Search on for Yemeni plane crash survivors; child rescued (Third Lead)

JOHANNESBURG/SANAA - A five year-old child was being brought ashore Tuesday, after surviving a Yemen Airways plane crash near the Comoros Islands, officials said.

Airbus 310 crashes off Comoros with 142 passengers, 11 crew; child rescued from the sea

MORONI, Comoros — Reports that a 5-year-old boy survived a jetliner crash in the Indian Ocean are now in question.

German foreign minister: 2 German women presumed killed in Yemen

BERLIN — Germany vowed Tuesday to do everything in its power to find and safely return a German family missing in Yemen, where three women who disappeared with them have been found dead.

Military: Gitmo detainee who died in apparent suicide had recently given up hunger strike

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay who died of an apparent suicide this week was not on a hunger strike at the time of his death, but he had been force-fed with a nasal tube in the past, a prison spokesman said Wednesday.

Obama sees Saudi king and touchstones of Muslim, Arab worlds on eve of ‘truth-telling’ speech

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Opening a mission to write a new chapter on Islam and the West, President Barack Obama consulted Wednesday with the Saudi king “in the place where Islam began,” prelude to a high-stakes speech in Egypt meant to ease long-held Muslim grievances against the United States.

Military: Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay dies in apparent suicide in cell

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay has died of an apparent suicide, U.S. military officials said Tuesday. His is the fifth apparent suicide at the offshore U.S. prison, which President Barack Obama hopes to close by January. The Joint Task Force that runs the U.S. prison in Cuba said guards conducting a routine check found Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Salih unresponsive and not breathing in his cell Monday night.

Saudi Arabia issues Al Qaeda ‘wanted list’

RIYADH - The Saudi government has published a list of 85 men worldwide it says adhere to ‘deviant’ ideologies, common Saudi terminology for Al Qaeda, the official SPA news agency reported.

Yemen releases Osama bin Laden’s ex-driver

SANA’A - Yemeni authorities have released the former driver of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden nearly two weeks after he was released from the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a family source said Saturday.