Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Nov. 3

LONDON -- A train carrying 87 people derailed in northwestern England on Monday, disrupting rail services, local media reported.

The Avanti West Coast train traveling from Glasgow to London came off the tracks near Shap, a village in Cumbria, on Monday morning. Four people sustained minor injuries, though none required hospital treatment, according to the North West Ambulance Service.

Britain's Network Rail confirmed to local media that a landslip had occurred in the area before the train derailed. (UK-Derailment-Death)

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PRAGUE -- Former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis' ANO party on Monday signed a coalition agreement with the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) and the Motorists, paving the way for a new government.

The document outlines the main political framework of the coalition and will serve as the basis for the new government's policy statement.

"We will fight for the interests of the Czech Republic at all levels -- in the European Union, in NATO, and in the wider international community," said Babis. (Czech Republic-Politics-Agreement)

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NEW DELHI, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- At least 20 people were killed and many others injured Monday in a head-on collision between a bus and a gravel-laden dumper truck in the southern Indian state of Telangana, police said.

The accident took place on the highway near Mirzaguda in Chevella of Rangareddy district, about 58 km west of Hyderabad, the capital city of Telangana.

"This morning, a gravel-laden truck collided with a Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) bus near Mirzaguda village in Chevella on the Hyderabad-Bijapur national highway, killing 20 people and injuring many others, some of them seriously," a police official said. (India-Accident-Death)

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KABUL -- Police have arrested three individuals on charges of involvement in arms and ammunition smuggling in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, provincial police spokesman Mullah Assadullah Jamshid said Monday.

Acting on a tip-off, police launched an operation in Shurabak district recently and discovered two Kalashnikov assault rifles, a hand grenade, a machine gun, and hundreds of bullets and rounds, the official said.

According to the official, three individuals were attempting to smuggle the weaponry out of the country but police identified and took them into custody for investigation. (Afghanistan-Weapons-Smuggling) Enditem