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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Aug. 26

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Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Friday declared a "total war" against terrorism, as the country has come under repeated deadly attacks in recent days.

"Let our nation know that we have opened a total war against these terrorist groups," Yildirim said at a joint press conference in Istanbul with his Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borissov. (Turkey-Fighting-Terrorism)

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ANKARA -- The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack that killed 11 Turkish police officers and wounded 78 people in Turkey's southern province of Sirnak earlier on Friday.

In a statement published on an affiliated website, the PKK also said that it did not target Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of Turkey's main opposition party, in an attack in the northeastern province of Artvin on Thursday. (Turkey-PKK)

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DARAYA, Syria -- The first batch of Syrians started on Friday to leave the besieged town of Daraya under the new deal, which allows evacuation of rebel fighters and civilians.

Military vehicles were waiting to escort the buses filled with residents out of the city, whose landscape is similar to those in the movies depicting the Armageddon, or the doom's day. (Syria-Daraya-Evacuation)

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PARIS -- The Council of State, France's highest administrative court, on Friday suspended a ban on full-body Muslim swimsuits in a Villeneuve-Loube, south France that has fuelled political debate and allegations of racism and stigmatization.

The French Human Rights League and the French Council of the Muslim Faith had earlier appealed the decision by the southern town to ban the burkini. (France-Burkini Ban)

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MOGADISHU -- Al-Shabaab militants detonated a car bomb and stormed a beach restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday evening, killing at least seven people and injuring several others.

Benadir region police commissioner Bishar Abshir Gedi told reporters on Friday that two police officers and five civilians lost their lives in the attack, adding "the number of injured was more." (Somalia-Al-Shabaab) Endit