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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Dec. 30

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An accident involving a passenger bus and a truck in the early hours of Thursday has left 11 people killed and nine seriously injured in the northern state of Chihuahua, according to police. (Mexico-Traffic-Accident)

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WASHINGTON -- The White House on Thursday announced tough sanctions against Russian entities and individuals over alleged hacking during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (US-Russia-Sanction)

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JAKARTA -- An earthquake measuring 6.6 Richter scale jolted East Nusa Tenggara of central Indonesia earlier Friday, the meteorology and geophysics agency said. (Indonesia-Earthquake)

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MOSUL, Iraq -- Iraqi security forces on Thursday recaptured a neighborhood and two villages, killing up to 200 militants of extremist Islamic State (IS) group, as troops launched the second phase of offensive to drive out IS militants from their major stronghold in the city of Mosul, the Iraqi military said. (Iraq-Mosul-IS)

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MOGADISHU -- Somalia's Al-Shabaab militants launched a deadly attack at a town, some 30 km south of Mogadishu on Thursday evening, a military commander told Xinhua.

The militants who are said to have driven into the town with heavy artillery rampaged Afgooye town before they were pushed out by the forces.(Somalia-Al-Shabaab-Afgooye) Endi