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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Feb. 22

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Somalia's new president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, widely known as Farmajo, was inaugurated on Wednesday at a colorful ceremony attended by regional leaders who pledged support for the new government.

African leaders from Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Ethiopia attended the ceremony, which was held at the fortified Mogadishu International Airport. (Somalia-President)

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NICOSIA -- Turkish Cypriots pulled out of negotiations aimed at ending the four decades-old division of Cyprus, government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said on Wednesday.

He said on his Twitter account that the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative and Head of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) Elisabeth Spehar conveyed to Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades the decision of Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci not to attend a meeting scheduled for Thursday. (Cyprus-Turkey-Negotiation)

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LOS ANGELES -- SpaceX's unmanned Dragon cargo spacecraft has missed Wednesday morning's planned docking with the International Space Station (ISS), said U.S. space agency NASA.

An abort was triggered by onboard computers on Dragon at 3:25 a.m. EST (0825 GMT) after recognizing an incorrect value in data about the location of the space station. (US-SpaceX)

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SHARAN, Afghanistan -- At least three people lost their lives and 22 others were injured Wednesday as a motorbike bomb struck a bazaar in Paktika province in eastern Afghanistan, a provincial government spokesman said.

The explosion took place in Jani Khil district, spokesman Mohammad Rahman Ayaz said. (Afghanistan-Bomb)

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ADEN, Yemen -- The Deputy Chief of Staff of Yemen's armed forces, Major General Ahmed Saif Al Yafei, was killed during armed confrontations with the Shiite Houthi rebels in the Red Sea coast city of Mocha on Wednesday, a government official told Xinhua.

The Shiite Houthi rebels fired a missile that targeted armed forces loyal to Yemen's internationally recognized President Abdu-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in the Red Sea coast city of Mocha, causing several casualties, the government source said on condition of anonymity. (Yemen-Rebels) Endi