World briefs

THAILAND A Chilean cyclist’s quest to bike around the world in five years has ended with his death in a road accident in northeast Thailand. Police say the 47-year-old Juan Francisco Guillermo was hit by a pickup truck and immediately killed Saturday on a highway in Nakhon Ratchasima province. According to police and accounts on social media, Guillermo was attempting to set a Guinness World Record by cycling 250,000km in five continents in five years. His journey started in November 2010 and was scheduled to end in November this year.

YEMEN’s former president has arrived in the southern port city of Aden after fleeing the capital where Shiite rebels had been holding him under house arrest. Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s fall raises fears that notoriously volatile Yemen will fracture into mini-states, complicating American efforts to combat al-Qaida’s powerful local franchise, against whom Hadi had been a strong U.S. ally.

NIGERIAN troops retake a major border town and kill scores of Boko Haram fighters, Nigeria’s military says, although witnesses also report that the Islamic extremists killed scores in attacks on other villages.

ZIMBABWE’s President Robert Mugabe turns 91 with his supporters saying they will back him to run his full term until 2018 and beyond, despite nagging questions about his health and an economy that is crumbling under his watch.

USA Activists, actors and politicians gathered Saturday in New York City to honor civil rights leader Malcolm X with a ceremony at the Harlem site where he was killed 50 years ago. About 300 people converged to hear remarks from one of Malcolm X’s six daughters, Ilyasah Shabazz, as well as elected officials.

USA Two unfinished sketches have been discovered on the reverse side of two watercolors by Cezanne — and officials at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation museum says the collector who bought them more than 90 years ago probably never knew they were there.

USA-IRAN With only weeks left to the deadline to reach a first-stage nuclear deal with Iran, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that “significant gaps” remained and warned that America was ready to walk away from the talks if Tehran doesn’t agree to terms demonstrating that it doesn’t want atomic arms.

UK British police are appealing for information about three teenage girls who left the country in a suspected bid to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State extremist group.