Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Sept. 22
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Kenya's anti-terrorism police Wednesday arrested three female terror suspects behind the police station attack in Mombasa on Sept. 11.
The police suspected the three to be accomplices of the three women who were shot dead during a foiled attack at the central police station in Mombasa. (Kenya-Terror Suspect)
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ROME -- Rome mayor Virginia Raggi Wednesday announced the Italian capital was withdrawing its bid to host the 2024 Olympic games.
The decision was mainly based on financial and corruption risk concerns. (Italy-Olympic Bid-Withdrawal)
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WASHINGTON -- The extremist group Islamic State (IS) may have fired a shell containing mustard agent onto a Iraqi military base where U.S. troops were present, local media said Wednesday.
No U.S. troops were injured or had shown symptoms of exposure to mustard agent when the shell landed on the Qayarrah air base, about 60 km south of Mosul, the city occupied by IS since June, 2014, according to CNN. (US-IS-Chemical Attack)
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OTTAWA -- All schools students have been safely evacuated Wednesday in Canada's Prince Edward Island province after police received a threat claiming bombs were placed in a number of schools, according to CTV Wednesday afternoon.
The island province has 62 public schools and nearly 20,000 students. (Canada-Schools-Bomb Threat)
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SANAA -- At least 25 people, including children and women, were killed when warplanes from the Saudi-led military coalition hit provincial presidential palace and nearby residential quarter in Yemen's Red Sea port city of al-Hodayda in late night of Wednesday, medics, witnesses and residents said.
"Initial death toll is 25 and 73 others were brought to hospital with various injuries from the airstrikes," a local media told Xinhua. (Yemen-Air Strikes) Endi