Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, April 25

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TRIPOLI -- A total of 272 people have been killed and 1,282 others injured in the fighting between the UN-backed Libyan government and the east-based army in and around the capital Tripoli so far, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday.

"Tripoli toll is now 272 dead, 1,282 wounded and more than 30,000 displaced," WHO tweeted earlier Wednesday. (Libya-Death Toll)

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SAN FRANCISCO -- U.S. top aircraft manufacturer Boeing Company said Wednesday that its revenues slipped by a slight 2 percent to 22.9 billion U.S. dollars in the first quarter of 2019 from 23.38 billion dollars in the same period of 2018.

In a report on its first-quarter financial results in 2019, Boeing said the profit fall was partially a result of lower deliveries of 737 aircraft after two 737 MAX jets were involved in separate air crashes of Indonesian Lion Air in October 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines in March this year. The two incidents killed a total of 346 people aboard. (US-Boeing-Revenues)

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LONDON -- People in Scotland should be given the chance before 2021 to vote for independence from the United Kingdom, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said in a major speech Wednesday.

Sturgeon made the call in a speech to the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood following the decision by the EU Council to extend Britain's membership of the bloc until October 31.

In her statement to MSPs (Members of the Scottish Parliament), Sturgeon said: "A choice between Brexit and a future for Scotland as an independent European nation should be offered in the lifetime of this Parliament." (Britain-Scotland-Independence)

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OSLO -- Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg is now open to bringing home children of Norwegian supporters of the militant group Islamic State (IS) if their parents give consent, newspaper Aftenposten reported Wednesday.

"We are now looking for the ways of keeping parents out of the possibility of family reunification. Foreign warriors with a background from other countries constitute a security risk for Norwegian society," Solberg was quoted as saying. (Norway-IS) Enditem

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