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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Oct. 26

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier discussed the humanitarian situation in Syria's northern city of Aleppo and Syrian settlement over phone on Tuesday evening, said the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Lavrov stressed the inadmissibility of the actions of "Nusraa" terrorists and the extremists, who were blocking humanitarian supplies to the eastern part of Aleppo and obstructing medical evacuations from there. (Russia-Germany-Syrian Situation)

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BISHKEK -- The Kyrgyz government resigned Wednesday after the breakup of the ruling coalition.

President Almazbek Atambayev's Social Democratic Party left the four-party coalition on Monday as a result of infighting, particularly over constitutional reforms. (Kyrgyzstan-Government-Resign)

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FIROZ KOAH, Afghanistan -- About 36 civilians were shot dead by militants in Afghanistan's western province of Ghor Tuesday night, the provincial governor confirmed on Wednesday.

"The security forces and allied local uprising fighters repelled a militants' attack on outskirts of provincial capital of Firoz Koah late Tuesday. The clashes left several attackers killed and injured. The militants kidnapped civilians after the battle and killed them overnight in a bid to avenge their defeat," Governor Mohammad Nasir Khazah told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Militants)

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DAMASCUS -- At least 22 people were killed on Wednesday in airstrikes which targeted a rebel-held town in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib, a monitor group reported.

Half of those killed where children, as the airstrikes targeted a schools compound in the town of Hass in the countryside of Idlib, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Syria-Airstrikes) Endi