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Xinhua world news summary at 1600 GMT, Nov. 20

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France's opposition, the center-right parties, started voting in the first round of the primary Sunday to pick their candidate to run in the presidential elections next year.

About 2.8 million conservative voters are expected to cast their ballots from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. local time (0700 GMT to 1800 GMT) on Sunday in 10,228 polling stations across the country. (France-Center Right Parties-Primary)

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LIMA -- Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, met here Saturday and agreed to maintain healthy and steady development of bilateral relations.

Meeting on the sidelines of the 2016 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting, Xi spoke highly of the U.S. president's endeavor in developing ties with China. (Peru-Xi-Obama)

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LOS ANGELES -- Four people were killed in an ambulance plane crash late Friday night in northern Nevada.

According to local media reported, three crew members and a patient on an American Medflight plane taking the patient to a Utah hospital were killed in a crash which happened in Friday evening in Elko, northern part of U.S. Nevada. (U.S.-Plane Crash)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday met with 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney amid speculation that he may offer the former vocal critic of his candidacy a post in the new cabinet.

After their meeting at Trump's private golf club in New Jersey, Romney told reporters briefly that the discussion was "thorough and in-depth", ignoring questions whether he had been offered a cabinet post. (U.S.-Cabinet)

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DAMASCUS -- Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Sunday that his government rejects an idea proposed by the UN special envoy to Syria about an autonomy for the rebels in the eastern part of the northern city of Aleppo.

The idea of establishing an autonomy for the rebels in eastern Aleppo is completely rejected, al-Moallem said in a press conference, following his meeting with the visiting UN envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, who arrived in Damascus earlier on Sunday to discuss his plan. (Syria-Aleppo ) Endi