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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Feb. 23

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WASHINGTON -- Special counsel Robert Mueller filed a new indictment on Thursday against U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign aides, Paul Manafort and Rick Gates.

The new indictment, filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, state of Virginia, includes new allegations of tax evasion and bank fraud against Manafort, former Trump campaign chief, and Gates, a former campaign aide.(US-Russia-Probe)

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LOS ANGELES -- U.S. private flight company SpaceX on Thursday launched its first two test satellites for its global broadband internet-in-space project.

A used Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at 6:17 a.m. local time (1417 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 4E at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, carrying Spain's PAZ, a radar-imaging satellite, and two SpaceX test satellites for global broadband.(U.S.-SpaceX-Satellites)

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DUBLIN -- A total of 102 people have died of flu in Ireland over the last three months, said a health official here on Thursday.

This represented seven more compared to the 95 flu deaths reported in the country in the same period last year, according to Kevin Kellenher from the Health Service Executive (HSE), a government body responsible for all the public health services in Ireland.(Ireland-Health)

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UNITED NATIONS -- Mark Lowcock, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, on Thursday called on the Security Council to take "urgent and concrete action" as violence escalates in Syria.

"When an entire generation is robbed of its future, when hospital attacks have become the new normal, when siege of entire cities and neighborhoods have become a lasting reality for hundreds of thousands of people, the international community must take urgent and concrete action," Lowcock told the Security Council.(UN-Syria-Appeal)

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LAGOS -- Nigeria's northeast Yobe state government on Thursday apologized for claiming that some of the abducted school girls at Government Girls College Dapchi had been rescued.

Abdullahi Bego, a government spokesperson gave the apology over the statement, which turned out to be untrue.(Nigeria-Boko Haram) Enditem

 

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