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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Aug. 10

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A total of 19 people were killed on Sunday and 12 others injured in a traffic accident on the national road linking the Sudanese capital Khartoum and the Northern State, official SUNA news agency reported.

"The accident took place at Um Al-Hasan area, some 240 km north of Khartoum, when two passenger trucks collided as they were running on different directions,", the agency quoted Brig. Ahmed Abu Zaid, commissioner of Al-Daba locality in northern state, as saying.(Sudan-Accident)

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UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- The UN Security Council on Sunday "condemned in the strongest terms" the series of deadly terrorist attacks in the Afghan capital of Kabul since last Thursday, and "underlined the need to bring the perpetrators of these deplorable acts to justice."

The attacks resulted in hundreds of casualties and at least 70 deaths, including children, the 15-nation council noted in a press statement issued here, adding that at least two of them were claimed by the Taliban.(UN-Afghanistan)

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HOUSTON, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Eight people, including five children and three adults, were found dead inside a home in the U. S. city of Houston late Saturday and a suspect is now charged with multiple counts of capital murder, local media reported on Sunday.

The victims were found late Saturday inside a northwest Houston home by Harris County deputies who went there specifically to check on the welfare of the residents, according to local TV Station ABC13 reports.(US-Murder)

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DHAKA, Aug.9 (Xinhua) -- Six persons arrested on poaching charges have been killed in an alleged shootout with police in Bangladesh part of Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest.

Mohammad Moniruzzaman, deputy inspector general of Police Range in Khulna, some 180 km southwest of capital Dhaka, told the journalists that the poachers were arrested on Sunday morning.(Bangladesh-Poachers)

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DAMASCUS, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian air force on Sunday killed as many as 30 Islamic State (IS) militants in a central town recently overran by the terror-labeled group, according to the state news agency SANA.

Saudis and Tunisians were among those targeted by the air strikes in the town of Qaryateyn in the southeastern countryside of the central province of Homs, said SANA.(Syria-IS-Airstrikes) Endi