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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Oct. 12

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The Syrian army advanced on several fronts against armed militant groups on Monday, just days after starting a large-scale offensive against rebel-held areas across the country, according to the state news agency SANA.

The army said their forces regained control over 13 villages on Monday in the northern province of Aleppo, the countryside of the coastal city of Latakia and the central province of Hama. (Syria-Advances)

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JERUSALEM -- Three Israelis were injured in less than an hour on Monday in two stabbing attacks in Jerusalem, police said, as tensions between Palestinians and Israelis continue to run high.

Two Palestinians stabbed and critically injured two Israelis in Jerusalem's Jewish settlement neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev, before one assailant was shot dead by police, a police spokesperson said. (Israel-Stabbing Attacks-Injuries)

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BAMYAN, Afghanistan -- An army helicopter crashed in Afghanistan's central Bamyan province, killing two on board and injuring five others, spokesman for provincial government Abdul Rahmand Ahmadi said on Monday.(Afghanistan-Helicopter-Crash)

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STOCKHOLM -- The 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics, or officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was awarded to economist Angus Deaton "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare", announced the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences here on Monday.

"More than anyone else, Angus Deaton has enhanced the understanding of individual consumption choices," which is crucial to design economic policy that promotes welfare and reduces poverty, according to the official statement. (Sweden-Nobel Prize-Economics)

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MOSCOW -- The suspected organizers of an attempted terror attack in Moscow may be of Syrian origin, and law enforcement agencies are now investigating their links to the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, Russian media reported Monday.

Russia's National Anti-terrorist Committee foiled a terror attack in Moscow's central administrative district and detained a group of suspects, the organization said Sunday. A homemade explosive device was found and rendered harmless. (Russia-US-Terror)

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MOGADISHU -- Somalia security officers on Sunday nabbed more than 100 suspects in an operation that took place in the capital and its environs.

Security Ministry spokesman Mohamed Yusuf said the security forces carried out in collaboration with AMISOM forces raided several houses in Mogadishu to flush out Al-Shabaab suspects. (Somalia-Suspects) Endi