Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Dec.27
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MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday submitted to the Central Election Committee (CEC) documents needed to officially start his 2018 presidential campaign.
On Dec. 6, Putin announced that he would seek a new term in the presidential election next year during a meeting with employees of a car-making plant in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia-Putin-Candidacy)
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan -- One army soldier and an assailant were killed and 14 soldiers wounded when a suicide car bomb struck an army convoy near a police station in Lashkar Gah, capital of southern province of Helmand on Wednesday, a local official said.
"The blast occurred near 505 Bost Police Zone in Lashkar Gah at around midday when an army convoy was passing by the area," the source told Xinhua anonymously. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. (Afghanistan-Explosion)
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MOSCOW -- Sergey Chemezov, chief executive officer of Russia's hi-tech giant Rostec Corporation confirmed that Turkey has purchased four Russian S-400 missile defense systems worth 2.5 billion U.S. dollars, local media reported Wednesday.
Chemezov also confirmed that the deliveries will start in March 2020.
The S-400, Russia's most advanced long-range anti-aircraft missile system, can carry three types of missiles, including ballistic and cruise missiles.(Russia-Turkey-Deal)
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SEOUL -- South Korea on Wednesday confirmed the existence of secret agreement with Japan in the 2015 deal between the two countries over the sexual slavery victims of South Korea who were forced into sex enslavement for Japanese military brothels during World War II.
The task force team under Seoul's foreign ministry announced a review result on the deal with Japan, reached on Dec. 28, 2015 under the previous South Korean government to reach a "final and irreversible" agreement on comfort women victims.
Comfort women refers to the Korean women who were kidnapped, coerced or duped into sex servitude for Japan's Imperial Army during the Pacific War. Historians say up to 200,000 girls and young women fell victim to the war crime against humanity.(S.Korea-Japan-Comfort Women) Enditem