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MADRID, 02 (SERVIMEDIA)

Shanghái (China), 28 mar (EFE).- La aerolínea China Southern, la mayor de Asia por número de pasajeros, anunció hoy un acuerdo con la estadounidense American Airlines por el que amplía su capital y le vende el 2,68 % del total del nuevo accionariado por 200 millones de dólares.

By Aref Mohammed

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian security forces arrested seven Islamist gunmen on Tuesday in the remote southern area of In Amenas, close to the gas plant where a deadly attack took place in January 2013, the country's defence ministry said.

ADEN (Reuters) - Three senior southern Yemeni officials survived a suicide car bomb attack on their convoy in Aden and a subsequent gun battle that killed three of their guards on Tuesday, a government spokesman and security sources said.

ADEN (Reuters) - The governor of Aden and two other senior southern Yemeni officials survived a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attack on their convoy in the port city on Tuesday, a government official said.

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army said its troops entered a rebel-held town in the southern province of Deraa on Wednesday in an assault which rebels say was aided by the heaviest Russian aerial bombing campaign so far in the south.