Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, March 1

WASHINGTON -- White House Communications Director Hope Hicks said Wednesday that she is resigning, becoming the third person to leave the post during President Donald Trump's tenure.

The announcement came a day after Hicks testified in Congress, during which she said she had told "white lies" while working for the administration. (US-White House-Resignation)

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GENEVA -- The Syrian people are facing a huge humanitarian crisis, but militants and their sponsors are preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid and evacuation of civilians in Eastern Ghouta, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday.

Lavrov made the statement while addressing the high-level segment of the 37th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council here and was referring to UN Security Council Resolution 2401. (UN-Russia-Syria)

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ISLAMABAD -- At least four security personnel were killed and six others injured in a suicide attack in Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta on Wednesday evening, local media reported.

Local Urdu channel Samaa TV quoted security sources as saying that a suicide bomber attacked the personnel present at a camp of Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force, in Nauhisar area located at the outskirts of Quetta, the provincial capital of Southwest Balochistan province. (Pakistan-Security-Attack)

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ADEN, Yemen -- At least nine Yemeni civilians were killed and several others injured by Saudi-led air strikes in two provinces of the war-torn Yemen on Wednesday, medical officials told Xinhua.

Local medical sources said about four Yemeni civilians were killed in airstrike that targeted a house in the northern province of Sa'ada, the major stronghold of the Shiite Houthi group. (Yemen-Strike) Enditem