Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, March 7

ADEN -- Four members of the the Yemen-based al-Qaida branch were killed by a U.S. drone strike in the province of Hadramout on Tuesday, a local security official told Xinhua.

"A pilotless plane of the U.S. Air Forces conducted a strike on a moving vehicle in Albar desert of Hadramout province, killing four members of al-Qaida network and destroying their vehicle," the source said on condition of anonymity. (Yemen-US-Airstrike)

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WASHINGTON -- White House National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn plans to resign, the White House said on Tuesday. (US-Gary Cohn)

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GENEVA -- Frightened wild elephants attempting to pass through a camp housing refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh's Cox Bazaar have killed 10 people, UN refugee agency UNHCR said Tuesday.

UNHCR senior environmental coordinator, Andrea Dekrout, briefed journalists in Geneva by telephone about the latest tragedy to afflict some of the refugees at the world's biggest refugee settlement. (UN-Bangladesh-Refugee)

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MOSCOW -- The Russian Defense Ministry said that the military transport plane that crashed in Syria on Tuesday was carrying 39 people, instead of a previous report of 32, when the accident happened.

A total of 33 passengers and six crew members aboard the An-26 plane were killed after the aircraft hit the ground while landing in the Hmeymim airbase in Syria, according to the ministry. (Russia-Plane Crash) Enditem