Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Sept. 20

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WASHINGTON -- The Chinese embassy in the United States held a reception on Thursday to celebrate the upcoming 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

"In the past 70 years, the Chinese people bid farewell to poverty and achieved miraculous growth through hard work," Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai said in an opening speech. (US-PRC-Founding Anniversary)

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OTTAWA -- Canadian Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau on Thursday apologized for appearing in two photographs and a video in either brownface or blackface.

While campaigning to win next month's Canadian general election for his second term in office, Trudeau found himself politically and morally weakened. (Canada-Trudeau-Apology)

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SANAA -- The Saudi-led coalition launched a series of air strikes early on Friday on Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, targeting four sites it said used by Yemeni Houthi rebels for assembling remote-controlled boats and sea mines.

In a statement carried by Saudi Press Agency, the coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said the targeted sites north of Hodeidah were used by Houthis to carry out "terrorist operations" that threaten shipping lines and the international trade in Bab al-Mandab Strait and in the south of the Red Sea. (Yemen-Hodeidah)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that his country is imposing sanctions on Iran's national bank following attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities.

Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House, claimed that the new sanctions on Tehran are the "highest sanctions ever imposed on a country." (U.S.-Iran-Sanctions) Enditem

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