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Xinhua world news summary at 0100 GMT, Sept. 28

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The provincial court on Tuesday handed out 15 prison sentences for those considered responsible for the 2012 tragedy in the Madrid Arena.

Five young women were crushed to death in a stampede at a Halloween night concert in the tragedy. (Spain-Sentence-Halloween Tragedy)

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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated Jeffrey DeLaurentis as the first U.S. Ambassador to Cuba in over 50 years.

"Today, I am proud to nominate Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis to be the first U.S. Ambassador to Cuba in more than 50 years," Obama said in a news release issued by the White House. (US-Cuba-Ambassador)

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KIEV -- The death toll in spurious liquor poisoning case in eastern Ukraine rose to 28 after 17 other people died in hospitals over the past few days, the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection said Tuesday.

According to the statement on the website of the agency, 23 of the victims lived in Kharkov region, while five people were residents of Donetsk region. (Ukraine-Liquor Poison)

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KHARTOUM -- Two engineers working for an oil company were shot dead on Tuesday by unidentified gunmen at an oil field in Sudan's West Kordofan State, Sudan tribune reported.

"The incident took place at Ki area of Balila oil field in West Kordofan State when the two workers were performing their regular patrol on the oil wells," a source at Petro N.G, a Sudanese-Chinese oil company, was quoted as saying. (Sudan-Engineer-Shooting)

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government on Tuesday urged the Houthis in Yemen to immediately release any U.S. citizens being held.

"We are deeply concerned by reports of U.S. citizens being unjustly detained by the Houthi-controlled National Security Bureau in Yemen," said State Department spokesman Mark Toner in a statement. (US-Yemen-Release) Endi