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Xinhua world news summary at 0100 GMT, Nov. 3

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Kenya's anti-terrorism police on Wednesday arrested a male university student in the coastal city of Mombasa over links with the Islamist State militant group.

Officers acting on intelligence report raided the student's residence in a Mombasa suburb and caught Hassan Kassim. (Kenya-IS-Radicalized Students)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday appeared to criticize Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey's decision to disclose new development of FBI's probe into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's email practices 11 days before the election.

In his first comments on the FBI's announcement that rocked the presidential campaign, Obama did not criticize Comey directly in his interview with NowThis News. However, Obama did not shy away from venting his frustration. (US-2016 Election)

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DAMASCUS -- The Syrian army announced on Wednesday a 10-hour-long "humanitarian pause" that is scheduled to go into force on Friday, according to state news agency SANA.

The general-command of the Syrian army said it had decided to observe a "humanitarian pause" on Friday from 9.00 a.m. until 7.00 p.m. local time (0700-1700 GMT), to give civilians and rebels also a chance to leave rebel-held areas in eastern Aleppo city. (Syria-Humanitarian Pause)

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BERLIN -- A Syrian man suspected of being a member of a foreign terrorist organization was arrested, the State Criminal Police Office in Berlin announced on their twitter account on Wednesday night.

The man, according to his own statement, was 27 years old, and has been in Germany since 2015. He was arrested in an apartment in the district of Schoeneberg in Berlin. (Germany-Syrian Suspect) Endi