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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Oct. 8

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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who is joining the competition to be chosen as the conservative presidential nominee, pledged to consult voters on his controversial proposals on immigration and presumed terrorists.

"I will give speech back to popular sovereignty. Hand over to people on such important subjects is to make a choice of democracy," Sarkozy told state-run France 2 TV on Friday. (FRANCE-Presidential Election)

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MOSCOW -- The U.S. accusations of "Russian hackers" are groundless and exploited in the country's presidential election campaign, a senior Russian diplomat said Saturday amid escalating tensions between the two powers.

On Friday, the U.S. intelligence agencies issued a joint statement claiming that Russia was behind the recent hacking of emails from U.S. political organizations in an attempt to interfere in the 2016 elections.

(Russia-US-Hacker)

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YANGON -- U.S. president Barrack Obama has announced lifting economic sanctions on Myanmar, following State Counselor Aung San Sun Kyi's visit to Washington last month, sources in Myanmar said Saturday.

Some dignitaries including business tycoons and former key military figures have been removed from the U. S. blacklist as a result. (US-Myanmar-Sanctions)

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TEHRAN -- National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and the Russian Tatneft signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) here on Saturday for feasibility studies on development of Iran's Deholoran oil field, Iran's Petro-Energy Information Network (SHANA) reported.

Addressing the signing ceremony, Director General of Tatneft Nail Ulfatovich Maganov introduced the capabilities of his company for doing the project and said that his company is active in various oil industry subsidiaries, including the upstream and downstream activities. (Russia-Iran-Oil) Endi