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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, May 16

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The White House on Monday strongly denied media reports accusing President Donald Trump of revealing highly classified intelligence information to Russia.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell all issued statements saying such reports were wrong.(US-Russia)

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WASHINGTON -- A small private jet crashed Monday afternoon in a residential area in Carlstadt, New Jersey, leaving two pilots dead and three buildings on fire, including a warehouse, police said.

The two-engine plane was a Learjet 35 that crashed on approach to a runway at the Teterboro Airport around 3:30 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement.(US-Plane Crash)

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BERLIN -- Turkey again denied German members of parliament access to the German Bundeswehr soldiers stationed at Turkey's Incirlik air base on Monday.

The Turkish government has not granted the necessary diplomatic clearance to the politicians for their visit, despite multiple requests by the Federal Foreign Office.(Germany-Turkey)

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MOSUL, Iraq -- Iraqi forces battling Islamic State militants liberated on Monday a neighborhood from IS militants after heavy clashes in the northern part of the IS stronghold in the western side of Mosul, the Iraqi military said.

The special forces of the Counter-Terrorism Service freed al-Uraybi neighborhood and raised the Iraqi flag over some of its buildings after killing many IS militants, Abdul-Amir Yarallah from the Joint Operations Command said in a statement.(Iraq-Mosul) Endi