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Xinhua World News Summary at 0030 GMT, Aug. 31

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Nearly 30 out of the 14,900 deleted emails recently recovered by the FBI in U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's email setup probe may involve the 2012 attack on Benghazi, Libya, State Department lawyers said at a hearing on Tuesday.

Besides the cache of 30,000 emails Clinton voluntarily turned over to the State Department in 2014, the FBI has uncovered these previously undisclosed documents to or from Clinton when she served as the U.S. Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta was told.(U.S.-Clinton-Email)

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BRASILIA -- The impeachment trial of Brazilian suspended president Dilma Rousseff entered the final stretch on Tuesday morning, with the defense and prosecution set to present their closing arguments.

The legislators will vote on whether or not to impeach Rousseff on Wednesday to avoid extending Tuesday's session through the night.(Brazil-Rousseff-Impeachment)

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BAGHDAD -- At least two people were killed and 10 others injured on Tuesday in two bomb attacks, including a suicide bombing, in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

An attack occurred in the evening when a suicide bomber wearing explosive vest detonated himself at the crowded Darwish Intersection in Eilam neighborhood in southern Baghdad, leaving at least two people killed and eight others injured.(Iraq-Baghdad)

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DAMASCUS -- A Kurdish-led rebel group said it had reached a ceasefire agreement with Turkish military forces on Tuesday, in a bid to bring a temporary truce to a contested area in northern Syria.

In a statement, the Jarablus Military Council (JMC), which is backed by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said the ceasefire agreement was reached with the Turkish army under the mediation of the U.S.-led anti-terror coalition.(Syria-Turkey-Kurds)

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MOGADISHU -- The death toll from the car bomb attack on SYL Hotel near the presidential palace in the restive Mogadishu on Tuesday has risen to 22 while 30 others were injured, emergency service operators confirmed.

Abdulkadir Andirahman Haji Aden, head of the city's Amiin ambulance service, said some security officers including five women were among those who were killed when a car exploded near the presidential palace in the capital city.(Mogadishu-Explosion) Endit