Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, May 9

At least six Somali soldiers were killed and several others injured in a landmine blast in Bay region of southwest Somalia on Tuesday, an official said.

Information Minister for Southwest State, Ugaas Hassan told Xinhua the soldiers were killed after their vehicle hit a landmine as they were rushing to help provide reinforcement to regional forces who were engaged in heavy fighting with Al-Shabaab. (Somalia-Blast)

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BERLIN -- German authorities arrested two terror suspects from Syria, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

The two were separately caught in the capital Berlin and the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. (Germany-Terrorism)

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BERLIN -- A German soldier suspected of terror attack planning was arrested, German local media Der Spiegel reported on Tuesday.

Prosecutors disclosed the name as Maximilian T., and said he was suspected of planning xenophobic terror attacks against Germany's migrants. (Germany-Terrorism)

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SEOUL -- Conservative and centrist rivals of Moon Jae-in, a candidate of the liberal Minjoo Party, said they would accept the result of South Korean presidential election in an apparent concession to Moon.

With 9 percent of votes counted as of 10:30 p.m. local time (1330 GMT), Moon garnered 37.5 percent support. (S.Korea-Presidential Election)

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RAMALLAH -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced Tuesday he is ready to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under the U.S. sponsorship for peace making.

Abbas made the remarks in a joint news conference with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Palestine-Israel-Peace Talks) Endi