Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Nov. 19

Troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), alongside the Somali National Army (SNA), on Friday killed six Al-Shabaab militants in an area about some 35km northeast of the southern Somali town of Kismayo and captured a location.

AMISOM force spokesperson Joe Kibet told Xinhua by phone that the joint forces took the Bula-Gadud location and recovered weapons during the operation in Lower Juba region. (Somalia-Al-Shabaab)

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OSLO -- In a large-scale action in the past week, Norwegian police arrested 73 Afghan men who were to depart immediately as their asylum applications had been refused, newspaper Aftenposten reported on Saturday.

The National Police Immigration Service (PU) has released 11 of them after determining that they would not try to escape from the police before the departure. The others appeared in the Oslo district court on Wednesday and Thursday. (Norway-Immigration)

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SAN FRANCISCO -- A small plane crashed into a home south of San Francisco on Friday, with one dead and another wounded.

San Mateo County Fire Department said it received a report at 11:18 a.m. local time that a plane went down near the Half Moon Bay Airport, about 25 miles, or 40 kilometers, south of San Francisco on the U.S. west coast. (San Francisco-Air crash)

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ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistani Army said on Saturday that unprovoked Indian firing across the Line of Control (LoC) killed two girls.

"Two girls were martyred and three persons injured in unprovoked firing by the Indian troops in Singhala Village of Khoi Ratta along the Line of Control," the Inter-Services Public Relations said in a statement. (Pakistan-India-Firing) Endi