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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Sept. 20

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Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) arrested two "terrorists" with Pakistan nationality in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday. (Iran-Pakistanis-Arrest)

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TIKRIT, Iraq -- Iraqi security forces on Tuesday retook control of seven villages around the town of Shirqat in Salahudin province as part of their operation launched earlier in the day to drive out the Islamic State (IS) militants from the town, provincial security sources said. (Iraq-IS-Forces)

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UNITED NATIONS -- The 71st session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday opened its annual high-level General Debate at the UN headquarters in New York, with a focus on pushing for the world's sustainable development. (UN-Assembly-Debate)

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PARIS -- Eight individuals were arrested in southern France with presumed links to the truck driver who killed 86 people at Bastille Day in Nice, local media reported Tuesday. (France-Truck Driver-Arrests) < - - - -

DAMASCUS -- The Syrian army on Tuesday denied striking aid convoys in the northern province of Aleppo, the Syrian national TV said.

The army said the reports speaking of airstrikes on an aid convoy in the northern countryside of Aleppo were baseless. (Syria-Convoys-Airstrikes)

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GENEVA -- The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Tuesday that aid deliveries set to reach besieged and hard-to-reach areas in war-torn Syria have been temporarily put on hold following an airstrike on a UN/Syrian Arab Red Crescent convoy Monday. (Geneva-Syria-Aid) Endi