Somalia

Car bomb kills 11 in marketplace

MOGADISHU — A car bomb exploded near a police station in a busy market in the Somali capital on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and injuring 16 others, a police official said. The attack targeted a police station in Mogadishu’s Waberi neighborhood while President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud had been visiting a university, said Captain Mohamed Hussein. He said the death toll was likely to rise, citing the severe injuries of some victims. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. (AP)

Israel

Wind-driven fires reach West Bank

JERUSALEM — Fires raged in several locations across Israel for a fifth day Saturday, including in a Jewish West Bank settlement where 40 homes were burned and all 1,000-plus of its residents evacuated. After several days of extended fires that caused major damage in northern Israel and in the Jerusalem area, firefighters have managed to quickly gain control of most of the blazes that have erupted since. They got a major boost Saturday with the arrival from the United States of the Boeing 747-400 ‘‘Supertanker,’’ the world’s largest fire-fighting aircraft that is capable of carrying 75 tons of fire retardant. A special team of Palestinian firefighters also arrived to help, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to thank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for his support. The blazes were spread by unusually dry, windy weather. (AP)

South Sudan

Government OK’s more peacekeepers

JUBA — South Sudan’s government has accepted with ‘‘no conditions’’ an increase in the peacekeeping force in the country as mandated by the UN Security Council in August, Minister of Cabinet Affairs Martin Lomuro said Saturday. The additional peacekeepers were ordered by the UN Security Council after fighting killed hundreds of people in the capital, Juba, in July. (AP)