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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Oct. 28

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Hundreds of rescued migrants and refugees were brought to Reggio Calabria port in southern Italy on Thursday, along with at least 11 of 29 bodies overall recovered in a latest mission, Italian officers said.

In an earlier incident, over 90 migrants would be missing after an inflatable boat sank off Libya on Wednesday, Italian media reported. (Italy-Migrants)

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YAOUNDE, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 people were killed in an attack by suspected ex-rebel Seleka Thursday morning in Grimari in the center of Central African Republic (CAR), security sources told Xinhua.

The sources said the attack took place when the armed group raided Grimari town, 200 km east of capital Bangui and killed for unknown reasons at least 10 inhabitants and injured a dozen of others. (CAR-Violence)

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WASHINGTON -- Turkey has provided the United States with additional files for the extradition request of Fetullah Gulen, a cleric whom Ankara accused of orchestrating the failed coup in July, Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said Thursday.

At a news conference at the Turkish embassy in Washington D.C., Bozdag said the Turkish side submitted to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch three folders containing the additional information and documents requested by the United States. (US-Turkey-Gulen)

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UNITED NATIONS -- Russia on Thursday described the latest report by the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) in Syria as "unconvincing," saying that the report is "not substantiated by sufficient testimonial basis."

Vitaly Churkin, the Russian permanent representative to the United Nations, made the statement at a closed meeting of the UN Security Council to consider the fourth report of the JIM. (UN-Russia)

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NEW DELHI -- At least eight people were killed and several others were injured, some of them critically on Friday after a fire broke out inside a shop selling firecrackers in India's western state of Gujarat, officials said. (India-Fire) Endi