Xinhua world news summary at 0830 GMT, Nov. 18

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LOS ANGELES -- Four people were killed and other six wounded in a mass shooting at a family gathering Sunday in Fresno, California, 350 km north of Los Angeles, according to local police.

"Everyone was watching football this evening when unknown suspects approached the residence, snuck into the backyard and opened fire," said Michael Reed, deputy chief of the Fresno Police Department. (US-Shooting-Fresno)

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COLOMBO -- Sri Lanka's opposition presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who won Saturday's presidential elections, was sworn in as the executive president on Monday. (Sri Lanka-Taking Office-Gotabaya Rajapaksa)

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NEW DELHI -- At least 11 people were killed and 20 others injured, some of them critically, Monday in a deadly collision between a passenger bus and a truck in India's western state of Rajasthan, police said.

"This morning a collision took place between a bus carrying passengers and a truck here in which so far 11 people were killed and around 20 others injured," a police official in Bikaner said. "The injured have been removed to a nearest medical facility, where the condition of some of them is stated to be critical." (India-Traffic-Accident)

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KUALA LUMPUR -- A Malaysian court started hearings Monday on former Prime Minister Najib Razak over tampering the final audit report on state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad.

Najib showed up at the high court in Kuala Lumpur for the hearings together with his co-defendant 1MDB former CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy. (Malaysia-Najib Razak-Tamper) Enditem

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