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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Sept. 17

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said it is not discussing any financing program with Zimbabwe, which is pursuing a debt clearance plan with international financial institutions.

Zimbabwe in May hammered a plan to clear 1.8 billion U.S. dollars arrears to the IMF, World Bank and the African Development Bank (AFDB) to unlock fresh capital from the multilateral creditors, which suspended loans to the country at the turn of the century after it started defaulting. (Zimbabwe-IMF)

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KIEV -- The previous night in the conflict-torn eastern Ukraine has passed without any ceasefire violations, signalling that the week-long truce agreed by the sides is generally holding, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said Friday.

"All our fourteen locations in Donetsk and in Lugansk regions have reported that the last night was calm," Alexander Hug, the deputy chief monitor of the OSCE special monitoring mission to Ukraine, told reporters. (Ukraine-OSCE-Truce)

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ISLAMABAD -- Death toll of the suicide blast that hit a mosque in northwest Pakistan on Friday afternoon has risen to 23, officials said.

Deputy Administrator of the region, Naveed Akbar, said that the death toll rose after seven of the injured succumbed to injuries during treatment at different hospitals, adding that at least 29 others were also injured in the blast that ripped through the mosque during Friday prayer. (Pakistan-Blast)

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WASHINGTON -- A senior Islamic State (IS) leader who, as the extreme group's "minister of information," oversaw the group's production of torture and execution videos, has been killed in an airstrike in Syria, Pentagon said Friday.

"On September 7, coalition forces conducted a precision strike near Raqqah, Syria, that targeted and killed 'Dr. Wa'il,' also known as Wa'il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad, one of ISIL's most senior leaders," Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement. ISIL is known as IS in Syria and Iraq. (US-IS-Airstrike) Endi