Xinhua world news summary at 0830 GMT, Dec. 25

MANILA -- Twenty people were killed while 27 others injured on Monday when a passenger jeepney collided with a bus in a northern Philippine province, police said.

Chief Inspector Roy Villanueva, police chief of the town of Agoo in La Union province in Luzon, said the collision happened at about 3:30 a.m. in San Jose village in the town of Agoo, some 200 km north of Manila. (Philippines-Road Collison)

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LONDON -- British Princess Michael of Kent has apologized for wearing a controversial brooch to a Christmas banquet held at Buckingham Palace Thursday.

The brooch, featuring a black man in a gold headdress, is considered by some critics as bearing demeaning images of Africans. (Britain-Royal)

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LIMA -- Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski on Sunday pardoned former leader Alberto Fujimori who had been serving a 25-year jail term, citing his health condition, the presidential office said in a statement.

"The president ... has decided to grant a humanitarian pardon to Mr. Alberto Fujimori ... as he suffers a progressive, degenerative and incurable disease," the statement said.

Fujimori, 79, was transferred from his cell to a hospital on Saturday after his blood pressure dropped. (Peru-Fujimori-Pardon)

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MANILA -- The severe tropical storm that ravaged the southern Philippines last week has left 164 people dead and 171 more missing, the government said on Monday.

Tropical Storm Tembin started lashing parts of Mindanao on Friday, triggered massive flash flooding and mudslides in the region. Nearly 98,000 people, mostly from poor farmer families, spent their Christmas holidays in 261 government evacuation centers. (Philippines-Storm-Death) Enditem