Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Feb. 15

GAZA -- Gaza's Civil Defence agency said on Sunday that at least 11 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes across the enclave, revising an earlier toll of nine.

Civil Defence spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said Israeli aircraft carried out strikes from dawn to midday in several areas. (Gaza Strip-Hamas-Israel)

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ABUJA -- At least 11 people were killed and seven others injured after a bus and a truck collided on an expressway in Nigeria's southeast region, the traffic police said late Saturday.

Franklin Agbakoba, the sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Enugu, told reporters in the state capital Enugu that a total of 36 people were involved in the incident along the Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway on Saturday evening. (Nigeria-Car Collision)

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WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon said on Sunday that U.S. forces intercepted and boarded another Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the Indian Ocean overnight.

The vessel, named Veronica III, was tracked by U.S. authorities from the Caribbean Sea to the Indian Ocean before being stopped and inspected, the Pentagon said in a statement on social media platform X. (U.S.-Oil Tanker-Interception)

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SYDNEY -- One person has died and three others have been hospitalized following three separate stabbing incidents in western Sydney on Sunday.

Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said in a statement that emergency services were called to reports of a stabbing at a residence in Lethbridge Park, about 40 km west of central Sydney, shortly before 2 p.m. local time on Sunday. (Australia-Stabbing)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least 11 people were killed and 10 others injured after a passenger coach collided with a trailer on the National Highway in Pakistan's southern Sindh province early Sunday, rescue officials said.

The accident occurred in Khairpur district when the coach, travelling from eastern Punjab province to the southern port city of Karachi, rammed into a trailer carrying heavy concrete girders, according to Rescue 1122. (Pakistan-Road-Accident) Enditem