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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, March 15

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At least four medical students have been killed and 30 others hurt in a major road mishap in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, a police officer said Tuesday.

"The mishap happened when a bus in which the victims were travelling flopped over after hitting a tree late Monday night in the city of Vijayawada," he said on condition of anonymity. (India-Mishap-Police)

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SANAA -- At least 30 civilians were killed on Tuesday in an airstrike carried out by Saudi-led coalition aircraft on a crowded popular market north of Yemen's capital Sanaa, medics and a local source told Xinhua.

"More than 30 civilians were killed and other 90 wounded when the Saudi-led fighter jets launched two airstrikes on Al-Khamees market in the Mastaba district of Hajja province," a medic told Xinhua. (Yemen-Airstrike)

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BERLIN -- A car explosion caused by an explosive device in the German capital on Tuesday has killed the driver, German broadcaster ARD reported.

According to initial findings by police, the car was on the move as the explosion happened in the morning in the Berlin locality of Charlottenburg. It rolled over several times after the explosion. (Germany-Explosion)

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Moscow -- The first group of Russian aircraft leaving Syria has arrived at the Voronezh base in southern Russia, the Rossiya 24 TV channel said Tuesday.

A crowd of people welcomed the pilots with flags and flowers, the TV footage showed. (Russia-Syria-Withdrawal) Endi