Xinhua world news summary at 1600 GMT, Nov. 16

Troops from the Africa Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have killed 12 Al-Shabaab militants and captured a town in the past two days in southern Somalia.

In a statement received on Wednesday, the AMISOM said its troops and the Somali army killed the militants and injured 14 others in an ambush targeting the militants who were moving to Barire district in Lower Shabelle region on Monday. "A large cache of weapons" were seized. (Somalia-Al-Shabaab)

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SOFIA -- Bulgarian parliament on Wednesday approved the resignation of the GERB party-led coalition government and pushed the Balkan country towards political uncertainty.

As many as 218 members of the 240-seat Parliament supported the resignation, which Prime Minister Boyko Borissov submitted on Monday after the opposition-backed candidate Rumen Radev won the presidential election on Sunday. (Bulgaria-Government-Resignation)

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KABUL -- Up to four people have confirmed dead and 11 others sustained injuries in a suicide bombing on Wednesday morning.

A suicide attackers detonated his explosive device next to a vehicle in Pul-e-Mahmoud Khan locality close to Defense Ministry at around 08:00 a.m. local time, leaving four people dead including himself, spokesman for Interior Ministry, Sediq Sediqi said. (Afghanistan-Explosion)

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HOUSTON -- One person was killed on Tuesday afternoon following a shooting near the Will Rogers airport's terminal in Oklahoma City, capital of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

The shooting happened in a parking lot outside the terminal shortly before 1:00 p.m. local time (1900 GMT) and the 52-year-old male victim, a Southwest Airlines employee, was shot, and died later in a local hospital due to his serious injuries, according to local English newspaper the Oklahoman. (US-Houston-Shooting) Endi