Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Oct. 25

One police officer was killed while two others were injured in Lusaka, the Zambian capital, when another police officer shot at them after mistaking them for criminals, a police spokesperson said on Tuesday.

One of the injured police officers is in critical condition and admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at a hospital in the city. (Zambia-Police-Death)

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MOGADISHU -- At least two soldiers and a civilian were killed and five others injured in an attack by Al-Shabaab militants on a base of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in the central Somali town of Beledweyne on Tuesday.h AMISOM force spokesperson Joe Kibet said a suicide bomber detonated a car laden with explosives outside the entrance of the AMISOM base at noon, after which ten militants moved in and there was an exchange of fire. (Al Shabaab-AU Attack)

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BERLIN -- German police have carried out raids in a total of 12 apartments and a community accommodation in five German states during counter-terror operations since Tuesday morning, the Thuringia state office of criminal investigation (LKA) reported on Tuesday.

According to LKA in Thuringia, the states were Thuringia, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony and Bavaria. The police are supported by special police forces from other federal states as well as officials of the riot police. (Germany-Police-Raid)

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SRINAGAR, Indian-controled Kashmir -- At least seven civilians were wounded Tuesday in skirmishes between the troops of India and Pakistan on the International Border (IB) in Kashmir, officials said.

The two sides fired mortars and resorted to heavy firing in R S Pora sector, about 45 km southwest of Jammu city, the winter capital of Indian-controled Kashmir. (India-Pakistan-Kashmir) Endi