Xinhua world news summary at 0100, Feb. 28
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Two people were killed and another one wounded critically Saturday in a bomb explosion in India's eastern state of West Bengal, officials said.
The bomb exploded at village Shibpur of Birbhum district, about 264 km north of Kolkata city, the capital of West Bengal. (India-Explosion)
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MOSCOW -- Russia and the United States have exchanged information on the current ceasefire in Syria, a Russian senior military official said Saturday.
The shared information relates to areas in Syria where the latest ceasefire is applied and where armed groups are deployed, according to Sergei Rudskoi, head of the Russian Defense Ministry's Main Operational Directorate. (Russia-Syria-Ceasefire)
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ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan army said Saturday that at least four soldiers and 19 militants were killed in clashes in the country's North Waziristan tribal region.
The clashes erupted as the army expanded ground offensive in the region where the felling militants have taken shelter in the rugged mountains. (Pakistan-Clashes)
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ZAGREB -- Croatian Interior Ministry confirmed the country would introduce a quota for migrants and would allowed only 580 of them to cross its border a day, just like Slovenia, Croatian newspaper Vecernji List reported on Saturday.
The news was first confirmed by Slovenian police and later by the Croatian Interior Ministry as well, the report said. (Croatia-Quota-Migrants) Endi