Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Dec. 5
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Officials in Oakland, California, said the death toll of an overnight fire in a warehouse rose to 33 as of Sunday afternoon.
The worst fire in the history of Oakland, east of San Francisco, took place during an electronic music party in a two-story warehouse converted into a party venue and probably a residence in an industrial neighborhood.
(Oakland-Fire-Warehouse)
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VIENNA -- Greens-backed candidate Alexander Van der Bellen led in the rerun of Austrian presidential election on Sunday, according to a projection by the SORA institute for broadcaster ORF.
The projection showed that Van der Bellen got 53.6 percent of the vote, over 7.2 percent higher than right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) candidate Norbert Hofer's 46.4 percent.
It's highly likely that Van der Bellen has beaten Hofer in the vote, becoming the first president not from the mainstream parties in Austria since the end of World War II. (Austria-Candidate-Election)
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KHARTOUM -- The UN refugee agency said Sunday that the number of South Sudanese refugees in Sudan has reached 263,000, with October 2016 marking the highest monthly arrival rate.
"About 263,000 South Sudanese refugees have arrived in Sudan since Dec. 2013," said the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) in a statement. "With continuing insecurity in South Sudan, a steady influx of new refugees is expected throughout December and into next year." (Sudan-South Sudan-Refugees)
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ALGIERS -- Algerian counter-terrorism units on Sunday dismantled a handmade bomb found at a school in the southwest province of Bechar, local media reported.
According to Ennahar TV, the bomb as discovered by the pupils in a toilet around midday, and they notified the school administration, who called the police. (Algeria-Bomb-School) Endi