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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Jan. 19

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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday called for building a community of shared future for mankind and achieving shared and win-win development amid growing challenges and risks.

While expounding his vision of mankind's future in a keynote speech at the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), the leader of the world's second largest economy championed a world of lasting peace, common security for all and common prosperity, as well as an open, inclusive world, and a clean, beautiful world. (China-Xi Jinping-Geneva)

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LA PAZ -- The death toll from a highway crash in rural Bolivia has climbed to 14, the director of national transit for the police department, Fernando Blanco, said on Wednesday.

The incident, which occurred late Tuesday afternoon and involved a passenger bus that turned over, also left some 32 people injured, Blanco told reporters at a press conference in La Paz. (Bolivia-Crash-Bus)

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MOSCOW -- Russia and Turkey have started their first joint air operation against militants of the Islamic State (IS) in Syria's northern province of Aleppo, a senior Russian military officer said here on Wednesday.

"The air operation, agreed with the Syrian side, involves nine Russian combat planes and eight Turkish jets," Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoy, Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff, told a news briefing. (Russia-Turkey-IS)

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DAMASCUS -- The Islamic State (IS) group said it made new progress on Wednesday in the battles against the Syrian army in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour, capturing strategic locations.

IS' Amaq news agency said the IS militants captured the electricity company building and its vicinity in the mountain area, northwest of the Deir al-Zour airbase, where the IS fighters took key areas around it. (Syria-IS-Amaq)

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LUSAKA -- Zambia's Immigration Department said Wednesday that it had arrested at least 45 illegal immigrants in Lusaka, the country's capital.

Namati Nshinka, the department's spokesperson said the illegal immigrants were arrested after an operation conducted in four townships of the city last Friday and Saturday. (Zambia-Immigrant-Arrest) Endi