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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Aug. 14

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II is full of euphemism, but fails to address for what Japan apologized for, said former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama on Friday.

In a press conference immediately after Abe's statement, Murayama, 91, said in Oita Prefecture that he did not feel Abe uphold the 1995 landmark statement released by Murayama, according to local reports. (Japan-WWII Statement-Murayama)

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KABUL -- Fierce fighting flared up in Tagab district of the northern Badakhshan province early Friday as hundreds of Taliban fighters stormed security checkpoints in Tagab district early morning, deputy to provincial police chief Sakhidad Haidary said. (Afghanistan-Clashes)

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NEW DELHI -- At least nine people have been killed and eight others injured in a road mishap in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, a police officer said Friday.

"The mishap happened when a state-run bus skidded off the road and rolled down from a hill near Tissa in the state's Chamba district Thursday," he said, on condition of anonymity. (India-Bus-Accident)

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KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said here Friday that most of the debris found in the Maldives is unrelated to the missing flight of Malaysian Airlines MH370.

Liow said that according to the report of the Malaysia investigation team in Maldives, most of the debris there are negative and not plane material. (Malaysia-Maldives-MH370) < - - - -

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines -- An Abu Sayyaf militant was killed while two others, and a government soldier, were injured in an encounter Friday morning in a remote village of south Philippine province of Basilan, said Philippine military. (Philippines-Encounter) Endi