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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Dec. 26

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A man, his wife and their child were Sunday night killed by people armed with machetes at Muyange in Bubanza province, 30km west of the Burundian capital Bujumbura, the police said on Monday.

"A man, his wife and their child were intercepted at Muyange around 20:00 (18:00 GMT) as they were walking to their home. The criminals had machetes that they used to kill the victims," said Burundian Police Deputy-Spokesman Moise Nkurunziza. (Burundi-Killing)

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LONDON -- Britain's longest serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth, missed her Christmas Day visit to church for the first time in decades because of illness.

The church visit on the day is also a traditional family event.

The tradition started when the royal household started to spend Christmas at the Queen's private estate at Sandringham. (Britain-Queen Elizabeth)

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MOSCOW -- The flight recorders of the Russian military Tu-154 aircraft that crashed into the Black Sea on Sunday could remain intact, a senior official was quoted as saying on Monday.

"Flight recorders will definitely be raised when the plane is found on the sea floor, we know where they are; they are in the fin," the Interfax news agency quoted Russian Airspace Forces Commander-in-Chief Viktor Bondarev as saying. (Russia-Plane Crash)

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SHIBIRGHAN, Afghanistan -- Three Afghan civilians were shot dead in northern Jawzjan province Sunday night, a local official said on Monday.

"Security forces repelled a militants' attack on outskirts of provincial capital Shibirghan on Sunday. The clashes left five attackers killed and several injured. But militants kidnapped several villagers in neighboring Darzab district after the battle," provincial Deputy Governor Abdul Rahman Mahmood told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Attack)

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RABAT -- Nine people were killed and 45 others injured, including 15 in critical conditions, in a road accident that occurred in northern Morocco on Sunday.

Local authorities in the city of Fez pointed out on Monday that the accident occurred when a bus, carrying a group of young people coming back from a picnic, overturned on the road linking the cities of Fez and Sidi Kacem. (Morocco-Road Accident) Endi