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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Dec. 7

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At least six people died and 15 others were battling for their lives at a hospital after consuming spurious liquor in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh Monday.

"The victims were all daily laborers, who went to a local bar in the state's Vijayawada district and had the toxic liquor before going for work," he said, on condition of anonymity.(India-Alcohol-Police)

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KIEV -- Two adults and six children were injured Sunday after a hand grenade was thrown into a group of people at a supermarket parking lot outside the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, authorities said Monday.

The incident occurred at about 6:35 p.m. local time (GMT 1635) in Bucha town, 28 km west of the capital, when an unknown man lobbed the grenade towards a crowd standing in the parking lot before driving away from the scene, according to the Interior Ministry's department in Kiev region.(Ukraine-Attack)

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PHNOM PENH -- At least three Cambodian villagers have died and 31 others have been hospitalized in eastern Kratie province after consuming the cooked flesh of a big dog that was toxic, a local police chief confirmed on Monday.

"An old man, his daughter-in-law and their female-neighbor died on Sunday morning, hours after they ate a toxic dog meat delicacy," Kong Kimny, police chief of Snuol district, where the incident took place, told Xinhua, adding that the old man bought the contaminated carcass from the market to cook for food.(Cambodia-Food Poisoning)

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MOGADISHU -- At least 145,200 people have been affected by flash floods since the onset of rainy season in October in Somalia, the UN humanitarian agency said.

The UN office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest report received Monday that there has been a further reduction in rainfall in most areas of Juba and Shabelle basins inside Somalia as well as the Ethiopian highlands compared to the previous week. However, a few areas in Middle and Lower Shabelle regions received moderate rains.(Somalia-Society)

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DAMASCUS -- Four Syrian soldiers were killed on Sunday when U.S.-led coalition airplanes struck positions of government troops, pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV reported on Monday.

The was the first time for the U.S.-led coalition to target Syrian government forces since it started air operations in Syria over a year ago, with fighting Islamic State (IS) as its stated aim.(Syria-US-Airstrike) Endi