Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Jan. 25
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Japan posted a trade deficit in 2015 for the fifth successive year, although the deficit shrank by 77.9 percent from the previous year to 2.83 trillion yen (23.9 billion U.S. dollars), as import costs dropped owing to the global oil glut and slumping prices, government data showed Monday.
According to a preliminary report from the Finance Ministry, exports climbed 3.5 percent to 75.63 trillion yen, in the recording year from a year earlier, on robust deliveries of vehicles to the U.S., while imports retreated 8.7 percent to 78.46 trillion yen, the latest annual figures showed. (Japan-Trade Deficit)
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NEW DELHI -- India and France Monday signed an MoU on purchase of Rafale fighter jets, the delayed multi-billion U.S. dollar arms deal between the two countries, said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"We are very happy that we have formed an agreement for purchaseing 36 Rafale aircraft with France," Modi said after a meeting with French President Francois Hollande, who is on a three-day visit here. (India-France-Arms Deal)
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Seven persons were killed in explosions and gunfight after Taliban attacked a police station in Afghanistan's southern town of Spin Boldak on Monday, police said.
"The clash erupted at around midday after gunmen armed with suicide vests and weapons stormed an Afghan Border Police station in Spin Boldak of Kandahar province bordering Pakistan," provincial police spokesman Zia Durrani told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Attack)
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YAOUNDE -- At least 25 people were killed on Monday in suicide bomb attacks in a village in the Far North region of Cameroon, a local security source said.
A local market in Bodo village near the Nigerian border was hit by at least three suicide bombers, causing a large number of casualties, said the source who request anonymity. (Cameroon-Attacks) Endi