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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Nov. 8

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Twenty-eight people remained missing two days after two dams burst at a major mine in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, wreaking havoc downstream, authorities said on Saturday.

Duarte Goncalves Junior, mayor of the nearby city of Mariana, said the 28 missing people include 13 mining workers from Samarco, the operator of the mine, and 15 residents of local villages, including five children.(Brazil-Mine Disaster)

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KHARTOUM -- The United Nations has declared that dozens of children have been killed in South Sudan during clashes between the South Sudanese warring parties in October.

"At least 80 civilians were reportedly killed in Leer County alone, including at least 57 children," UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday in a report.(S.Sudan-UN-Killing)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least 20 militants were killed in airstrikes in two separate areas of Pakistan's northwest tribal region of Khyber Agency on Saturday, security officials said.

The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) jets pounded a number of militants' hideouts in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency, killing at least five insurgents and injuring several others.(Pakistan-Militants)

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DAMASCUS -- At least 10 people were killed on Saturday by airstrikes against the rebel bastion of Douma east of the capital Damascus, a monitor group reported.

"Warplanes believed to be Russians" carried out two airstrikes against the Damascus' eastern suburb of Douma, followed by a rocket fire that targeted the same area, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.(Syria-Airstrikes)

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CAIRO -- The wreckage of the Russian plane crashed in Egypt's Sinai will be moved soon to the capital Cairo, while there is still no evidence of the reason of the crash, the head of the Egypt-led investigation committee told reporters in a news conference on Saturday.

"The wreckage will be recovered to a safe and secure place in Cairo for further examination of each part," committee chief Ayman al-Mokadem said, adding that the 47-member investigation team, besides several other consultants, are still in the process of information gathering.(Egypt-Russia-Plane) Endi