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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Oct. 25

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Fire at a karaoke bar earlier Sunday in Manado city of North Sulawesi in central Indonesia left 12 people dead and 71 others injured, senior official at local disaster management agency said.

The victims were found at the second and third floor of a building located on Boulevard street, Kristian Lautonga, head of emergency unit of the local disaster management agency told Xinhua by phone.(Indonesia-Fire)

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RAMADI, Iraq -- A total of 25 security members were killed and 34 others wounded on Sunday in two suicide truck bomb attacks during clashes between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State (IS) militants in the western province of Anbar, a provincial security source said.

In one of the attacks, 15 soldiers and allied members of paramilitary units, known as Hashd Shaabi, were killed and 27 others wounded when a suicide bomber drove his explosive-laden military truck into a military base and detonated it in Albu Eitha area, just northeast of the IS-held provincial capital city of Ramadi, some 110 km west of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.(Iraq-IS-Clash)

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LONDON -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has apologized for "mistakes" in the planning of the Iraq war, admitting that "the intelligence we received was wrong," British media reported Sunday.

Blair conceded that there were "elements of truth" in the view that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was the "principle cause" of the rise of the Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, British Sky News reported.(Britain PM-Iraq War-Apologize)

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CAIRO -- Seven people in Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria died on Sunday due to the windy and rainy weather, state media reported.

Six people were killed when an electric cable fell on them due to the strong winds in Moharam Bek district near the tram, according to government-run Ahram online.(Egypt-Rain-Death)

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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan -- Some 12 militants have been killed as warplanes pounded a Taliban hideout in the southern Helmand province on Sunday, an army spokesman in the province said.

"Acting upon intelligence report the warplanes of army pounded Taliban hideout in Baba Ji area this morning, killing 12 insurgents on the spot," Brigadier Mohammad Rasoul Zazai told Xinhua.(Afghanistan-Air Strike) Endi