Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Dec. 2

At least 10 people, including a minor, were killed when their van plunged into a river in Pakistan's northwestern Chitral valley on Wednesday, local media reported.

According to the local Urdu TV Channel Samaa, the incident took place when a passenger van fell into the Chitral River near the Baeech area of Chitral, a district in the country's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.(Paksitan-Road Accident)

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KABUL -- A bomb blast by anti-government militants on Wednesday claimed two lives and injured seven others in Afghanistan's the eastern Khost province, a provincial government official said.

"A mine planted by militants struck the vehicle of Habib Khan Taniwal, a member of the Provincial Council, at around 02:15 p.m. local time today, killing two persons on the spot and injuring seven others," spokesman for the provincial government Mohammad Mabariz Zadran told Xinhua.(Afghanistan-Blast)

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JAKARTA -- Heavy downpours in North Sumatra of Indonesia killed two people and damaged houses and bridges on Wednesday, official said here.

The floods and landslides took place on Tuesday to Wednesday at several sub-districts of North Sumatra, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of national management agency told Xinhua by phone.(Indonesia-Landslide)

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MOMBASA, Kenya -- A Kenyan court on Wednesday sentenced British man Jermaine Grant to nine years in prison on terror charges.

Mombasa High Court convicted him of nine charges related to trying to illegally acquire Kenyan citizenship through forged documents.(Kenya-British)

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YAOUNDE -- Two suicide bombers suspected to be members of Nigerian Islamic group Boko Haram killed four civilians on Tuesday night in Waza, a town in Cameroon's Far North region, a military source says.

"Two bombs exploded in the locality of Waza in the Far-North Region, killing at least four Cameroonians as well as the two persons who carried the bombs," the source told Xinhua on Wednesday.(Cameroon-Boko Haram) Endi