Xinhua World News Summary at 1530 GMT, May 14

Centrist Emmanuel Macron was sworn in as the eighth president of the French Fifth Republic in a ceremony at the Elysee Palace here on Sunday.

After a warm welcome from outgoing President Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace at around 10:00 a.m. local time (0800 GMT), Macron and Hollande held a closed-door meeting during which Macron was handed the codes to launch France's nuclear arsenal. (France-President-Inauguration)

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ANKARA -- Turkish fighter jets pounded outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq, killing 10 militants, the Turkish General Staff said in a statement on Sunday.

The statement said the airstrikes hit PKK targets in Zap and Sinat-Haftanin regions of northern Iraq. (Turkey-PKK)

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SANAA -- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned Sunday of a very serious cholera outbreak in Yemen as hospitals are struggling to cope with increasing numbers of patients.

At a press conference in capital Sanaa, the ICRC Operations Director Dominik Stillhart said more than 8,500 suspected cholera cases have been reported in 14 governorates of Yemen during April 27 and May 13.

"Unfortunately, 115 people have died from cholera (during this period). This is extremely serious," he said. (Yemen-Cholera-ICRC)

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DAMASCUS -- About 500 people including 180 rebels started evacuating the eastern Qaboun neighborhood of Damascus on Sunday, a day after the army wrested control over that key neighborhood, local media reported.

The Sunday evacuees are the first batch of rebels and their families leaving Qaboun toward the northwestern province of Idlib and the northern city of Jarablus, a day after they surrendered to the army in exchange for granting them access to the rebel-held province. (Syria-Evacuation) Endi