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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, April 24

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The death toll of the deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the northern Pacific coast of Ecuador on April 16 has risen to 646, said President Rafael Correa Saturday.

In a televised speech, the president said that 12,499 were wounded, 130 missing and 26,091 living in shelters with close to 7,000 buildings destroyed. Some 14,000 security personnel were keeping order in quake-hit areas. (Ecuador-Earthquake)

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PYONGYANG -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced it has conducted a successful underwater test-fire of strategic submarine ballistic missile and the top leader Kim Jong Un guided the test-fire, the official KCNA news agency reported Sunday.

The test-fire aimed to "confirm the stability of the underwater ballistic launching system in the maximum depth of waters, flying kinetic feature under the vertical flight system of the ballistic missile powered by the newly developed high-power solid fuel engine, the reliability of the phased heat separation and the working accuracy of nuclear detonating device of the warhead." (DPRK-Missile)

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ANKARA -- The European Union (EU) would spend one billion euros (about 1.12 billion U.S. dollars) by July for projects aiming to improve the living condition of Syrian migrants in Turkey, EU Deputy Commissioner Frans Timmermans said Saturday.

After visiting Nizip 1 camp and child protection center in Turkey's southeastern Gaziantep province bordering Syria, Timmermans said the biggest challenge is the education of Syrians, hailing Turkey's efforts as the "best example" on how refugees should be treated. (Turkey-EU-Refugee)

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DAMASCUS -- Russian cargo aircrafts dropped food parcels and medical kits over a district besieged by the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour on Saturday, a military source told Xinhua.

The cargo planes airdropped the aid to the trapped people of the Harabish district, which has long been besieged by the IS terror group, said the source on condition of anonymity. (Russia-Syria-Aid) Endi