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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, March 24

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At least one person was killed and two others injured after a military helicopter crashed Tuesday near Kiev, authorities said.

The MI-24 helicopter went down at around 2 p.m. local time (1200 GMT) near the town of Vasilkiv, 30 km south of the Ukrainian capital, the Interior Ministry said, without giving further details. (Ukraine-Helicopter-Crash)

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PARIS -- An Airbus A320 of the German low-cost airline Germanwings with 150 people on board crashed on Tuesday in southern France, French authorities confirmed.

The aircraft A320 operated by Lufthansa's budget airline Germanwings crashed in the southern French Alps while flying from Spain's Barcelona to Germany's Dusseldorf. (France-A320-Crash)

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RAMADI, Iraq -- Separate clashes on Tuesday between Iraqi forces and Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq's western province of Anbar left a total of 55 people killed and 71 wounded, security and medical sources said.

In the early hours of the day, security forces, backed by allied Shiite and Sunni militias and covered with Iraqi and U.S.-led aircraft, retook control of the areas of Albu Shihab and Albu Souda in west of the IS-held city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, after fierce clashes with the extremist militants, a provincial security source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. (Iraq-IS-Attacks)

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ARUSHA, Tanzania -- Five people were killed and several others injured in a road accident in Uchama area of Nzega district in western Tanzania's region of Tabora, police said on Tuesday.

Tabora Regional Police Commander (RPC) Suzan Kaganda said via telephone that the accident involving four vehicles occurred on Monday night at around 9:00 p.m. local time in an area located five kilometers from Nzega Township. (Tanzania-Road-Accident)

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ADEN, Yemen -- Eight protesters were shot dead and dozens wounded when Houthi gunmen opened fire to disperse thousands of protesters in Yemen's southern province of Taiz on Tuesday, a medical official told Xinhua.

According to a medical source inside the Ibn Sina public hospital, there are eight bodies of the protesters and dozens injured were brought for treatment. (Yemen-Protesters-Shooting) Endi