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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Jan. 25

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Central African Republic (CAR)'s Youth and Sports Minister Armel Ningatoloum Sayo was abducted in capital Bangui on Sunday, a CAR official told Xinhua.

The official of the Youth and Sports Ministry, who only identified himself as Goumba, told Xinhua by phone that the minister was abducted by armed men on his way back from church in the morning. (CAR-Minister)

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MANILA -- At least 30 Philippine policemen were killed in a gunbattle with alleged members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the south province of Maguindanao on Sunday.

Police said the clashes occurred in the early hours of the day in the town of Mamasapano. (Philippines-Policemen-Gunbattle)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least 35 militants were killed in Pakistan army's airstrikes in the northwestern restive tribal region of North Waziristan, the military said on Sunday.

The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), Pakistan army's mouthpiece, said jet fighters pounded the hideouts of militants in Datta Khel area of the tribal region bordering Afghanistan. (Pakistan-Airstrike)

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BAGHDAD -- A total of 56 people were killed in the clashes between security forces and the Islamic State (IS) militants across Iraq and 9 others killed in bomb attacks targeting restaurants in the capital Baghdad on Sunday, security sources said.

In Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, the security forces backed by Shiite militiamen and aircraft retook control of eight villages in the rural area in northeast of the volatile town of Maqdadiyah, some 100 km northeast of Baghdad, after fierce clashes with the IS militants, leaving at least 35 IS militants killed, an Interior Ministry statement quoted Lieutenant General Jamil al-Shimary, the provincial police chief, as saying. (Iraq-Clash-IS)

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TRIPOLI -- The deputy foreign minister in Libya's internationally recognized government, Hassan Alsaghir, was kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Sunday in the eastern city of Beida, according to Libyan government sources.

An armed group stormed the Marhaba hotel at the early hours on Sunday, "violently" taking Alsaghir to an unknown place by a car in dark color, according to an official who declined to disclose his name from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Libya-Kidnapping)

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NEW DELHI -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday that the two countries have reached an agreement to break a six-year impasse on the landmark civil nuclear deal.

"The civil nuclear deal was the centerpiece of Indo-U.S. understanding. Six years after we signed a bilateral agreement we are moving towards commercial viability," Modi said at a joint press conference with Obama. (India-US-Nuclear Deal) Endi