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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, April 2

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Three people were killed and around 30 others were injured in a bus accident in central Sweden, Swedish Television reported on Sunday.

The accident occurred at about 7:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) Sunday morning when a school bus rolled over on a main highway between the town of Sveg and Fagelsjo in the northern region of Harjedalen, central Sweden. (Sweden-Bus Accident)

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MOGADISHU -- At least two people were killed in a landmine explosion in southern Somalia on Saturday evening, a government official said Sunday.

Information Minister for Hirshabelle State Mahad Hassan told Xinhua by phone that the blast at an area near Mahaday district in Middle Shabelle region left two siblings dead. (Somalia-Landmine Explosion)

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CAIRO -- Egypt's Cairo Court for Urgent Matters ruled Sunday that the country's High Administrative Court, which ruled in January that Tiran and Sanafir Red Sea islands are Egyptians, had no jurisdiction over the matter, state-run Ahram Online website reported.

In April last year, Egypt's government signed an agreement to place both islands under Saudi Arabian sovereignty, saying that they had always belonged to the oil-rich Arab country and that Egypt had been merely administering them on behalf of the kingdom since the 1950s. (Egypt-Saudi-Islands)

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NEW DELHI -- At least 11 bodies were recovered Sunday from a canal in northern Indian state of Haryana, police said.

The bodies were recovered during dredging of Bhakhra canal near Narwana in Jind district of Haryana, about 181 km north of Delhi, the capital of India. (India-Body)

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YANGON -- The ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) of Myanmar, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, has won nearly half number of parliamentary seats in Saturday's by-elections, according to the final results released by the Union Election Commission Sunday afternoon.

Of the 19 parliamentary seats contested in the election, the NLD won a total of nine seats -- five with the House of Representatives (Lower House), three with the House of Nationalities (Upper House) and one with the Shan state parliament. (Myanmar-Election) Endit