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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Sept. 9

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At least four police officers were injured after a police aircraft crashed in the capital Nairobi on Thursday.

Nairobi County police commander Japheth Koome confirmed the incident at Nairobi's sprawling Mathare slums after a brand new Agusta Westland 139 police helicopter crashed.

Koome said the chopper was overflying Mathare slums when it crashed within the National Youth Service field at about 4:00 p.m. local time.

(Kenya-Aircraft-Crash)

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PARIS -- French police arrested three "radicalized and fanatical" women in southeast Paris Thursday evening for their alledged connection with an abandoned car in central Paris that contained several gas cylinders.

The women were arrested during an anti-terrorism operation, said French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.

The suspects, respectively aged 19, 23 and 39, were "likely preparing violent and imminent attacks," he added. (France-Terror Attacks)

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CHICAGO -- Ford said on Thursday that it is recalling an additional 1.5 million cars from its U.S. and Mexican markets after complaints of faulty vehicle doors that could swing open while the vehicles are still moving.

According to a Ford statement on its website. With an earlier recall of nearly 830,000 cars, the total of recalled Ford vehicle in North America this year reached nearly 2.4 million units. (US-Ford-Recall)

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DAMASCUS -- Syria's Jaish al-Fateh rebel coalition announced the death of its general commander in an airstrike in northern Syria on Thursday, pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV said.

The group's general commander in the Aleppo province, known as Abu Omar Saraqeb, was killed among other rebel commanders when an airstrike targeted their gathering place in the countryside of the northern province of Aleppo. (Syria-Rebel Leader)

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ANKARA -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held a phone call late Thursday, and agreed to continue efforts to achieve a truce in Aleppo, Syria, the Turkish Presidency said in a statement.

The two leaders discussed Turkish-Russia bilateral ties as well as the latest developments in Syria, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. (Turkey-Russia-Syria-Ceasefire) Endi