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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Nov. 8

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Six voters in Dixville Notch, a tiny town in the northeast of U.S. state of New Hampshire, cast their ballots just after midnight on Tuesday, kicking off the quadrennial presidential elections in the country.

All the six voters gathered at a polling station shortly after 2300 EST (0400 GMT) on Monday for lottery drawing, which would choose the first voter. (US-Presidential Election)

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PARIS -- Suspected Belgian extremist Osama Attar, 32, is considered by Belgian investigators to be the sole coordinator between the attacks in Paris and Brussels in November 2015 and March 2016 respectively, French daily newspaper Le Monde reported Tuesday.

According to Le Monde, the extremist went under the assumed name Abu Ahmad. One of the terror suspects that Attar sent to Europe identified Attar on a photo board shown to him by investigators. (France-Belgium-Terrorism)

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SEOUL -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday agreed with the parliament speaker to accept a new prime minister nominated by a parliamentary agreement.

President Park met with National Assembly speaker Chung Se-kyun, saying in the televised meeting that she will accept a new prime minister, proposed by an agreement between ruling and opposition parties, and let him govern the cabinet actually. (S.Korea-President-Scandal)

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BERLIN -- The German Federal Public Prosecutor arrested in German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia five people who are suspected of supporting the "Islamic State" (IS) militant group, the authority announced on Tuesday.

The five suspects were accused of having formed a supra-regional "Salafist-jihadist" network, within which the accused Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah A. had assumed the central leadership position. (Germany-IS Recruiters) Endi