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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, April 16

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The police in Nigeria on Thursday said it arrested 15 people for various offenses during the April 11 Governorship and House of Assembly elections in central north Kogi State.

The suspects would be charged to court after investigation, the state police spokesperson Shola Adebayo told reporters in Lokoja, the state capital. (Nigeria-Elections)

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MADRID -- The Spanish treasury on Thursday placed treasury bonds worth 4.558 billion euros (4.90 billion U.S. dollars) paying higher interest rates when compared with previous auctions and registering a demand of 9.322 billion euros.

A total of 1.911 billion euros worth of five-year bonds carried an average interest rate of 0.535 percent, which was above the 0.386 percent of the previous issue. (Span-Bond)

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KIEV -- A Ukrainian pro-independence journalist was shot dead Thursday by unknown gunmen near his house in central Kiev, the country's Interior Ministry said.

Oles Buzina was killed at 1:20 p.m. (1020 GMT) by two masked gunmen, who fired several shots from a car and fled, said ministry spokesperson Julia Mustash. (Ukraine-Journalist)

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UNITED NATIONS -- Jamal Benomar, the special adviser to the UN secretary-general on Yemen, on Wednesday stepped down and his successor "shall be named in due course," a UN spokesman told reporters here.

Benomarhas resigned because he "expressed an interest in moving on to another assignment," said the spokesman in a note to the reporters here Wednesday night. (UN-Yemen)

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HO CHI MINH CITY -- Two Su-22 fighter jets crashed in Vietnam's central Binh Thuan province after a mid-air collision on Thursday.

The two aircraft from Air Division 370 collided during a training mission near Phu Quy island, the VNExpress online newspaper reported. The two pilots ejected but still remained missing. (Vietnam-Jet Crash)

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GAZA -- A senior Hamas leader on Thursday called for the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers and settlers in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails.

Khalil al-Hayya, a senior leader of the militant group, told a rally marking the annual Palestinian Prisoners' Day that Hamas will free Palestinian prisoners by "force." (Palestine-Israel) Endi