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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Oct. 3

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Taliban militants attacked Kunduz city, the capital of Afghanistan's northern Kunduz Province, 250 km north of Kabul on Monday, triggering heavy fighting, security officials and locals said.

Hundreds of Taliban insurgents took positions in civilian houses around Kunduz city early morning and begun targeting government positions. (Afghanistan-Taliban)

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STOCKHOLM -- Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, the committee announced Monday.

The Nobel assembly at the Karolinska Institute decided to award the 2016 physiology or medicine prize to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy. (Sweden-Nobel Prize-Medicine)

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DAMASCUS -- At least two people were killed and 12 others wounded in two explosions near a main square in the central province of Hama on Monday, local media said.

Two bombers detonated their explosive belts in short succession near al-Assi Square, the main square in central Hama, state news agency SANA reported. (Syria-Hama-Bombings)

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TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday said that his government is not planning to issue letters of apology to Korean "comfort women" despite Seoul's expectations that Japan would take further measures to atone for its forcible wartime conscription of women to work in military brothels.

During a Diet budgetary committee meeting, the Japanese leader said that a deal struck between Tokyo and Seoul last December did not require Japan to issue such letters of apology. (Japan-"Comfort Women") Endi