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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Oct. 22

Xinhua, October 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

The death toll in the train derailment in Cameroon has risen to 63, the country's national radio and television station CRTV reported on Saturday.

More than one day after the accident which happened around 12:30 Friday local time (11:30 GMT) in Eseka station in Central Region, about 120 kms southwest of capital Yaounde, eight more bodies were discovered from the derailed train cars. (Cameroon-Train-Derailment)

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RIGA -- Growing global instability and tensions between Russia on the one hand and the West and NATO on the other were in the focus of the annual Baltic Forum conference, which took place in Latvia's seaside resort Jurmala on Saturday.

Opening the conference "Russia-EU: the challenges of interdependence and the setting of a new agenda", Nils Usakovs, the leader of Latvia's opposition leftist Harmony party and mayor of the capital city Riga, said we are living in times increasingly resembling the Cold War era and it is therefore necessary to seek solutions for closer cooperation between countries to make conflicts impossible. (Russia-EU-Forum)

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BANGKOK -- Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao paid his last respects to late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Saturday as a special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Li laid a white wreath and signed a condolences book to pay tribute to the late king on behalf of the Chinese government and the Chinese people at the Grand Palace where the late king's body lies in state. (China-Thailand-King)

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DAMASCUS -- Twenty Turkish tanks entered northern Syria on Saturday to support rebels in their fight to capture a town from Kurdish-led fighters, amid condemnation and threats from the Syrian government.

The Turkish tanks crossed the border into the northern countryside of the northern city of Aleppo, in a bid to help the Ankara-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) capture the town of Tal Rifaat, close to the Turkish border, from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which they have recently taken from the Islamic State (IS) group, according to the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV. (Turkey-Syria-Tank)

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NAIROBI -- The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said Saturday more than 33,000 Somali refugees living at Kenya's Dadaab camp have returned to their motherland since December 2014.

"In total, as of Oct. 15, 33,178 Somali refugees had returned home since December 8, 2014, when UNHCR started supporting voluntary return of Somali refugees in Kenya, out of which 27,077 were supported in 2016 alone," a UNHCR report said. (UNHCR-Kenya-Somalia) Endi