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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Jan. 11

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South African President Jacob Zuma has never said racism is not an issue in South Africa, the Presidency said on Monday.

The Presidency was responding to a report by the Independent Newspapers group which "erroneously" quoted Zuma as saying in his Sunday speech marking the 104th anniversary of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) that racism was not an issue in South Africa. (South Africa-Racism)

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ROME -- The body of a migrant woman was recovered on Monday morning and 35 migrants were rescued along the Puglia coast in southern Italy, local reports said.

The woman was part of a group of at least 40 Somali migrants, including some women and one minor, thrown into the water near rocks by migrant traffickers during the night, according to first investigations. (Italy-Refugee)

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SEOUL -- Tensions rose on the Korean Peninsula after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s nuclear test last week as the rival Koreas resumed propaganda broadcasts and the U.S. forces sent a B-52 bomber as part of retaliatory measures.

Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, commander of the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), on Monday visited the air force base in Osan, 40 km south of Seoul, along with South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Lee Sun-Jin. (South Korea-DPRK-Tension)

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SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir -- An Indian trooper and two porters were wounded in separate landmine blasts, close to Line of Control (LoC) dividing Kashmir, officials said Monday.

The trooper was wounded in Guntrain area of frontier Poonch, southwest of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. (Indian-controlled Kashmir-Landmine)

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DAMASCUS -- Twelve school children were killed on Monday in an airstrike on a school in Syria's Aleppo province, a monitor group reported.

The air raid targeted the school in the town of Ankara in the countryside of Aleppo, said the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which says it relies on activists on the ground inside Syria. (Syria-Airstrike) Endi