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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, March 31

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CAMBRIDGE, Britain -- The funeral of Professor Stephen Hawking was held Saturday at a church near the Cambridge University college where he was a fellow for more than half a century.

Up to 500 family members, friends and colleagues attended the private funeral service at the Great St Mary's Church, officiated by the Reverend Dr Cally Hammond, Dean of Gonville and Caius College, where Hawking was a fellow for more than 50 years. (UK-Hawking-Funeral)

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SAN FRANCISCO -- The recent Facebook scandal about 50 million users suffering breach of their private data shows that stronger government regulation is needed to make social media companies protect their users' privacy better, an industry expert said Friday.

Bob O'Donnell, president and chief analyst of TECHnalysis Research, an American market research and consulting firm, said the privacy crisis plaguing Facebook, the world's largest online social media company, indicates that social media companies may not be able to properly handle users' data. (US-Facebook Scandal-Expert)

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SEOUL -- Three South Koreans were presumed to have been kidnapped by pirates in seas off Ghana, the foreign ministry said Saturday.

Marine 711, a fishing boat with three South Koreans aboard, was believed to have been abducted in seas off Ghana at about 5:30 p.m. on Monday (Ghana time), according to a press release from the foreign ministry. (S.Korea-Kidnapping)

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DAMASCUS -- Four strategic towns of Syria's capital Damascus' Eastern Ghouta countryside are cleared of rebels, as the last batch of rebels and their families got on the buses to leave toward rebel-held areas in the north, according to the state media outlets.

The liberation of Jobar, Zamalka, Ayn Tarma and Arbeen will be declared in the next few hours, as the last rebel batch is preparing to leave those areas, leaving the entire Eastern Ghouta free of rebels except the district of Douma in the northern part of Eastern Ghouta. (Syria-Eastern Ghouta-Evacuation) Enditem

 

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