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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Feb. 9

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The Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing at the Police Officers' Club in Damascus' northern district of Masken Barzeh earlier on Tuesday, the group said in an online statement.

The group said the suicide bomber, Abu Abdul-Rahman al-Shami, infiltrated by his explosive-laden vehicle the Police Officers' Club in the Masaken Barzeh district, north of the capital Damascus, killing about 20 and injuring 40 others. (Damascus-IS)

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ISLAMABAD -- Two pilots were killed when a trainer plane of Pakistan army aviation crashed into the country's east Gujranwala district on Tuesday evening, a military statement said.

The statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the mouthpiece of Pakistani army, said that the trainer "Mushshak" aircraft was on its routine flight when it crashed in the Gujranwala district of the country's east Punjab province. (Pakistan-Plane Crash)

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ANKARA -- Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Tuesday warned Russia against possible consequences of its moves in neighboring Syria, suggesting that Moscow might be mired in the country as the Soviet Union did in Afghanistan in 1979, Daily News reported.

"The tyrants who turned Syria, my precious Aleppo and Bayirbucak into a lake of blood will one day definitely pay the price for what they have done," Davutoglu said during a parliamentary group meeting of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). (Turkey-Russia-Syria)

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GENEVA -- The International Organization for Migration (IOM) figures revealed on Tuesday that 76,263 maritime refugee and migrant arrivals have been recorded in Europe through the first six weeks of 2016.

This represents close to 2,000 arrivals on European shores every day, nearly ten times the daily average of a year ago. (IOM-Refugee-Europe) Endi