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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Dec. 18

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At least 14 people were killed and 41 others wounded in a traffic accident along a highway in Afghanistan's western Farah province on Sunday, police said.

"A long-distance bus was travelling from western Herat province en route for the capital of Kabul but the ill-fated vehicle crashed with a parked cargo truck roughly at midday in Gulistan district, Farah province," a local traffic police officer told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Bus Crash)

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PARIS -- Seven candidates will compete for the French left-wing primary in January to win the nomination for next year's presidential election, the organizers said on Saturday.

Four people from the ruling Socialist Party will run in the competition including ex-prime minister Manuel Valls and three former members of his executive staff ex-economy minister Arnaud Montebourg, Benoit Hamon and Vincent Peillon, both had managed education portfolio. (France-Left-wing Primary)

- - - - ' ALEPPO, Syria -- A total of 75 busses entered eastern Aleppo city in northern Syria on Sunday to evacuate the remaining rebels, a day after the suspended evacuation was resumed, a military source said.

The busses entered the neighborhoods of Zibdiyeh, Salahuddien, Mashhad and Ansari in southeastern Aleppo to evacuate the remaining rebels and their families through the Ramouseh road toward rebel-held areas in the southwestern countryside of Aleppo, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. (Syria-Aleppo)

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ADEN, Yemen -- The Islamic State (IS) group on Sunday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that struck a gathering of pro-government forces in Yemen's temporary capital of Aden, leaving about 49 soldiers killed.

An online statement by the IS revealed in twitter said that "more than 70 apostates were killed in the jihadist attack launched by our martyr against soldiers in Aden." (Yemen-Aden-IS Attack)

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Uber has no plan of ending a new test of its self-driving vehicles in San Francisco even though California regulators see the service was illegal, the BBC reported Saturday.

The company started testing the vehicles this week but the California regulator warned that the firm must have a test permit. (US-Uber-Test) Endi