Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, July 13
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Nigerian authorities have nabbed 11 suspected kidnappers of the Deputy High Commissioner of Sierra Leone to Nigeria, Maj-Gen. Alfred Claude-Nelson, police said Tuesday.
The suspects were arrested through coordinated police operation, Don Awunah, national police spokesperson told reporters in Abuja, the country's capital city.
Claude-Nelson was kidnapped on June 30 along Kaduna-Abuja Road by suspected gunmen and freed on July 5. (Nigeria-Kidnapping)
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THE HAGUE -- The tribunal handling the South China Sea arbitration case unilaterally initiated by the former Philippine government issued its final award on Tuesday, amid a global chorus that the panel has no jurisdiction and its decision is naturally null and void.
In the 479-page award, the five-member tribunal sweepingly sided with the claims filed by the administration of former Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III. (South China Sea-Arbitration)
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Capitol complex was briefly placed on lockdown on Tuesday after reports of a possible active shooter around the complex.
According to local police, the Capitol Hill and all buildings in the Capitol complex were placed on lockdown around 4:20 p.m. local time while police were checking reports that a suspect with a gun appeared outside the building of the U.S. Labor Department two blocks from the Capitol Hill.
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NEW DELHI -- The death toll in floods in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has risen to 22, with seven more people dying in the past 24 hours.
"As per our records, 22 people have died in flood-related incidents in the state and some nine people are missing," a senior government official told the media in state capital of Bhopal Tuesday. (India-Flood) Endi