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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, April 2

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One suspect was arrested in the Kenya university attack at Garissa town near the border with Somalia, said Kenyan authorities Thursday, adding 280 students have been rescued while 535 remain unaccounted for.

Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery told journalists in Garissa that the suspect was arrested while trying to flee the scene, and is being interrogated in connection to the attack at Moi University campus in Garissa. (Kenya-Attack)

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PARIS -- The second black box of the Germanwings' A320 plane that crashed on March 24 in the southern French Alps was found, announced Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin and cited by French news channel BFMTV.

The second black box is to be analyzed by the French Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) in Paris. (France-Germanwings-Black Box)

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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- The death toll in a fishing freezer trawler that sank off Russia's Kamchatka peninsula Thursday morning has risen to 56 as two more bodies were recovered, the Interfax news agency reported.

The fishing trawler, Dalniy Vostok, had 132 crew members aboard when it sank in the Sea of Okhotsk at 6:15 a.m. local time Thursday (1915 GMT Wednesday). (Russia-Shipwreck)

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KABUL -- A suicide bombing rocked Khost city, the capital of Khost province on Thursday, leaving 17 people dead and injuring 50 others including a parliamentarian, provincial police chief Faizullah Ghairat said.

"Preliminary reports collected said that 17 people have lost their lives in the blast and some 50 others injured," Ghairat told reporters. (Afghanistan-Suicide Bombing)

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ADEN, Yemen -- Dozens of well-trained foreign troops arrived Thursday in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, where fierce street fighting is taking place between gunmen of the Shiite Houthi group and tribal militia allied with Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

"Scores of well-trained troops from various nationalities have just landed at the port apparently to confront the pro-Houthi forces on the ground," an official at Aden port told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. (Yemen-Foreign Troops) Endi