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Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Dec. 26

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A Russian military Tu-154 aircraft crashed into the Black Sea on Sunday, presumably killing all 92 people aboard, said the Russian Defense Ministry.

The ill-fated plane, en route to Russia's Hmeimim air base in the Syrian port city of Latakia, vanished from the radar screens shortly after takeoff from an airfield in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi at 5:40 a.m. Moscow Time (0240 GMT).(Russia-Plane Crash-Black Sea)

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MOSUL, Iraq -- A total of 97 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Sunday in heavy clashes with the security forces and an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition aircraft in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq.(Iraq-IS-Mosul)

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MEXICO CITY -- Residents of a small town in central Mexico woke up on Christmas Day to find six decapitated heads left out on the street, local media reported.

Near the heads authorities found a message scrawled on a piece of cardboard, but they have not released the contents of the message, the daily Excelsior said.(Mexico-Decapitated Heads-Christmas)

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NEW DELHI -- At least 25 people have been injured in a stampede at a crowded temple in the southern Indian state of Kerala late Sunday evening, a senior police official said.(India-Temple-Kerala) Endi