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| Sudan's Bashir in S.Africa for summit despite ICC arrest warrant |
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 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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| Britain pulls out spies as Russia, China crack Snowden files- report |
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 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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| ICC calls on South Africa to arrest indicted Sudanese leader |
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 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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| Israel to issue its own Gaza war report, pre-empting U.N. inquiry |
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 By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will issue 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 dismissed as a waste of time. Launched after a surge of cross-border rocket fire by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups, Israel's two-month offensive last year, which included heavy shelling and air strikes into the densely populated enclave, killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, mostly civilians. Sixty-seven Israeli soldiers and six civilians in Israel also died in the conflict.
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| Blatter may seek to stay as FIFA boss, source tells Swiss paper |
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 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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