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| Israeli cabinet backs bill to force-feed jailed Palestinians on hunger strike | |  Israel's cabinet approved on Sunday a proposed law that would enable authorities to force-feed Palestinian prisoners who are on hunger strike, a practice opposed by the country's medical association. Israel has long been concerned that hunger strikes by Palestinians in its jails could end in death and trigger waves of protests in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan, who sponsored the bill, said the cabinet's support for the legislation would allow him to re-submit it to parliament for two final votes in the near future.
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| Israel issues its own Gaza war report, pre-empting U.N. inquiry | |  By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel issued a report on Sunday arguing its 2014 Gaza offensive was lawful, a move aimed at pre-empting the release of findings of a U.N. war crimes investigation that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scorned as a waste of time. The 277-page report, which cited Israel's internal probes and statements from Western leaders backing its right to self-defence, suggested the Netanyahu government hoped to defuse criticism from the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) inquiry in advance. Deeming the HRC biased, Israel boycotted its investigators as it did those from the council who looked into its 2008-09 Gaza offensive.
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| Britain pulls out spies as Russia, China crack Snowden files - report | |  Britain has pulled out agents from live operations in "hostile countries" after Russia and China cracked top-secret information contained in files leaked by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the Sunday Times reported. Security service MI6, which operates overseas and is tasked with defending British interests, has removed agents from certain countries, the newspaper said, citing unnamed officials at the office of British Prime Minister David Cameron, the Home Office (interior ministry) and security services. Snowden downloaded more than 1.7 million secret files from security agencies in the United States and Britain in 2013, and leaked details about mass surveillance of phone and internet communications.
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| South African court orders indicted Sudanese leader not to leave | |  By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African court issued an interim order on Sunday preventing Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir leaving the country, where he was attending an African Union summit, until the judge hears an application calling for his arrest. Bashir is accused in an International Criminal Court arrest warrant of war crimes and crimes against humanity over atrocities in the Darfur conflict. Judge Hans Fabricuis said if Bashir was allowed to leave the country it would damage South Africa's reputation, according to local media.
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| Sudan's Bashir in S.Africa for summit despite ICC arrest warrant | |  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir attended the African Union summit in Johannesburg on Sunday, putting host South Africa in a tight diplomatic spot because of a 2009 warrant for his arrest from the international criminal court in The Hague. "We are all happy to be here. There's no problem," the Sudanese presidency minister told Reuters. (Reporting by Ed Cropley; Writing by Joe Brock; Editing by Catherine Evans)
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| ICC calls on South Africa to arrest indicted Sudanese leader | |  The International Criminal Court called on authorities in South Africa to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who was due in the country on Sunday to attend an African summit meeting. Bashir is accused in an ICC warrant of war crimes and crimes against humanity over atrocities in the Darfur conflict. A statement issued by the court in The Hague asked Pretoria "to spare no effort in ensuring the execution of the arrest warrants." It said the court's members had "deep concern about the negative consequences if a member state failed to assist in detaining Bashir, who was indicted more than a decade ago.
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| Blatter may seek to stay as FIFA boss, source tells Swiss paper | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter may seek to stay on as the president of FIFA, a Swiss newspaper reported on Sunday, less than two weeks after Blatter said he would step down over a major corruption scandal at the organisation. Blatter is under pressure to step down for good as U.S. and Swiss authorities widened their investigations into bribery and corruption at the sport's global governing body.
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