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Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, April 2

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SANAA -- At least 14 people were killed when Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit a camp of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Monday, medics and a security official said.

Nine others were wounded in the air attacks that struck the camp in Hali district, they added. (Yemen-Saudi Airstrikes)

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DAMASCUS -- A total of 484 militants of the Islam Army and their families started getting on buses that will transfer them from Douma district in Eastern Ghouta toward the rebel-held Jarablus city in the north, according to the state news agency SANA.

Eight buses transporting the rebels left Douma and reached the crossing of Wafideen area northeast of Damascus, waiting for more rebels to leave so that the first convoy of Islam Army rebels can set off to Jarablus in the northern countryside of Aleppo province near the Turkish border. (Syria-Eastern Ghouta)

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CAIRO -- Egyptian Presidential Committee announced on Monday that incumbent President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi won 97.08 percent of the valid votes in the 2018 presidential election.

A total of 21,835,387 voted for Sisi at home and abroad, head of Egypt's National Elections Authority (NEA), Lashin Ibrahim, told a press conference in Cairo. (Egypt-Sisi-Elections)

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ISTANBUL -- Turkish troops are in preparation for moving against new targets outside the country's borders, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.

The statement came one day after the president visited Turkish soldiers at an outpost in Turkey's Hatay province bordering Syria. (Turkey-New Operations) Enditem