Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Sept. 17

An 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Chile at 7:55 p.m. local time (22:55 GMT), rocking buildings in the capital Santiago and sending people flooding into the streets.

The magnitude of the earthquake was first reported as being 7.2 but was quickly upgraded to 7.9 and then 8.3 by the United States Geological Service (USGS). (Chile-Earthquake-Tsunami)

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ZAGREB -- Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic said Croatia could not handle tens of thousands migrants after the arrival of more than 1,000 migrants on Wednesday.

Croatia could deal with thousands but not tens of thousands, she said. "We simply don't have the capacity." (Croatia-Refugees)

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WASHINGTON -- Only "four or five" U.S.-trained Syrian rebels are currently in Syria to fight against the extremist group the Islamic State (IS), a top U.S. general acknowledged Wednesday.

Grilled in a hearing by U.S. lawmakers who dismissed the training program as a "total failure", General Lloyd Austin said he agreed that the U.S. military would not reach its previous goal of training 5,400 Syrian rebels this year. (Pentagon-Syria-Rebels)

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CAIRO -- A police general was shot dead by unknown militants on Wednesday while checking police points at a square in Arish town of restive North Sinai province, northeast of the capital Cairo, the Egyptian Interior Ministry reported.

"The assailants drove a white vehicle and shot at a security point at Al-Nasr Square near Arish police station that wounded General Khaled Othman to death," the ministry's spokesman said in a statement, noting that the forces exchanged fire with the militants who ran away. (Egypt-Sinai-Terrorism) Endi