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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, April 21

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Police on Wednesday fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesting students at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape Province as confrontations escalated.

Five students were arrested for suspected involvement in acts of violence, police said.

There was no immediate report of injuries.

The students, most of them female, staged the protest to press their demand for management to tackle rape culture on campus. The protest led to the suspension of academic activities. (SAfrica-Student Protest)

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SKOPJE -- The Macedonian Interior Ministry informed that 12 illegal migrants were discovered hiding inside a car near Demir Kapija road on Wednesday morning.

Police officials declared that the 12 migrants were found hiding inside a Volkswagen Passat near the village of Trevnik, center of Macedonia whereas the driver who was transporting the migrants managed to escape.

According to the police report, the migrants were from Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Macedonia-Illegal Migrants)

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MEXICO CITY -- At least 30 workers were injured on Wednesday when an explosion hit a petrochemical complex of national oil company Pemex in eastern Mexico.

The explosion shook the Pajaritos complex, located in the eastern town of Coatzacoalcos in the eastern state of Veracruz, Governor Javier Duarte said on Twitter.

Pemex, via its Twitter account, said at least 30 workers had been injured, up form an initial three, when the blast hit the Clorados III plant, owned by PMV, a Pemex joint venture with Mexichem. (Mexico-Pemex-Blast)

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ISTANBUL -- The police on Wednesday night detected a homemade bomb on Istanbul's Fatih Sultan Bridge linking the city's Asian part with its European side over the Bosphorus Strait, Turkish media reported.

The improvised explosive device was found on a motorcycle abandoned on one of the bridge's exit on the European side, the Hurriyet daily said.

It said bomb disposal experts were called to the scene and a controlled explosion was carried out. (Turkey-Homemade Bomb) Endi