Pakistani officicals say suspected U.S. drones fired at least five missiles at a house in a tribal region near the Afghan border, killing 25 people.

Authorities say the attack Friday targeted a house believed to be a militant hideout in northwest Pakistan, about 35 kilometers from Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region.

At least two women and three children are believed to be among the casualties, but there was no way to independently confirm the report.

Mexican authorities have pulled about 30 more bodies from an unmarked mass grave in the northern part of the country.

Officials say the bodies were found near the city of Durango, capital of the state with the same name.

The discovery comes after authorities recently unearthed mass graves holding as many as 126 bodies in the northwestern state of Tamaulipas near the U.S. border.

Authorities have arrested at least 17 members of the Zetas drug gang for the killings, as well as 16 municipal police officers accused of protecting those who carried out the killings.

Pirates have hijacked an Italian cargo ship with at least 21 crew members in the dangerous waters near Somalia.

The European Union's anti-piracy force says the bulk carrier MV Rosalia D'Amato was seized Thursday in the Indian Ocean, 560 kilometers off the coast of Oman.

It says the ship's crew consists of six Italians and 15 Filipinos. Italy's foreign ministry, which confirmed the hijacking, put the number of crew members at 22.

The top U.S. military officer says Pakistan's intelligence agency still has connections to militants fighting in Afghanistan.

Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Pakistani media Wednesday that some members of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency have a long-standing relationship with the Haqqani militant network. Officials have for years suspected the ties, which Pakistan denies.

Mullen arrived in Islamabad earlier Wednesday for a two-day visit that includes talks with Pakistani Army Chief Ashfaq Kayani.

An international research group says violent extremism in Indonesia, such as a suicide bombing last week at a mosque in West Java, increasingly is the work of small groups acting independently of large terrorist networks.

The International Crisis Group said in a report Tuesday that an emerging pattern of violence involves targeted killings, rather than “indiscriminate” bombings. In Indonesia, the study's authors said, small local groups tend to carry out targeted-killing plots against police, Christians or members of a minority Muslim sect.

Prosecutors in South Africa have announced plans to file more charges against Henry Okah, the alleged mastermind of a deadly bombing in Nigeria last year.

News reports on Tuesday quote prosecutor Shaun Abrahams as saying the additional charges relate to a March 2010 bombing in the southern Nigerian city of Warri. Abrahams says Okah will be charged with terrorism and conspiracy for the blast.

Authorities arrested Okah in South Africa on October 2, a day after bombings in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, killed 12 people. The explosions occurred as Nigerians marked their Independence Day.

Security analysts in Indonesia say a suicide bombing at a police mosque that killed the bomber and wounded 26 people is part of a new terrorist strategy. Rather than attacking Westerners in hotels and embassies, they say, smaller groups of Islamic extremists have begun targeting police and Indonesians who speak out against religious fundamentalism.

The Mexican navy says it has captured the suspected leader of the Zetas drug cartel believed to be the mastermind behind the killings discovered recently in a group of mass graves in northeastern Mexico.

The navy said Saturday it has taken Martin Omar Estrada Luna into custody in San Fernando in Tamaulipas state where the remains of at least 145 people were found in graves last week. Five other people were arrested with him.

At least 26 people have been wounded in a suicide bombing at a mosque in Indonesia.

The attack came during Friday prayers in the town of Cirebon, in West Java.

The mosque is inside a police compound, and many of the wounded were police officers.

The motive for the bombing was not immediately clear, but Islamic extremists are suspected.

It was the first such attack on a mosque since extremists began attacking targets in Indonesia a decade ago.