Xinhua world news summary at 0900 GMT, Jan. 28

KABUL -- Afghan government declared Sunday as a national mourning day to pay tribute to the Afghans who were killed in recent terrorist attacks, the Presidential Palace said in a statement on the same day.

Scores of people, mostly civilians, were killed and injured following a string of attacks in national capital Kabul, eastern Nangarhar and southern Helmand and Kandahar provinces. (Afghanistan-Attack-Mourning)

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NEW DELHI -- At least seven people including two police personnel were killed Sunday morning after a vehicle they were travelling in plunged into a pond in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, police said.

The car fell into a pond in Aligarh district, about 418 km northwest of Lucknow, the capital city of Uttar Pradesh. (India-Road Accident-Casualties)

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QUITO -- At least 23 police officers were wounded by a car bomb that exploded after midnight Friday outside a police station in Ecuador.

The powerful blast occurred in the border town of San Lorenzo near Colombia. It also ripped a three-story police station and destroyed several adjacent homes. (Ecuador-Blast-Police)

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

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