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Xinhua world news summary at 0100 GMT, April 12

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Three explosions hit the team bus of German soccer team Borussia Dortmund ahead of its first game of UEFA Champions League quarter-final against AS Monaco Tuesday in western German city of Dortmund, injuring one player, local police said.

A letter claiming responsibility for the incident was found near the site, prosecutor Sandra Luecke told a press conference here, saying however the letter's authenticity wasn't confirmed. (Germany-Dortmund-Explosions)

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BELGRADE -- Repeated presidential elections ended at eight polling stations in Serbia on Tuesday, with incumbent Prime Minister and president-elect Aleksandar Vucic claiming victory the same day in the elections.

Around 9,800 out of Serbia's 6.7 million voters were eligible to cast their ballots at the polling stations in cities of Belgrade, Kraljevo, Pancevo, Vrsac, Zrenjanin and towns of Vrbas, Topola and Backa Palanka at Tuesday's repeated presidential elections, with no influence on the overall outcome of the elections. (Serbia-Presidential Elections)

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NEW YORK -- A 30-second video of a United Airlines passenger being forcibly removed from an overbooked flight has brought into light the lamentable, sometimes even "awful" customer service of America's airline industry that suffers a serious decline in competitiveness, U.S. experts say.

The disturbing video that went viral on social media Sunday evening showed the bloodied passenger, a 69-year-old doctor of Asian descent, was dragged off the plane by a Chicago Aviation Department security officer at the O'Hare International Airport after refusing to give up his seat as required by the crew. (United Airline-Fiasco)

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UNITED NATIONS -- Some 11 million people are in urgent need of food assistance in drought-plagued Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, regional representatives of the UN Children's Agency (UNICEF) and the World Food Program (WFP) said on Tuesday.

"In the Horn of Africa, we have a severe drought that's affecting three countries, primarily, Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia and in these three countries we see that 11 million people are in need of urgent assistance," WFP Regional Director for Eastern and Central Africa Valerie Guarnieri told reporters at UNICEF House, across from headquarters in New York. (UN-Food)

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MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow would demand a U.N. investigation of the use of chemical weapons in Syria as it expected new provocations with toxic agents in the war-torn Middle East country.

"We intend to officially address a relevant UN structure in the Hague and call on the international community to investigate thoroughly this incident, and to take a balanced decision depending on the results of the investigation," Putin said at a joint press conference with Italian President Sergio Mattarella. (Russia-US-Syria) Endi