Off the wire
• China cuts off illegal government involvement with tax agents  • (Xi's U.S. Visit) Xinhua Insight: Best-seller sheds light on CPC "governance wisdom"  • Flight connections between Cuba, U.S. increase  • Japan's jobless rate up to 3.4 pct in Aug.  • Xinhua China news advisory -- Oct. 2  • 2nd LD Writethru: Obama blasts Congress, lobby groups for botched gun control laws after Oregon massacre  • S.Korea's consumer price inflation stays at zero level for 10 months  • S.Korea posts current account surplus for 42 months  • Dollar trades at upper 119 yen level in early Tokyo deals  • Tokyo shares open lower on weak U.S. data  
You are here: 　 Home

Xinhua world news summary at 0230 GMT, Oct. 2

Xinhua, October 2, 2015 Adjust font size:

At least 10 people were killed and 20 more injured in a campus shooting at a community college in the U.S. state of Oregon Thursday, according to state police.

The gunman was said to be a 20-year-old male who started the carnage at the community college campus in rural Oregon before having an exchange of fire with police. (U.S.-Shooting)

- - - -

KABUL -- A U.S. transport plane crashed at a local airport in Jalalabad, capital city of Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar overnight Thursday, leaving 12 people dead, local sources said early on Friday.

"The C-130 American plane crashed at Jalalabad airport at around midnight, leaving the causalities," a local source told Xinhua anonymously. Details about the incident remained unknown. (Afghanistan-Crash)

- - - -

ABUJA -- Casualties were feared late Thursday when multiple explosions rock Nigeria's Maiduguri city, capital of the northeastern state of Borno, security sources said.

Despite heavy military presence, four explosions were heard in the western part of Maiduguri, the city also known to be the headquarters of Boko Haram insurgents, an unnamed security source told Xinhua. (Nigeria-Explosion)

- - - -

TEHRAN -- Iran supports Russian military action against terrorism in Syria, Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.

"Given the official request of the Syrian government from the Russian Federation, Iran acknowledges Russia's military operation against terrorist groups in Syria," Marzieh Afkham, spokesperson for foreign ministry, was quoted as saying by official IRNA news agency. (Iran-Syria) Endi