PARIS -- A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed near the town of Lorient in northwestern France on Thursday, no casualties reported, local authorities said.

At 10:38 a.m. local time (0838 GMT), a Belgian military aircraft, with two people on board, crashed for unknown reasons, according to Morbihan prefecture. (France-Belgian Jet-Crash)

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ADEN -- A senior commander of the Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces and five of his bodyguards were killed in a bomb explosion in Yemen's southeastern province of Hadramout on Thursday.

"A roadside bomb blast struck a military patrol of the Saudi-led coalition forces in the historic town of Shibam in Hadramout province," said a government official who asked to remain anonymous. (Yemen-Saudi Arabia-Bomb)

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JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main rival, centrist Benny Gantz, claimed on Thursday victory in the closely-fought parliamentary elections.

In a broadcast statement on Israel's main TV channels, he called on Netanyahu to join him to a "broad, liberal unity government under my leadership." (Israel-Elections-Rival)

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LAGOS -- A health official in Nigeria on Thursday confirmed six cases of yellow fever in the northeast state of Gombe.

Nuhu Vile, an epidemiologist with the state health authorities, told media the confirmed patients were treated and discharged. (Nigeria-Health-Yellow Fever)

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TOKYO -- The Bank of Japan (BOJ) on Thursday voted to leave its ultra-easy monetary policy unchanged, despite a number of other global central banks cutting rates to underpin their economies amid uncertainties about global stability and growth.

At the conclusion of the central bank's two-day policy-setting meeting, the BOJ Policy Board opted to keep unchanged the short-term interest rate at minus 0.1 percent and and keep its long-term interest rates at close to zero. (Japan-BOJ-Rate) Enditem

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