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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, May 1

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Kenyan authorities confirmed on Monday that five people were killed and an unknown number of others injured in retaliatory attacks between Pokot and Turkana tribesmen in the common border in northwest Kenya. (Kenya-Tribal Fighting)

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PARIS -- Two riot policemen were wounded after protestors participating at May Day rally in Paris hurled projectiles and Molotov cocktails, Paris prefecture said on Monday.

On its twitter account, the prefecture wrote "masked individuals threw projectiles and Molotov cocktails at police. Two riot policemen injured." (France-Protests)

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LONDON -- Three teenage females, two aged 18 and the other aged 19, were arrested Monday by Officers from London's Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command.

Police said they carried out search warrants Monday morning at three addresses in east London. (UK-Terrorism)

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TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stepped up call for changing Japan's pacifist Constitution on Monday, two days ahead of a public holiday commemorating the enforcement of the postwar Constitution 70 years ago. (Japan-Constitutional Change)

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TUNIS -- Two armed militants, including a suicide bomber, were killed on Sunday in a security operation in the city of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia, Prime Minister Youssef Chahed said in a press statement.

A total of four militants were captured alive, a security source on condition of anonymity told Xinhua. (Tunisia-Security Operation) Endit