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Xinhua world news summary at 1545 GMT, April 21

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Two police personnel were killed in a bomb attack in eastern Afghan province of Kunar on Thursday, police said.

"Two Afghan Local Police (ALP) members died following an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Marawra District Thursday morning," provincial police Chief Gen. Abdul Habib Sayyedkhel told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Attacks)

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NEW DELHI -- One person was killed and several others injured Thursday during stray incidents of election-related violence in India's eastern state of West Bengal, officials said.

The third phase of polling for local elections in the state began in the morning and according to officials during the first four hours about 40 percent polling was recorded. (India-West Bengal Elections-Violence)

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KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia has been given greenlight to search for more possible debris of missing Malaysia Airline flight MH370 in waters near Mozambique and South Africa, officials said Thursday.

Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said the Mozambique and South African governments have agreed to further search efforts, according to the state news agency Bernama. (Malaysia-MH370)

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ANKARA -- Human trafficking is decreasing significantly in Aegean Sea, but smugglers may rapidly change routes, NATO head said on Thursday.

"Figures showed that numbers of refugees crossing the Aegean Sea is now going significantly down," said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at at a joint press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara. (Turkey-NATO-Refugees)

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BRUSSELS -- The European Union (EU) on Thursday called for the swift ratification of the Paris climate agreement.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Commission Vice-President responsible for the Energy Union Maros Sefcovic, and Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete are attending the high-level signing ceremony this Friday in New York. (EU-Climate Deal) Endi