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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, April 27

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Nepal authorities said Sunday that more than 2,430 people died in the country one day after a massive earthquake struck the impoverished Himalayan nation.

At least 1,152 people were killed in capital Kathmandu, and the number of injured nationwide climbed to 5,900, they said, warning that the death toll would rise further as search and rescue efforts were hampered by damaged roads, ineffective communication lines and landslides. (Nepal-Quake-Death)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least 30 people were killed and 150 others injured in separate rain-related accidents in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, local media reported.

Samaa TV said that most of the causalities took place in separate incidents of roof-collapse due to torrential rains in provincial capital of Peshawar and its adjoining areas.(Pakistan-Accident)

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LONDON -- Britain on Sunday deployed search and rescue crews, dogs and medical experts to support the relief effort in Nepal, where a powerful earthquake has killed over 2,000 people and injured about 5,000 others.

Britain has deployed a team of more than 60 search and rescue responders and medical experts as part of a cross-government capacity surge to support the relief effort in Nepal, British International Development Secretary Justine Greening said on Sunday.(Britain-Nepal-Rescue)

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MOSCOW -- Russia sent two planes carrying rescue team and humanitarian aid to quake-hit Nepal, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Sunday.

"Two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft, carrying rescue crews and equipment to help in the aftermath of the earthquake in Nepal, have taken off from the Ramenskoye airport near Moscow," a spokesman for the ministry said.(Russia-Nepal-Rescue)

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ASTANA -- Kazakhstan's incumbent President Nursultan Nazarbayev won 97.5 percent of the votes in Sunday's presidential election, showed exit polls conducted by the Institute for Democracy in Kazakhstan. (Kazakhstan-President-Election)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. and partner-nation military forces continued to conduct airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS) forces in Syria and Iraq over the past two days, U.S. Defense Department said on Sunday.

Fighter and bomber aircraft conducted a total of 11 airstrikes in Syria and 27 airstrikes in Iraq, the department said in a statement.(US-Syria-Iraq-Airstrik