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Xinhua world news summary at 0930 GMT, April 7

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OTTAWA -- Fourteen people were killed and over a dozen others injured when a bus carrying a team of junior hockey players collided with a truck on a highway in southwestern Saskatchewan Province Friday, local media reported.

Police said 28 people including the driver were on the bus when the collision occurred on highway 35. The injured were sent to hospital, with three in critical condition. (Canada-Accident)

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JAKARTA -- Indonesian meteorology and geophysics agency said it received no immediate report of casualty or damages after a 6.4-magnitude quake in Papua New Guinea, an official of the agency on Saturday.

The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake at 6.3 magnitude. (Indonesia-PNG-Earthquake)

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SEOUL -- South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday held a working-level talks to discuss setting up a hotline between leaders of the two countries, Seoul's presidential Blue House said.

Three working-level officials from the Blue House and the unification ministry held talks with their DPRK counterparts for about three hours from 10:00 a.m. local time (0100 GMT) at Tongilgak, a DPRK building at the border village of Panmunjom. (SKorea-DPRK-Talks)

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NEW DELHI -- At least eight people were killed and five others injured after a speeding truck ploughed into two passenger auto-rickshaws in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh Saturday, police said.

The accident occurred near Majhgavan in the state's Katni district, some 350 km from Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal. (India-Road Accident) Enditem

 

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