Xinhua world news summary at 0100 GMT, Dec. 24

CHICAGO -- Eleven people have been wounded in shootings across the U.S. city of Chicago in the first 14 hours of the Christmas holiday weekend.

The most recent shooting happened around 12:50 p.m. Saturday. A 21-year-old man was sitting in his vehicle on the Northwest Side when someone walked up and fired shots at him before running away.(US-Shootings)

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MANILA -- About 37 people were feared killed after a huge fire devoured a shopping mall in the southern Philippine city of Davao, the local vice mayor said early Sunday.

The ground commander of the Bureau of Fire Protection said the "chances of survival is zero" for the 37 people, Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte wrote on his official Facebook page.(Manila-fire)h - - - -

MANILA -- The death toll from mudslides and flooding triggered by tropical storm Tembin has risen to 200, police said here late Saturday night.

Tembin has also left dozens of others missing as it has been pounding the southern Philippines and dumping torrential rains in its way since early Friday.(Philippines-Storm-Casualties)

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YAOUNDE -- At least three people were killed in two attacks by suspected members of terror group Boko Haram on Friday night and Saturday morning in Cameroon's Far North region, a local source told Xinhua.

According to a member of the local vigilance committee contacted by Xinhua, the first incursion occurred late Friday night in the Mayo-Moskota sub-division bordering Nigeria, when suspected Boko Haram members broke into the locality of Zeneme and killed two persons.(Cameroon-Boko Haram)

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ATHENS -- An elderly woman was found dead in snow on Saturday, and an aground freighter was rescued in the Agean Sea, as a cold front sweeps across Greece.

The 80-year-old victim went missing on Friday. Her body was found near her home in northern Peloponnese peninsula, southern Greece, according to local authorities.( Greece-cold front) Enditem