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Xinhua World News Summary at 0030 GMT, Sept. 10

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reached on Saturday a landmark agreement which would see both countries greatly enhance cooperation in a bid to end the five-year-old Syrian conflict.

According to Kerry, who spoke first after day-long discussions with his Russian counterpart, the plan aims to rekindle a nation-wide cessation of hostilities beginning at sundown on Sept. 12, allowing life-saving humanitarian aid to reach civilians in need.

If the truce is respected for seven days, Washington and Moscow are then expected to increase military cooperation, including working on strategies targeting terrorist groups operating on Syrian soil.(US-Russia-Syria)

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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN Security Council on Friday condemned the latest nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), saying it is a clear violation of Security Council resolutions.

The DPRK's state-run television reported early Friday that the country had conducted a nuclear warhead explosion test. It was Pyongyang's fifth nuclear test, eight months after the last one.(UN-DPRK-Nuclear Test)

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MALAW -- Fifteen people, including children, were killed and 40 others injured in a vehicle pile-up in the northern city of Mzuzu in Malawi Friday evening, hospital authorities confirmed.

The accident involved a lorry carrying passengers, two commuter minibuses and a tipper belonging to a construction company.(Malawi-Road Accident)

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BAGHDAD -- At least 11 people were killed and 29 others wounded in two car bombs at a busy mall in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a police source said on Saturday local time.

The attack occurred shortly before Friday midnight when a booby-trapped car detonated at the car park of al-Nakhil Mall in Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad, while a suicide bomber blew up his explosive-laden car at the busy street outside the mall building.(Iraq-blast)

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WASHINGTON -- Early voting for the 2016 U.S. presidential election kicked off on Friday in North Carolina, ushering in a two-month period of advance voting before the final results will be tallied on Election Day on Nov. 8.

Thirty-seven U.S. states plus the District of Columbia allow voters to cast a ballot ahead of Election Day without having to offer an excuse to do so. (US-Election-Early Voting)

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COTONOU -- Three people were killed and some 60 others injured in an explosion Thursday at a waste-burning site in Benin's largest city Cotonou, the country's health minister Seydou Alassane said Friday.

Philippe Hossou, president of a local youth association, however said that nearly 100 people were killed and 200 others suffering severe burns in the blast at the Tori-Avame landfill site, located 30 km north of Cotonou.(Benin-Blast) Endi