Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, March 27

WINDHOEK-- Namibian President Hage Geingob on Tuesday left for China for a seven-day state visit.

In an interview with Xinhua in Windhoek, Geingob said that China had witnessed spectacular growth over the past four decades with average GDP growth at around 10 percent and lifted more than 800 million people out of poverty, which was nothing short of a miracle. (Namibia-China-Visit)

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CAIRO -- Polls opened Tuesday for the second day of Egypt's presidential election, in which incumbent President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is expected to score a landslide victory.

Polling stations in Egypt's 27 provinces opened at 9 a.m. local time (0700 GMT) Tuesday for voters to cast their ballots. The first day of voting on Monday went smoothly despite fears about possible disruption by terror attacks. (Egypt-Presidential Election-Polls)

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BRUSSELS -- NATO decided Tuesday to withdraw the accreditation of seven staff at the Russian Mission to NATO in response to the row over the poisoning of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain on March 4.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in a statement that the intensive consultations have taken place among NATO allies following the "attack in Salisbury" against Skripal and his daughter. (NATO-Russia-Diplomats)

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NEW DELHI -- Police in India's western state of Maharashtra have seized 292 low-intensity crude bombs, officials said Tuesday.

The bombs were recovered from a person in Thane, 22 km north of Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra.

"Police recovered 292 low-intensity crude bombs and arrested a person for illegally possessing the explosives," a police official in Mumbai said. (India-Crude Bombs) Enditem