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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Feb. 4

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Iraqi security forces on Thursday killed at least 17 Islamic State (IS) militants in the western province of Anbar, a security source said.

The security forces and allied paramilitary Sunni tribal fighters clashed with IS militants in the district of Sajjariyah in the eastern part of provincial capital Ramadi, 110 km west of Baghdad, killing 17 IS militants, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. (Iraq-IS-Fighting)

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SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir -- Indian military Thursday said there was little chance of finding survivors among the 10 troopers buried under avalanche on Siachen Glacier near Line of Control in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

"It is with deepest of regrets that we have to state that chances of finding any survivors are now very remote," Indian military spokesman Col N N Joshi said. (India-Kashmir-Avalanche)

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BERLIN -- German police arrested on Thursday three suspected violent Islamists during large-scale raids across Germany, German media reported.

Two allegedly violent Islamists and a woman were arrested after hundreds of police raided two apartments and two firms in Berlin, as well as a refugee shelter near Hanover and one in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, German broadcaster ARD reported. (Germany-Suspected Islamists)

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NEW DELHI -- A local court in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal Thursday gave death sentence to 11 people for killing a woman to grab the land she was occupying as a refugee.

The Nadia district court Judge Partha Sarathi Mukhopadhyay slapped death penalty on the 11 accused for shooting dead Aparna Bag on Nov. 23, 2014, after convicting them of the murder on Wednesday, said local media. (India-Murder) Endi