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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Jan. 21

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Top U.S. diplomat for Latin America will travel to Cuba on Jan. 21-24 to discuss re- establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba, the U.S. State Department announced Tuesday.

Apart from the previously scheduled migration talks, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson will launch a discussion with the Cuban government on re- establishing diplomatic relations, a State Department statement said. (US-Cuba-Ties)

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BAGHDAD -- A total of 26 bodies, including 15 civilians and 11 members of Kurdish security forces, were found in northern Iraq, an Iraqi official said on Tuesday.

A local official of Diyala province said that search teams from the Kurdistan regional government and Iraqi human rights ministry found these bodies in the rural area of Saadiya district, 120 km northeast of Baghdad. (Iraq-Grave-IS)

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WASHINGTON -- A gunman shot and critically injured a doctor Tuesday in a prestigious hospital in the U.S. city of Boston, Massachusetts before killing himself, local police said.

The shooting took place inside the Brigham and Women's Hospital, affiliated with the medical school of the Harvard University, Boston Police Commissioner William Evans was quoted by local media as saying. (US-Gunman)

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MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday called for strengthening the country's armed forces to tackle challenges posed by other countries.

"We can see how other countries are openly declaring their geopolitical claims without stopping short of open interference in the internal affairs of independent states. In addition to that, they are actively building up and modernizing their military arsenals," he was quoted by TASS as saying at a meeting of the Russian Military-Industrial Commission. (Russia-Armed Force)

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ANTANANARIVO -- Thirty-five people were killed by cyclone Chedza, which hit Madagascar on Jan.16 and Jan. 17, said the National Disaster Risk Management Office (BNGRC) on Tuesday.

BNGRC Executive Secretary Ludovic Lomotsy told Xinhua that his office temporarily recorded 117,181 people affected by floods due to heavy rainfall. (Madagascar-Cyclone) Endi