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Xinhua World News Summary at 1530 GMT, May 7

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Somali security forces killed a senior Al-Shabaab leader heading the group in Lower Shabelle region on Friday in southern Somalia, a government official confirmed on Sunday.

Information Minister Abdirahman Omar Osman said the security forces killed Moalin Osman Abdi Badil alongside his three associates in a raid in Bariiree area, but did not indicate if the same raid involved U.S. forces. (Somalia-Al-Shabaab)

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JALALABAD -- Up to 27 militants loyal to the extremist Islamic State (IS) group were killed and 13 others injured after the security forces aircrafts targeted the insurgents' hideouts in Achin district of Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday, spokesman for provincial government Attaullah Khogiani said.

"The security forces aircrafts conducted two sorties in Mohmandara and Kandarpisha areas of Achin district at 11:00 a.m. local time (0730 GMT) today killing 27 IS rebels on the spot and injuring 13 others," Khogiani told reporters. (Afghanistan-Militants)

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KAMPALA -- Seven people were killed and two others critically injured in a road accident on Saturday in the central Ugandan district of Masaka.

Lamek Kigozi, Masaka regional police spokesperson, told Xinhua that seven people aboard an Ipsum van died on the spot following a head-on collision with a Rwandan registered trailer at Mpungwe along the Kampala-Masaka highway. (Uganda-Road Accident)

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JAKARTA -- Whirlwind ravaged nearly 200 houses and about 140 hectares rice fields in Cirebon district of West Java province in western parts of Indonesia, a senior official of disaster management agency in the district said on Sunday.

"The whirlwind destroyed about 190 houses and rice paddy fields in Gunungjati and Suranenggala sub-districts," senior official at the agency Deddy Majmu told Xinhua over phone. (Indonesia-Whirlwind) Endi