Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, Dec. 14

Thirteen people died while five others sustained injuries in a road accident in Nigeria's northwestern state of Katsina on Tuesday.

The Federal Road Safety Commission, Nigeria's road safety police, said the accident which occurred on Malumfashi-Dabai road in Kafur local district of Katsina State, involved a Volkswagen wagon and a stationary truck.(Nigeria-Road Accident-Katsina)

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WARSAW -- Some 4,000 U.S. soldiers along with vehicles and other equipment will be deployed in Poland in 2017, a U.S. senior commander said on Tuesday.

Lieutenant General Frederick Hodges, commander of the United States Army Europe, said that at the start of next year, the troops would arrive in Germany from where they would continue on to Poland. (Poland-U.S.-Troops)

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NEW DELHI -- At least 12 persons have been killed and 23 others injured in a head-on collision between a speeding bus and an overloaded auto-rickshaw in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh late Tuesday evening, a senior police official said.

"The mishap took place when the auto-rickshaw (a commercial three-wheeler) carrying 16 commuters, more than its seating capacity, was hit from the front by a bus which was travelling at a high speed near Kishangarh Ghats in the state's Rajgarh district," he said, on condition of anonymity.(India-Mishap-Deaths)

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SANAA -- A U.S. drone strike killed at least four suspected members of al-Qaida network in northeast Yemen on Tuesday, a local security official told Xinhua.

The drone hit the suspects while traveling on a road between Marib and al-Jawf provinces, northeast of the capital Sanaa, the official said on condition of anonymity, providing no further details.(Yemen-Al-Qaida-Drone) Endi