Xinhua world news summary at 0830 GMT, April 13

MOSCOW -- Seven U.S. military aircraft have conducted reconnaissance missions near the coast of Syria, where Russia's Hmeymim airbase and Tartus naval base are located, Russian military flight monitoring center said Friday on its Twitter account.

Six U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft departed from an airbase on the Italian island of Sicilia, and an EP-3E Aries II reconnaissance aircraft flew from the base on the Greek island of Crete, said the center. (Russia-US-Syria)

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MOSCOW -- A Russian helicopter with two crew members on board crashed in the Baltic Sea, killing at least one, Russian news outlet Sputnik reported Friday. (Russia-Helicopter-Crash)

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BERLIN, April 13 (Xinhua) -- A knife-wielding man who attacked and injured several workers at a local bakery in central Fulda city was shot dead by police, local media reported Friday.

Fulda police said they responded to a call at 4:30 a.m. (0300 GMT) that a man was attacking people at the bakery on Fleming Street. (Germany-Knife Attack)

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NEW DELHI -- Four members of a family were killed and three others injured in a fire at a four-storey building here on Friday, officials said.

"The fire broke out in the stilt parking of the building in Delhi's Kohat Enclave early this morning. A couple and their two minor children who were sleeping in their first floor flat died of suffocation while three other residents in other flats were injured," a fire official said. (India-Fire-Casualties) Enditem