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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Feb. 21

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At least 74 bodies of migrants who tried to travel along the Libya-Italy smuggling route were found along the seashore near Libya's northern coastal town of Zawiya, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said Tuesday.

IFRC said that the bodies were found by Libyan Red Crescent volunteers on Monday. (IFRC-Mediterranean-Deaths)

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PARIS -- Three men were detained on Tuesday morning in France on the charges of planning a terrorist attack, according to local report.

Citing a source close to the operation, AFP reported the anti-terrorist police arrested the three suspects respectively in Clermont-Ferrand, central France, in the southern city of Marseille and in Paris suburbs. (France-Arrest)

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KUALA LUMPUR -- Doctors found no sign of puncture on the body of a Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) man, who died at the Kuala Lumpur airport last week, as the cause of death is yet to be determined by results from a lab, a Malaysian health official said on Tuesday.

Medicolegal specimen taken from the DPRK man, which include fingerprints and dental ones, have been sent to a lab for further analysis to determine the cause of his death, Noor Hisham bin Abdullah, director of health in the health ministry, told a press conference. (Malaysia-DPRK-Death)

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JERUSALEM -- An Israeli military court sentenced on Tuesday Sgt. Elor Azaria to 18 months in prison after he was convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead a wounded Palestinian assailant last March.

A three-judge panel said the incident was "a one-time failure" for Azaria and therefore he deserves a relatively light punishment. (Israel-Palestinian-Ruling)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least six civilians were killed and 30 others, including five policemen, were injured after three suicide bombers tried to storm a local court in Pakistan's northwest Charsadda district Tuesday morning, hospital sources said.

Mukhtar, medical superintendent of a local hospital, where all the injured people were shifted to, said that initially they received four bodies and over 30 injured at the hospital. (Pakistan-Court-Blast) Endi