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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, June 11

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One more death from the infection with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea was reported Thursday, bringing the total death toll to 10, the health ministry said.

The 83rd patient, 65, passed away on Thursday afternoon as he had already suffered from a terminal lung cancer, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare. (S. Korea-MERS)

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KATHMANDU -- At least 21 people were killed and 27 others still missing in landslides triggered by heavy rainfall, which buried six villages in northeastern Nepal on Thursday, police said.

Deputy Superintendent of Nepal Police based in Taplejung District, Shanti Raj Koirala, said 21 bodies had been recovered and another 27 were still missing. "Other missing people might have been buried under the rubble," he told Xinhua over the phone. (Nepal-Landslide)

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KIEV -- The Ukrainian authority said Thursday that five people, including three civilians, were killed in the past 24 hours in Ukraine's conflict-torn eastern regions amid intensified fighting.

Ukraine's military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said that two government soldiers were killed and 13 others wounded in clashes with pro-independence rebels in the past day. (Ukraine-Conflict-Death Toll)

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ASTANA -- Kazakhstan finalized 20-year-long negotiations on the conditions of accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Wednesday, according to a report published on the organization's website.

According to the WTO's report, the draft WTO Accession Package is to be submitted to the WTO Working Party on June 22. (Kazakhstan-WTO-Talks)

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MACHAKOS, Kenya -- At least seven people were killed and eight others injured in a grisly road accident along the busy Nairobi-Mombasa highway in eastern Kenya Thursday.

Traffic Commandant Charlton Muriithi and Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) confirmed the accident, which occurred when a mini bus and a truck collided head-on in Salama, Makueni County. (Kenya-Accident) Endi