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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Oct. 26

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At least 125 people were killed and over 1,000 others injured when an earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale hit Pakistan on Monday, local media and MET office said.

Channel 92 reported that the country's northwestern tribal areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province were the worst-hit, being closest to the epicenter, where many buildings collapsed in cities and mud houses were levelled to ground in villages. (Pakistan-Earthquake)

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MUNICH -- Over the past weekend alone, more than 11,000 refugees came to the southern German state of Bavaria, federal German police said on Monday.

Those refugees went over the border from Austria to the Bavarian district of Lower Bavaria, Bavarian Radio cited a spokesman of federal police as saying. (Germany-Refugees)

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ADEN, Yemen -- Four pro-government fighters were killed in a suspected IS suicide bomber attack in Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Monday afternoon, an official told Xinhua.

The bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint manned by the Popular Resistance, an anti-Houthi militia, in Aden's neighborhood of Mansoura, the local official said on condition of anonymity. (Yemen-Bombing Attack)

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BRUSSELS -- A masked gunman attacked a military base in southern Belgium on Monday morning, ramming his car into a perimeter gate and exchanging gunshots with army officers, local media reported.

The incident happened at Flawinne near the city of Namur, Belgian broadcaster RTL reported. The man, wearing a balaclava, fled the scene after a brief exchange of gunfire and abandoned his car nearby. (Belgium-Military Base-Attack)

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KABUL -- At least 18 people have been confirmed dead and scores injured as a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck northern Afghanistan on Monday.

"Five bodies of the earthquake victims and 65 injured persons have been taken to hospital so far in Nangarhar's provincial capital Jalalabad city," Najibullah Kamawal, head of Nangarhar provincial health department, told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Earthquake)

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ANKARA -- Two policemen and seven suspected Islamic State (IS) militants were killed early Monday in a police raid in southern Turkey, the private Dogan News Agency reported.

Twelve IS militants were captured in the operation, while five police officers were wounded, Dogan said, quoting Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus. (Turkey-IS-Operation) Endi