Xinhua World News Summary at 1530 GMT, April 22

At least 19 people were killed Friday in a devastating fire at a public distribution system (PDS) shop in central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, police said.

The fire broke out at Bargi-Harria village of Chhindwara district, about 272 km southeast of Bhopal, the capital city of Madhya Pradesh. (India-Blaze)

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NAIROBI -- Kenyan soldiers who are part of the African Union peacekeeping mission (AMISOM) on Friday killed 52 Al-Shabaab in an attack in southern Somalia.

Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) spokesman Colonel Joseph Owuoth said the soldiers also successfully destroyed an Al-Shabaab terrorist camp located 9km north of Sarira, Badhaadhe region of Lower Jubba. (Kenya-Somalia-Al-Shabaab)

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DAMASCUS -- Israel struck three Syrian military positions in the country's southern province of Quanitera on Friday, pro-government Sham FM radio reported.

The first strike, fired from the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, hit a Syrian artillery in the Khan Arnabeh area in Qunaitera, said the statement. (Israel-Syria-Attack)

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PARIS -- The armed man who shot dead a police officer in Paris' iconic Champs-Elysees avenue on Thursday did not show any sign of radicalization before the attack, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said on Friday.

"He was not on the security services' watch list and had shown no signs of radicalization despite his many years of imprisonment," Molins told reporters. (France-Paris Shooting ) Endi