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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Aug. 10

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At least three civilians have been confirmed dead and four others injured as a rocket fired by Taliban militants struck a vehicle in the northern Baghlan province on Wednesday, police said.

According to police spokesman Jawed Basharat, the incident occurred outside provincial capital Pul-e-Khumri where Taliban militants and government forces were engaged in fighting. (Afghanistan-Rocket Attack)

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ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told the parliament on Wednesday that his government will pursue anti-terror fight with more strength, days after a bomber killed over 70 people in the southwestern city of Quetta.

Daesh and a breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed the responsibility for the attack on Aug. 8 that also prompted high level security meetings to explore ways how to counter the threat by the terrorists who are now killing civilians. (Pakistan-Anti-Terror Fight)

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BANGKOK -- Thailand's Election Commission said on Wednesday a draft constitution was approved in the country's second-ever national referendum, as 61.35 percent and 58.07 percent of Thais voted "Yes" to the new charter and an additional question, respectively.

The official results showed the new constitution draft won 16,820,402 votes, or 61.35 percent of total voters, while 10,598,037 people or 38.65 percent rejected it in the country's second referendum on a draft constitution on Sunday, said EC chairman Supachai Somcharoen. (Thailand-Referendum)

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BAGHDAD -- At least two soldiers were killed and eight others wounded Wednesday in a suicide bomb attack at a military base in a town south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a police source said.

A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest at the entrance of an army base at the town of Latifiyah, some 40 km south of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. (Iraq-Attack)

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CAIRO -- The Egyptian Foreign Ministry voiced rejection of a recent report by the British Home Office offering political asylum to top members and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group that is currently outlawed in the Arab country, official MENA news agency reported Tuesday.

"What has been issued by the British Home Office regarding the Brotherhood includes signs that we do not consider positive, nor do we consider as having a positive effect on the Egyptian-Britain relations," MENA quoted Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry as saying. (Egypt-Britain-Asylum) Endi