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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, April 30

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Unidentified gunmen on Thursday night attacked a bar at Musaga in the south of the Burundian capital Bujumbura, killing five persons and injuring three others, police sources told Xinhua on Friday.

Violence is again on the rise in the east African nation and mainly in the capital Bujumbura. (Burundi-Killing)

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NAIROBI -- Several people are feared dead and others injured after a six-storey residential building in Huruma on the east of Nairobi, Kenya,collapsed on Friday evening following heavy rains.

There has been a heavy downpour in Nairobi in the past two days.

According to weather forecasts, the rains would continue in the coming weeks. (Kenya-Deaths)

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday announced the country's first Zika-related death in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico's Health Secretary Ana Rius said that the victim is a 70-year-old man who died in late February. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced 5 million U.S. dollars in funding to 20 health clinics in Puerto Rico to combat the Zika virus.(Puerto Rico-Zika)

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RAMADI, Iraq -- Iraqi security forces on Friday took two villages from the extremist group Islamic State (IS) in Iraq's western province of Anbar, killing 27 IS militants including six suicide bombers, a provincial security source said.

Iraqi security forces and allied paramilitary units have been battling IS militants for re-control of the areas in northern and western Iraq that has been seized by the IS since June 2014. (Iraq-IS)

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RIYADH -- The Saudi Interior Ministry said on Friday that the police have foiled a terrorist attack in the Asir region in the southwest of the country and killed the two attackers.

The spokesperson for the ministry, Major-General Mansoor Al Turki, said that the attack was prevented when the police chased two suspicious cars at a parking lot, one of which had explosives. (Saudi Arabia-Terrorism) Endi