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YEMEN

Suspected U.S. drone hits

militants' car; five dead

A suspected U.S. drone in Yemen's south targeted a car carrying al-Qaeda militants Saturday, killing all five passengers, Yemeni security officials said.

The officials said the attack took place in a mountainous area in al-Saied in the southern Shabwa province. One of those killed in the attack was a suspected al-Qaeda leader named Musaad al-Habashi, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

The United States considers al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to be the group's most dangerous branch in the world and has linked it to a number of botched or foiled attacks on the U.S. homeland.

The United States, which trains Yemen's counterterrorism forces, has launched more than 100 drone strikes against suspected al-Qaeda targets in the impoverished country since 2002, according to the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute.

- AP

ITALY

Migrants rescued at sea

The Italian coast guard and navy on Saturday rescued more than 300 migrants whose boats ran into trouble in the Mediterranean Sea and recovered 10 bodies. In a separate rescue, three Italian ships took aboard 281 migrants who said they were Syrian. - AP

PAKISTAN

Quake jars the northwest

A moderate earthquake struck northwest Pakistan on Saturday, causing panic in towns and cities, but there were no reports of casualties or damage. Mohammad Riaz, a senior scientist at the Pakistan Meteorological Department, said the magnitude 6.0 quake was felt in the city of Peshawar and nearby areas. - AP
FRANCE
Alleged jihadist expelled
France has expelled a 28-year-old Tunisian it accuses of running a jihadi recruitment ring that is sending fighters to Syria. An Interior Ministry statement Saturday said the man was sent back to Tunisia on Thursday. - AP