Xinhua world news summary at 1600 GMT, Dec.29

CAIRO -- At least ten people were killed in a shootout outside a church south of Cairo on Friday, state-media reported.

"The security forces frustrated an attack on Mar Mina Church in the Helwan district," said a statement from Egyptian Interior Ministry. (Egypt-Church-Attack)

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ANKARA -- Turkey and Russia on Friday inked a loan agreement in Ankara for purchase of the S-400 missile defense system worth 2.5 billion U.S. dollars, a Turkish official told Xinhua.

Russia will provide Turkey with four batteries of S-400 surface-to-air missile system under the deal and the latter will pay 45 percent of the cost up front with Moscow providing loans to cover the remaining 55 percent. (Turkey-Russia-Loan Deal)

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JERUSALEM -- Israel's military said Friday it attacked two Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip after three rockets launched from the besieged Palestinian enclave hit an Israeli building earlier.

"IDF (Israel Defense Forces) tanks and an IAF (Israel Air Force) aircraft targeted two posts (...) in the northern Gaza Strip," a military statement read. (Israel-Hamas-Attack)

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SEOUL -- Chief of South Korea's ruling Democratic Party said Friday that a new deal with Japan is needed over wartime sex slavery victims to make the deal acceptable to the victims.

Choo Mi-ae, chairperson of the Democratic Party, told a party meeting that the 2015 deal was not an agreement as it was aimed to cover up truth, referring to the 2015 deal between then South Korean government under ousted President Park Geun-hye and the Japanese government led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (South Korea-Japan-Wartime Sex Slavery Victims)

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ANKARA -- At least two people were killed and 20 others wounded on Friday morning after a bus crashed near the Turkish capital Ankara, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

The accident occurred in Camlidere county of Ankara Province around 8:00 a.m.(GMT0500). (Turkey-Bus Crash) Enditem