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Xinhua World News Summary at 1600 GMT, Nov. 11

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A number of 47,730 civilians have fled their homes since military operations to retake the Islamic State (IS) controlled Iraqi city of Mosul began last month, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported Friday. (UN-Mosul-Displacement)

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TIRANA -- A strong explosion took place Thursday night in the oil processing plant of Ballsh, Fier, central Albania, leaving one dead while five other employees were injured and sent to hospital, local media reported Friday.

Witnesses said the cause of such strong blast was the explosion of the hydrogen pump valve which led to a huge fire.(Albania-Oil plant-Explosion)

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HERAT, Afghanistan -- Two key commanders of the Taliban group were among 52 militants killed in Shindand district of the western Herat province, senior army commander in the western region Raz Mohammad Oryakhil said Friday.

"Two Taliban key commanders namely Mullah Nayeb and Mawlawi Mohib are among 52 armed rebels who have been killed in crackdown against enemies in the troubled Shindand district since Thursday," Oryakhil told Xinhua.(Afghanistan-Key Commander-Death)

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MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan -- Up to four people, all Afghans, were killed and 33 others injured in a deadly attack on German Consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday night, police here said Friday.

Mazar-e-Sharif is the capital of the northern Balkh province, 305 km north of Kabul. "It was a car bomb detonated next to the building of German consulate," provincial police chief Sayed Kamal Sadat told a press conference. Meanwhile, Zabihullah Majahid who claims to speak for the Taliban outfit in contact with media claimed responsibility for the attack.(Afghanistan-Attack)

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MOSCOW -- Russia's Defense Ministry said Friday that it has discovered proof of terrorists using chemical weapons against civilians and the Syrian military in the southwestern outskirts of the Syrian city Aleppo.

"Experts of the Russian Defense Ministry have found unexploded artillery ammunition of the terrorists containing toxic substances," the ministry's spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said in a statement.(Russia-Syria--Chemical Weapons) Endi