Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, May 27

The mastermind and four accomplices were sentenced Friday to life in prison for involvement in twin bombings that killed 76 people in the Ugandan capital Kampala in 2010, according to a Ugandan court. (Uganda-Bombings)

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ROME -- Some 4,100 people were rescued off the Libyan coasts on Thursday, Italian officials said.

Overall, twenty-two operations were carried out to assist migrants and refugees sailing aboard overcrowded crafts in the Strait of Sicily, between Italy and Libya, a coast guard spokesman told Xinhua.

The operations involved Italy's navy ships and coast guard patrol boats, along with other forces from the European Union (EU) naval mission EUNAVFOR MED and EU borders agency Frontex, according to the coast guard. (Italy-Refugee)

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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- A huge fire on Friday killed one person in a two-story building in the center of the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, local authorities said.

The fire burned an area of 400 square meters and the body of a woman was found in a room in the building, the local department of Emergency Management said in a statement. (Russia-Fire)

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NEW DELHI -- Three people were killed and three others went missing after an overcrowded boat capsized in India's eastern state of Bihar, officials said Friday.

The boat capsized on Thursday night in the river Ganga at Manihari in Katihar district, about 305 km east of Patna city, the capital of Bihar. (India-Capsize)

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ANKARA -- Twenty-eight miners on a hunger strike inside a mine in Turkey's northern province of Zonguldak over unpaid salaries have blocked access to their location amid rising concerns over their health condition, Hurriyet News reported Friday.

"We haven't been able to get any news from inside since 4 p.m. (Thursday). They abandoned themselves to death," the miners' representative, Omer Kaplan, who exited the mine on Thursday after nine days due to health problem, told Hurriyet. (Turkey-Strike) Endi