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Xinhua world news summary at 0130 GMT, Aug. 29

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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group announced on Sunday a definitive ceasefire starting at midnight.

"As commander of all FARC military fronts, I order all our units and each of our fighters to definitively cease fire and fighting against the Colombian state starting at 2400 hours tonight," top FARC leader Timoleon "Timochenko" Jimenez told reporters in Havana, Cuba, where peace talks between the two sides were taking place. (Colombia-FARC)

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LONDON -- As British Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to head to China for the upcoming G20, she will first hold a critical cabinet meeting with her top ministers at Chequers, the country retreat home for British prime ministers.

Reports Sunday said May intends to reinforce her clear Brexit stance following Britain's June 23 referendum decision that the country will leave the European Union (EU). (Britain-EU-Brexit)

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ANKARA -- Turkish President Recep Erdogan vowed on Sunday to fight all terrorist groups including the Islamic State (IS), the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) with its Syrian offshoots and the Gulen organization that carried out a recent failed coup.

The Turkish army's operation in Syria is aimed at giving people who fled the IS-controlled areas a chance to return home, Erdogan told a rally of his supporters in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep. (Turkey-Syria-Anti-terror)

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CAIRO -- At least 12 people were killed and two others injured Sunday in a massive road accident between a passenger microbus and another vehicle at a desert highway in Upper Egypt, official MENA news agency reported.

The crash took place due to overspeed near the entrance to Sohag International Airport at Cairo-Aswan desert highway, where nine ambulances rushed to the scene and moved the dead bodies and wounded people to nearby hospitals. (Egypt-Accident) Endi