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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Oct. 5

Xinhua, October 5, 2016 Adjust font size:

At least 60 people were either killed or wounded on Wednesday by U.S.-led airstrikes on a village in the northern province of Aleppo, state news agency SANA reported. (Syria-US-Airstrikes)

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TEHRAN -- Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Wednesday that all military vessels partaking in Saudi Arabia's ongoing wargames in the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz, should keep off from Iranian waters. (Iran-Saudi Arabia-Wargames)

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MOSUL, Iraq -- U.S.-led coalition warplanes mistakenly struck pro-government fighters at a village in south of the city of Mosul, the last major Islamic State (IS) stronghold in Iraq, leaving 18 fighters killed and five others wounded, a provincial security source said on Wednesday. (Iraq-US-Mosul)

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KABUL -- Six civilians sustained injuries as a suicide bomber targeted a bus of the Ministry for Mines and Petroleum here in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, a police officer said. (Afghanistan-Bus-Bomb)

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ADDIS ABABA -- Ethiopia and Djibouti on Wednesday launched Africa's first modern electrified railway connecting their capitals. (Ethiopia-Djibouti-Electrified Railway)

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GAZA -- Israeli war jets carried out a series of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday afternoon in response to rocket firing from Gaza into southern Israel, Hamas security officials said. (Israel-Gaza-Airstrikes)

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BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi Foreign Ministry on Wednesday summoned the Turkish ambassador to Baghdad over recent statements by Turkish leaders ahead of the imminent battles to flush out Islamic State (IS) militants from their last major stronghold in Mosul. (Iraq-Turkey-Ambassador) Endi