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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Nov. 12

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The Obama administration has given up all hope of enacting the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, just days after a surprise victory of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in U.S. election, local media reported Friday.

Republican congressional leaders had made clear that they wouldn't consider the 12-nation Pacific trade deal in the remainder of President Barack Obama's term, the Wall Street Journal quoted U.S. officials as saying, as Trump had stood against the deal. (US-Obama-TPP)

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SEOUL -- Over 1 million South Koreans staged peaceful rallies across central Seoul on Saturday night to demand President Park Geun-hye step down over a scandal involving her longtime confidante and former aides.

Organizers estimated that the number of participants in the Saturday rally, the third since the scandal came into focus last month, topped 1 million in Seoul alone, according to local media reports. Last Saturday, some 200,000 people turned out in the capital city. (S.Korea-Rallies)

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DAMASCUS -- The Syrian forces have fully recaptured two important areas fallen recently to the rebels during a wide-scale offensive in the country's northern province of Aleppo, state news agency SANA reported on Saturday.

The Syrian forces backed by the Lebanese Hezbollah retook the suburbs of Dahyeit al-Assad and Menyan, which had been overrun by the rebels during a wide-scale offensive on government-controlled areas in western Aleppo late last month. (Syria-Aleppo)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least 30 people were killed and 95 others injured when a bomb went inside a shrine in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan Province on Saturday night, officials said.

Sanaullah Zehri, home minister of Balochistan, said that the blast happened when devotees were preforming Dhamal, a kind of Sufi dance, in the Dargah Shah Noorani shrine of Hub, the town in Khuzdar district of the province. (Pakistan-Blast) Endi