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Xinhua world new summary at 1530 GMT, June 16

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Tens of people died on Wednesday during a protest by former militia fighters at Kamina military base in Lubumbashi, southwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), eyewitnesses have said.

A group of demobilized ex-militia revolted on Wednesday morning to protest the delay by DR Congo military authorities to re-integrate them.. No official source confirmed the incident on Wednesday. (DR Congo-Security)

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HANOI -- A CASA aircraft with nine people aboard lost contact Thursday afternoon while carrying out rescue mission in waters off northern Hai Phong city in Vietnam, an official from the National Committee for Search and Rescue told Xinhua.

The aircraft was carrying out searching mission for the SU-30 fighter jet which went missing Tuesday morning. (Vietnam-Airplane-Missing)

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CAIRO -- The Egyptian Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee said Thursday the cockpit voice recorder of crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 has been recovered but found damaged.

"The device has been recovered in several stages as it was found damaged, but the vessel managed to salvage the part containing the memory unit, which is the most important in the voice recorder," the investigation committee said in a statement. (Egypt-Crash-Voice Recorder)

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CAIRO -- Two policemen were shot dead in Egypt's North Sinai province, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Thursday.

Four masked gunmen approached the house where the two policemen resided in Al Arish, the capital city of Egypt's North Sinai province, and opened fire, according to the ministry. (Egypt-Sinai-Killing) Endi