Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, July 17
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JOHANNESBURG -- Two hundred and twelve people were killed in the past week's violent protest happening in the eastern regions of South Africa, said the country's Acting Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni Friday when briefing the media.
KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) reported 89 more deaths Friday, bringing the cumulative total to 180 fatalities, while Gauteng had a total of 32 deaths. The police has arrested 862 people in Gauteng and 1,692 more in KZN, according to the official. (South Africa-Unrest-Casualty Up)
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SHIBERGHAN, Afghanistan -- The Afghan security forces repelled an attack by Taliban on Shiberghan city, capital of Afghanistan's northern Jawzjan province on Friday, killing and injuring dozens of militants, local police said.
Sporadic fighting started early Friday when dozens of Taliban militants armed with guns and heavy weapons entered from two directions in the south and east of the city, provincial police officer Abobakar Jilani told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Jawzjan-Taliban)
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MOSCOW -- All people on board the An-28 plane that disappeared on radar earlier on Friday have been found alive after the aircraft made an emergency landing in Russia's Tomsk region.
Two children were among the passengers together with four crew members, local media reported. (Russia-Plane hard landing)
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TRIPOLI -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday announced evacuating 133 asylum seekers from Libya to Rwanda.
"On the first humanitarian evacuation flight this year from Libya, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has evacuated on Thursday evening 133 vulnerable asylum-seekers to Rwanda. The humanitarian flight had been on hold since April," UNHCR said in a statement. (Libya-UNHCR-Rwanda-Asykum seekers)
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BERLIN -- The death toll from the flood disaster triggered by heavy rainfall in western and southern Germany has risen to more than 100 as of Friday noon local time, according to police and local authorities.
The federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate were hit particularly hard, with 43 people and 60 people killed respectively. (Germany-Flood-Deaths) Enditem
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