Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, May 10

U.S. President Donald Trump fired James Comey, the director of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the White House said in a statement Tuesday.

"Today, President Donald J. Trump informed FBI Director James Comey that he has been terminated and removed from office," the statement said. (FBI-Comey)

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MEXICO CITY -- The death toll from a fireworks explosion in central Mexico on Monday night has climbed to 14 with 22 more injured, the state government of Puebla announced Tuesday.

In a statement on Twitter, the regional government said the explosion went off at 9:30 p.m. in a fireworks warehouse, ahead of a village festival on May 15. (Mexico-Fireworks-Explosion)

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SEATTLE -- A section of an underground storage tunnel in a plutonium uranium extraction (PUREX) plant collapsed at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation early Tuesday morning, prompting authorities to declare emergency at the Washington state site.

Officials were alerted of a cave-in of a 20 feet, or 6 meter, section of a tunnel that is hundreds of feet long. Located next to the PUREX in the center of the Hanford site, it is used to store contaminated materials.

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SEOUL -- Liberal Moon Jae-in won the South Korean presidential by-election as he gained votes enough to confirm victory, vote count results showed Wednesday.

With 91.3 percent of votes counted as of 3:07 a.m. local time the national election commission. Hong Joon-pyo of the conservative Liberty Korea Party won 24.8 percent. Even if the remaining uncounted votes go to Hong, he will not defeat Moon. It confirmed Moon's victory with certainty. (South Korea-Presidential Election) Endi