WASHINGTON — American Airlines is extending by over a month its cancellations of about 90 daily flights as the troubled 737 Max plane remains grounded by regulators.

American said Sunday it is extending the cancellations through June 5 from the earlier time frame of April 24. The airline acknowledged that the prolonged cancellations could bring disruption for some travelers.

The Boeing-made Max jets have been grounded since mid-March after deadly crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia. Airlines that own them have been scrambling other planes to fill some Max flights while canceling others.

American Airlines Group Inc., the largest U.S. airline by revenue, has 24 Max jets in its fleet. The Dallas-based airline said it is awaiting information from U.S. regulators, and will contact customers affected by the cancellations with available re-bookings.

Boeing and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said last week the company needs more time to finish changes in a flight-control system suspected of playing a role in the two crashes. In all, 346 people died in the crashes.

American’s reservations staff will contact affected customers by email or phone, the airline said.

Boeing said Friday that it will cut production of the Max jet, its best-selling plane, underscoring the mounting financial risk it faces the longer the airliner remains grounded.

Starting in mid-April, Boeing said, it will cut production of the plane to 42 from 52 planes per month so it can focus on fixing the flight-control software that has been implicated in the two crashes.

Yemeni officials: Warehouse blast kills 13, injures over 110

SANAA, Yemen — A large explosion at a warehouse in Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sunday killed at least 13 people, including seven children, and wounded more than 100, medical officials said.

The Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, who seized control of the capital in 2014, said the Saudi-led coalition had targeted the warehouse with an airstrike. The coalition denied carrying out any strikes in the area.

The state-run news agency in Aden, aligned with the internationally-recognized government, said rebels stored weapons at the warehouse.

The health officials said more than 110 people were wounded in the explosion.

The coalition has been at war with the Houthis since 2015 in a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and pushed the Arab world’s poorest country to the brink of famine.

$2.3 million accessibility system on Venice bridge to be removed

ROME — An Italian court has authorized the city of Venice to remove tracks and cars that were added to a Grand Canal bridge to make it more accessible for people with disabilities but hardly been used due to system flaws.

The mobility system was added to the Ponte della Constituzione (Constitution Bridge) at a cost of about $2.3 million and hasn’t worked well since it started running in 2013.

Visitors complained it was slow and the cars were unbearably hot during the summer.

A glitch trapped two Americans inside a car in May 2015.

The Court of Audit cited ongoing infrastructure costs in its decision sanctioning the system’s removal. It notified Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro on Saturday.

Mozambique fighting cholera nearly a month after cyclone

BOPIRA, Mozambique — Nearly a month after Cyclone Idai made landfall and unleashed flooding that reached the tops of trees, more than 1,300 people in the village of Bopira have been drinking from the local pond and whatever the muddy waters left behind.

Already a cholera outbreak has been declared in the regional city of Beira, many of whose half-million residents live in slums, and in a few outlying communities where thousands of people now huddle in displacement camps with few toilets and little clean water.

Confirmed cases of the acute diarrheal disease rose from five when it was declared March 27 to over 3,100, with six deaths, in the African country.

Nearly 900,000 oral cholera vaccines arrived last week in Beira for a mass vaccination.

Pakistan to free first batch of Indian fishermen

KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistani officials say they will release the first batch of 360 Indian prisoners detained for fishing illegally in the country’s territorial waters in the Arabian sea.

Prison official Munir Ahmed said Sunday that 100 prisoners will travel by train under police guard to the eastern city of Lahore before being handed over to Indian authorities at the Wahga border crossing Monday.

Pakistani and Indian maritime agencies frequently arrest each other’s fishermen on charges of illegal fishing.

Pakistan’s foreign ministry has said the remaining Indian prisoners will be released this month.

Tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors flared up in February after a suicide bombing in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir killed more than 40 Indian soldiers.

Volunteers, vets evacuate animals from zoo in Gaza

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Dozens of neglected animals were evacuated from a ramshackle Gaza zoo Sunday in the fourth and largest such rescue mission in the blockaded Palestinian enclave.

Vets and volunteers from Four Paws International transported about 40 animals into Israel from the zoo in the southern town of Rafah. The animals, including lions, foxes, monkeys, wolves and ostriches, will be resettled in sanctuaries in Jordan and South Africa.

Many of the animals were smuggled into Gaza via tunnels beneath the southern border with Egypt, which along with Israel has blockaded the territory since the Hamas militant group seized power there in 2007.

The blockade and three wars between Israel and Hamas have made life miserable for Gaza’s 2 million residents.

In South Africa: Five suspected poachers entered Kruger National Park last week to kill rhino living there, according to authorities. Only four of the men left alive.

The fifth was killed by an elephant and later “devoured” by a pride of lions, park officials said.

“Entering Kruger National Park illegally and on foot is not wise,” said Glenn Phillips, managing executive of Kruger National Park.

The four alleged poachers who survived were arrested and will appear in court “in due course,” the statement said. Authorities have launched an investigation.

South Africa is home to the continent’s largest rhino population — about 20,000 of the 25,000 living in Africa.