder.

According to the police, the 19-year-old Norwegian citizen is of Somali descent and moved to the UK at the age of five. (Britain-London-Stabbing)

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TEHRAN -- A blast in a gas pipeline in southern Iranian port city of Genaveh killed one and injured three in early hours of Saturday, local media reported.

The injured have been taken to the hospital and one of them was in critical condition, parliamentary member Abolhamid Khedri told the semi-official Mehr news agency. (Iran-Gas Explosion)

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KHARTOUM -- Four people died and six others injured at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Sudan's South Darfur State due to heavy rain, Sudan Tribune reported Friday.

"The heavy rainfall during the past three days has left great loss in lives and properties, which created difficult humanitarian conditions at the IDP camps," Adam Abdalla, deputy chairman of the IDPs, was quoted as saying. (Sudan-Heavy-Rainfall)

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DAMASCUS -- Extremist rebels failed on Friday to storm a military base and open a supply route in Syria's northern province of Aleppo, according to a military source.

The rebels of Jaish al-Fateh, or the Conquer Army, failed to capture the Artillery College, following a wide-scale offensive they launched on Friday targeting that facility in southern Aleppo countryside, said the source on condition of anonymity. (Syria-Aleppo-Rebels) Endi