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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Dec. 19

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Russian Defense Ministry experts have recovered flight data recorders of the Il-18 plane that crash-landed in Siberia earlier on Monday, according to the ministry.

"A special Russian Defense Ministry commission is working at the site of the Il-18 emergency landing, and its experts have demounted and recovered onboard recorders for delivery to a specialized laboratory and their inspection," the RIA Novosti news agency quoted a ministry source as saying. (Russia-Crash)

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AMMAN -- Four unidentified gunmen were killed in Jordan's southern Karak city on Sunday night, after they launched a series of attacks and killed 10 people, including a Canadian tourist.

After a five-hour rescue operation, the police freed all the civilians trapped in the Karak Castle, a famous tourist site, where the terrorists took refugee, according to the government spokesperson Mohammad Momani. (Jordan-Attack)

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ALEPPO -- As many as 1,000 rebels and their families evacuated the rebels few remaining strongholds in the northern city of Aleppo overnight, a well-informed source told Xinhua on Monday.

20 busses carrying the rebels and their families evacuated through the Ramouseh crossing south of Aleppo city, after being delayed for hours, the source familiar with the evacuation process said on condition of anonymity. (Syria-Aleppo)

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BEIJING -- During excavations along the Belt and Road, various cutting-edge technologies, including remote-sensing, three dimensional (3D) scanning, virtual reality (VR) and unmanned aerial vehicles are being widely used to help archaeologists get a better idea of the lives of people in ancient times. What's more, China's advanced archaeological methods are now going global. (China-Belt And Road-Archaeology) Endi