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Xinhua world news summary at 0000 GMT, April 8

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A truck rammed into people on a central Stockholm street before crashing into a department store on Friday, with police and witnesses saying three people had died and eight others injured in the incident.

"Sweden has been attacked. Everything indicates that this is a terror attack," Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven told a press conference. Swedish police have arrested a man in the north of Stockholm in an operation on Friday night. (Stockholm-Truck Crash)

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JUBA -- Authorities in South Sudan's Jonglei state said Friday they have registered nearly 200 new cholera infections and 29 deaths since health workers confirmed outbreak of the acute diarrhea disease in February.

Angok Gordon, Jonglei State Minister of Health told Xinhua that official figures from health partners show that 198 cholera cases and 29 deaths have been reported. (South Sudan-Cholera)

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UNITED NATIONS -- A divided UN Security Council met on Friday in emergency session to debate the U.S. cruise missile attack on an airfield in Syria where Washington asserted aircraft were launched to drop chemical weapons on civilians Idlib Province earlier in the week, killing more than 70 people.

At least council members agreed the only solution to the Syrian war was a political one.(UN-Syria) Endi