Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Jan. 28

BRASILIA -- At least 14 people were killed and six others injured during a shootout at a club in the northeastern city of Fortaleza in Brazil, local authorities confirmed on Saturday.

The killings occurred in a dancing club named "Forro do Gago" on Saturday dawn when a group of heavily armed gunmen barged into the party and began to shoot at the people present. (Brazil-Shootout-Death)

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JERUSALEM -- Israel on Saturday denounced a new Polish bill which criminalizes any suggestion that Poland participated in crimes against humanity during the Holocaust.

The draft law, passed by the lower house of the Polish parliament on Friday, stipulates a maximum penalty of three years in prison for those who use phrases like "Polish death camps" to describe the killing sites operated by the Nazis in occupied Poland during World War II. (Israel-Poland-Holocaust)

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TEHRAN -- Iranian security forces killed five Islamic State (IS) militants in western Iran on Saturday, state IRIB TV reported.

The clash followed the incursion of a 21-member team of the IS into the country through the western borders. (Iran-IS)

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DAR ES SALAAM -- More than 2,000 Congolese have fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to Tanzania's western region of Kigoma seeking asylum for past one week, a senior government official said on Saturday.

Emmanuel Maganga, the Kigoma regional commissioner, told Xinhua on telephone that 800 of the asylum seekers were received on Friday and Saturday at the region's port town of Kibirizi. (Tanzania-DR Congo-Refugee) Enditem