In brief: Suspect arrested in Mounties’ killings

MONCTON, New Brunswick – A man suspected in the shooting deaths of three Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the wounding of two others in a rare case of gun violence in eastern Canada was arrested early today, police said.

Paul Greene, a spokesman with the RCMP, said Justin Bourque was arrested shortly after midnight. The 24-year-old Bourque had been wanted after the shooting Wednesday evening in the northwest area of the city.

A motive for the shootings was not known, and Bourque’s neighbors described a withdrawn man who collected guns and was an avid hunter of birds, deer and moose.

Bourque, who was armed with high-powered long firearms, was spotted three times Thursday but still managed to elude the massive manhunt that all but shut down this city of 69,000 people about 180 miles east of the Maine border.

Bourque was wearing military camouflage and carrying two rifles in a picture released by police on Twitter.

12 die in attack on Yemen army post

SANAA, Yemen – Al-Qaida militants on Thursday attacked an army post southeast of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, killing 11 soldiers and one civilian, security officials said.

The early morning attack took place in the Beehan area in the province of Shabwa, the officials said but provided no other details. Five soldiers were also wounded in the attack, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

The United States considers Yemen’s al-Qaida branch – known as Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula – to be the most dangerous affiliate of the global terror network.

The U.S., which trains Yemen’s counterterrorism forces, has launched more than 100 drone strikes against suspected al-Qaida targets in the impoverished country since 2002, according to the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute.