Xinhua world news summary at 0830 GMT, March 11
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KABUL -- At least 14 fighters, including 10 Taliban militants and four security personnel, were killed following a fierce clash in Afghanistan's western Badghis province, an official said Monday.
The clash erupted Sunday night after the Taliban militants stormed security checkpoints in Bala Murghab district of the province, leaving four government troops dead and four others wounded, said Jamshid Shahabi, the provincial governor's spokesman. (Afghanistan-Taliban-Clash)
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ADDIS ABABA -- Ethiopian Airlines has grounded its Boeing 737 MAX 8 fleet on Sunday after a crash of the same type that killed 157 people.
"Following the Tragic accident of ET 302/10 ... Ethiopian Airlines has decided to ground all B-737-8 MAX fleet effective yesterday March 10, 2019, until further notice," said the carrier on its Twitter account. (Ethiopian Airlines-Boeing-Plane Crash)
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NEW YORK -- The reported presence of an active shooter inside the New York-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, the U.S. state of New York, has been confirmed as a false alarm, local law enforcement officials said Sunday night.
New York State Police and Westchester County Police officials responded to a report at around 9:00 p.m. local time (0100 GMT on Monday) of an armed man on the hospital building's sixth floor, local media reported earlier. (New York-Shooting Report-False Alarm)
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CARACAS -- Classes and all work activities will be suspended on Monday due to a prolonged national power outage, Venezuela's Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez said Sunday.
"We'd like to inform that President Nicolas Maduro has decided that all classes and work activities will be suspended on Monday, March 11," the minister told the state-run television station VTV. (Venezuela-Outage)
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SHAH ALAM, Malaysia -- Malaysia released Siti Aisyah, an Indonesian woman, on Monday after prosecutors withdrew the murder charge against her for the death of a man from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) at a Malaysian airport in 2017.
Aisyah has been charged alongside Vietnamese national Doan Thi Huong of killing the DPRK man by smearing VX nerve agent on the man's face at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in February 2017. (Malaysia-DPRK-Murder Charge) Enditem
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