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Xinhua world news summary at 0100 GMT, May 11

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The latest wave of violent anti-government protests in Venezuela raised the death toll to 39 on Wednesday, prosecutors said.

"Miguel Castillo died during a demonstration at Las Mercedes," the Public Ministry (MP) reported, referring to the shopping district in the capital Caracas. (Venezuela-Violence)

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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that some 622,000 people have been displaced from the north Iraqi city of Mosul since the start of the military operations by the Iraqi government forces to drive out the terrorist Islamic State (IS) fighters, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here Wednesday.

Since the beginning of the Mosul military operations in October 2016, some 622,000 people have been cumulatively displaced from the area, Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here. (UN-Mosul)

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PARIS -- Outgoing French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday said he accepted the resignation of the current government led by Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, according to a statement from the Elysee Palace.

"I took note of your resignation and that of your government in accordance with the republic's tradition and after the Constitutional Council announced the presidential election's official results," the presidency announced. (France-Cabinet Resignation)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump invited newly-elected South Korean President Moon Jae-in to visit Washington at an early date and Moon accepted the invitation, the White House said Wednesday.

On Wednesday, Trump spoke with Moon to congratulate him and the South Korean people on "his great election victory and their peaceful, democratic transition of power," according to a White House statement. (U.S.-S.Korea-Ties) Endi