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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Nov. 27

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The Russian military on Sunday reported noticeable progress in the evacuation of civilians in the contested Syrian city of Aleppo, with over 900 civilians having peacefully left the rebel-held area in eastern Aleppo in the last 24 hours.

"Only in the past 24 hours, 903 civilians, including 119 children, have left the militant-held area of Jabal Bidaru," the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation said in a statement. "Eight militants gave up resistance and left the eastern part of the city using the corridors provided by Russia and the Syrian authorities." (Russia-Syria)

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SAN FRANCISCO -- A digital marketing research group has recorded online sales at a record high of 3.34 billion U.S. dollars during the Black Friday shopping spree in the United States.

Adobe Digital Insights (ADI) Saturday said the total represented a 21.6 percent increase from the same day of last year and 290 million dollars above the predicted 3.05 billion dollars sales for the traditional shopping day after Thanksgiving holiday. (U.S.-Black Friday)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein's request for a vote recount is "scam."

"This is a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded, and the results of this election should be respected instead of being challenged and abused," Trump said in a statement. (U.S.-Trump)

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DAMASCUS -- A booby-trapped car ripped through a northern Syrian town near Turkey on Sunday, killing at least one and left many wounded, in what activists said was a blast carried out by the Islamic State (IS) group.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor group said the explosion was the result of a car bomb that went off in the town of al-Rai, which is controlled by the Turkey-backed Euphrates Shield forces, in the countryside of the northern province of Aleppo. (Syria-Blast-Turkey)

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PARIS -- The decisive round of French right-center parties primary started on Sunday and it will send one of the two conservatives, Francois Fillon and Alain Juppe, into the presidential race.

Final opinion polls projected the front-runner Fillon to seize a major lead over veteran Juppe who had been long dominating the vote intentions before the "ultra-liberal" contender reported a surprise lead last Sunday. Endi