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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, April 10

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Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk on Sunday announced that he will tender his resignation to parliament on Tuesday.

"I decided to resign from the post of the Prime Minister of Ukraine", he said in the program "10 minutes with the Prime Minister", aired on Ukrainian TV channels. (Ukraine-PM-Resignation)

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NEW DELHI -- At least 11 people were killed Sunday after a speedy car collided with a two-wheeler and then rammed into a truck in southern Indian state of Andhra Pardesh, officials said.

The accident took place at Kagita village in Nakkapalli mandal of Visakhapatnam district, about 617 km east of Hyderabad city, the capital of Andhra Pradesh. (India-Accident)

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KABUL/ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 on the Richter scale jolted parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, killing two and injuring 10 in Pakistan on Sunday.

The quake was felt in several Afghan provinces including the eastern Nangarhar, Kunar and Laghman, northern Baghlan, Kunduz and the northeastern Takhar and Badakhshan provinces. (Afghanistan-Earthquake)

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SKOPJE -- Macedonian police used tear gas Sunday to stop several hundred migrants from the border camp Idomeni in neighboring Greece to cross illegally onto Macedonian territory.

The migrants threw stones at the police forces. Three Macedonian police officers were reportedly injured in the clashes and they were transported to the Medical Center in Gevgelija, the Macedonian Ministry of Interior confirmed. (Macedonia-Migrant-Clash)

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MOGADISHU -- African Union peacekeeping mission (AMISOM) troops and Somalia National Army (SNA) said Sunday that they have liberated Adan Yabaal town in Middle Shabelle region of central Somalia.

AMISOM said in a statement that the allied forces took control of the town after a major offensive against the terrorist group Al-Shabaab. (Somalia-Terrorism) Endi