Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, April 20
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The death toll from Saturday's earthquake in northern Ecuador had risen to 480 by Tuesday morning, the government said.
About 4,027 people were injured and 231 more missing, Deputy Interior Minister Diego Fuentes was quoted by local daily El Telegrafo as saying. (Ecuador-Earthquake-Death Toll)
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HAVANA -- Cuban leader Raul Castro on Tuesday was re-elected the first secretary of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) at the the final plenary session of PCC's seventh Congress, Cuba's official state news agency Prensa Latina reported.
Raul Castro was re-elected by nearly 1,000 delegates at the meeting, including the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro, his elder brother, said Prensa Latina. (Cuba-Congress)
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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN Security Council on Tuesday condemned "in the strongest terms" a terrorist attack in the Afghan capital of Kabul, for which Taliban claimed responsibility.
"The members of the Security Council reiterated that terrorism in all its forms and manifestations is criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of its motivation, and wherever, whenever and by whomsoever it is committed, and should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization or ethnic group," the 15-nation UN body said in a statement. (UN-Afghanistan-Terror Attack)
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ANKARA -- Turkey's military killed 32 Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq's Mosul province Tuesday in retaliation to their attack on a Turkish tank in the Bashiqa training camp.
Ten militants were killed during the operation with an additional 22 killed as they escaped and hid in one of their buildings which was detonated, reported local NTV news citing anonymous Turkish military sources. (Turkey-IS-Clash) Endi