Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Feb.15
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At least 10 people were killed and 15 others injured in a road mishap in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand late Sunday night, a police official said Monday.
"The mishap happened when a truck ran over a group of people who were part of an idol immersion procession in the state's Giridih district," he said, on condition of anonymity. (India-Road Mishap)
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SEOUL -- Three South Korean military personnel have been killed on Monday when their helicopter crashed in the country's east region, Yonhap news agency cited military authorities as reporting.
The UH-1H Army helicopter went down at about 10:10 a.m. (0110 GMT) in the eastern city of Chuncheon. (S.Korea-Chopper-Crash)
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ANKARA -- Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz has refuted Syrian government claim that about 100 Turkish troops had entered Syria, state-run Anatolia news agency reported on Monday.
"It is not true," Yilmaz told lawmakers in the Turkish capital Ankara during a parliamentary budget meeting Sunday night shortly after the Syrian government made the claim. (Turkey-Syria-Denial)
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TEHRAN -- Russia is shipping S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari said here on Monday.
"The agreement for the delivery of S-300 systems has been finalized over the past months and they are being shipped to Iran," Ansari told a weekly press conference. ( Iran-Russia-Missiles) Endi