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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Nov. 26

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Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro died late Friday at the age of 90, said his brother Raul Castro, the current leader of Cuba.

"With deep sorrow I report to the Cuban people that our beloved leader Fidel Castro passed away at 10:29 p.m.(0329 GMT Saturday) on Friday," said Raul Castro in a statement broadcast on Radio Reloj. (Cuba-Fidel-Death)

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DAMASCUS -- The Syrian army and allied fighters fully recaptured a key rebel-held neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo on Saturday, following intense battles with the rebel groups, a military source told Xinhua.

The military forces retook the Masaken Hanano area, following battles with the rebels' Jaish al-Fateh, or the Army of Conquest, during which assorted kinds of weapons were used amid artillery shelling that targeted the rebels' supply lines in the area, the source said on condition of anonymity. (Syria-Aleppo-Recapture)

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WELLINGTON -- Five people are dead and three are missing after a small boat got into trouble in the Kaipara Harbour, north of Auckland, New Zealand police said Saturday.

Eleven people were on the vessel when it was reported missing, sparking a major search and rescue operation. (New Zealand-Boat accident)

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MOGADISHU -- More than 10 people were killed in a bomb explosion which hit a market on Saturday in Mogadishu near a former Somalia air force academy in Mogadishu, police have said.

Police sources said most of the victims of the explosion were civilians and they were yet to establish the number of those injured. (Somalia-Market explosion) Endi