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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Sept. 25

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The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said the number of people fleeing to neighboring countries since the political violence broke out in April last year in Burundi has topped 300,000.

In a statement issued here Friday, UNHCR said the refugees- principally from Muyinga, Makamba, Cankuzo, Kirundo and Ruyigi provinces have fled to Tanzania, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda and Zambia in search of asylum or international protection. (Burundi-Refugees)

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LAGOS -- Authority of the Nigerian Army Saturday confirmed that gunmen suspected to be militants have killed one of its personnel in Bakassi area of south Nigeria's Cross River State in an attack.

Spokesperson for the Army, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, who disclosed this in a statement reaching Xinhua in Lagos, said the troops killed two of the militants in the attack which occurred on Saturday morning. (Nigeria-Attacks)

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SAN FRANCISCO -- A male victim who sustained life-threatening injuries in a mall shooting in Washington state passed away on Saturday morning.

Sergeant Mark Francis, a public information officer with Washington State Patrol, tweeted a message confirming the 5th fatality of the previous night's incident at Cascade Mall in Burlington. (US-Mall Shooting)

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CARACAS -- The border between Venezuela and Colombia was re-opened on Friday night in an attempt to allow heavy-loaded vehicles to pass between the two countries for bilateral trade, said the Venezuelan governor of the western border state Tachira, Jose Vielma Mora.

Close to midnight on Friday, Vielma Mora said that the decision taken to re-open the border was a response to an instruction given by Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro, the second stage in the "gradual and controlled" re-opening of the bi-national border. (Venezuela-Colombia-Border)

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ALGIERS -- One man was killed and more than 100 were injured when two trains crashed on Saturday in northern Algeria.

The accident occurred at 4 p.m. local time (1500 GMT) in the locality of Boudouaou, some 40 km east of the capital city Algiers, according to the fire fighting department. (Algeria-Train crash) Endi