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Xinhua world news summary at 0100 GMT, Dec. 19

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JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa's ruling party African National Congress (ANC) elected Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday to be the party's president for the next five years.

Ramaphosa who is the party and country's deputy president had a tight contest with the former AU Commission chairperson, Nkosazan Dlamini-Zuma for the ANC president position. The elections were conducted by EleXions Agency. (South Africa-Politics)

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WARSAW -- A MiG-29 aircraft crashed Monday evening when it prepared for a landing at the airport in Minsk Mazowiecki, a town near capital Warsaw.

The pilot survived the crash and has been sent to hospital. (Poland-Plane Crash)

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ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistani Senate Monday adopted a resolution recommending the government to demand compensation from the U.S. government on account of lives lost and damage done to the innocent citizens as a result of drone attacks inside Pakistan.

The resolution was passed as the U.S. unmanned aircraft routinely carry out attacks in Pakistani tribal regions in what they claim to target the militants. However, people in the tribal regions insist that the drone strikes have also killed civilians. (Pakistan-U.S.-Drone Attacks)

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RAMALLAH -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday that "the peaceful struggle" against U.S. decision of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel will go on.

"The recent statements are trying to deny our history, but this is our country," Abbas said after receiving in Ramallah the heads of the Christian churches in Jerusalem, according to the official Palestinian News Agency. (Palestine-Jerusalem-Protests)

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ALGIERS -- Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohamed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani on Monday started a two-day visit to Algeria to discuss the latest U.S. move on Jerusalem and the diplomatic crisis in the Gulf.

The top Qatari diplomat was welcomed upon his arrival at Houarai Boumediene International Airport of Algiers by his Algerian counterpart, Abdelkader Messahel. (Algeria-Qatar-Jerusalem) Enditem

 

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