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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, April 22

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A man was arrested Saturday afternoon at the North Railway Station in Paris after waving a knife to a gendarmerie patrol, local broadcaster BFMTV reported. (France-Man-Knife)

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NEW DELHI -- At least eight people were killed and more than four others injured in a crude bomb explosion in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal on Saturday, a police official said. (India-Crude Bomb-Blast)

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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan -- At least 135 Afghan military personnel were killed and over 60 others wounded in Taliban's attack on an army's corps base in northern province of Balkh on Friday, a provincial source told Xinhua on Saturday. (Afghanistan-Army-Base)

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SYDNEY -- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said here on Saturday that an aircraft carrier strike group led by USS Carl Vinson was steaming toward the Sea of Japan. (US-Vice President-Aircraft Carrier)

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MOSCOW -- Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a Commonwealth of Independent States draft agreement on the peaceful use of atomic energy, the Russian government said Saturday. (Russia-CIS-Nuclear Energy) Endi