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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Feb. 22

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JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian man was killed by Israeli troops during his arrest in the West Bank early Thursday morning, according to Palestinian sources.

The man was seriously beaten after he was laying on the ground incapacitated, before he died, said the sources.

The Palestinian Prisoners' Club identified him as Yassin al-Saradeeh, a 33-year-old resident of the southern West Bank city of Jericho. (Israel-Palestinian)

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LOS ANGELES -- SpaceX on Thursday launched its first two test satellites for its global broadband internet-in-space project.

The private U.S. space flight company plans eventually to create a giant constellation of about 12,000 of small satellites delivering broadband access around the world. (US-SpaceX-Satellites)

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GHAZNI, Afghanistan -- A Taliban attack in Afghanistan's eastern province of Ghazni left eight local policemen dead and another wounded, a provincial government spokesman said Thursday.

"Taliban militants attacked an Afghan Local Police (ALP) checkpoint, late on Wednesday night, in Rubat area of Deh Yak district, following which, eight ALP police personnel, including an ALP commander, were killed and another was wounded," spokesman Aref Noori told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Police)

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BELGRADE/WASHINGTON -- An unknown attacker threw an explosive device, probably a hand grenade, at the U.S. embassy in the Montenegrin capital of Podgorica, before killing himself with another bomb, local police confirmed on Thursday.

The blasts broke out at 00:30 a.m. local time (1130 GMT). "Immediately before the suicide, the person threw an explosive device into the compound of the embassy from an intersection near the sports center in Podgorica," the Montenegrin government quoted the police on its Twitter account. (Montenegro-US Embassy-Suicide Attacks) Enditem

 

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