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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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| Israel to issue its own Gaza war report, pre-empting U.N. inquiry | |  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 | |  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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| New York prison employee accused in escape plot moved to new lockup | |  A New York state prison employee charged with helping a pair of convicted murderers carry out an elaborate escape was moved on Saturday from a cell in the facility where she worked to a county jail about 165 miles (265 km) away, authorities said. Joyce Mitchell was transferred from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, where she worked as an industrial training supervisor, to Rensselaer County Jail near Albany. More than 800 local, state and federal officers are searching thick woods, homes and other outposts near the maximum security facility, 20 miles (32 km) south of the Canadian border, New York State Police said.
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| Mexico ruling party strengthens lower house hold - electoral body | |  By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's ruling party and its allies in the lower house of Congress extended their slim majority in last weekend's elections, according to a preliminary estimate from the National Electoral Institute (INE). President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the Green Party and the smaller New Alliance Party (PANAL) went into the vote with a narrow majority of 251 seats in the 500-member lower house. The other 200 lower house seats are divided up among the parties by proportional representation of the overall voting.
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| Suspect killed after attack on Dallas police headquarters | |  By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - A man attacked the headquarters of the Dallas Police Department with gunfire and explosives early on Saturday and was shot dead inside a van by police snipers, ending a standoff, authorities said. The hours-long drama began soon after midnight when the suspect, who identified himself to police as a man who had a history of delusions and criminal charges, riddled the headquarters with bullets, police said.
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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. The United States wants Snowden to stand trial after he leaked classified documents, fled the country and was eventually granted asylum in Moscow in 2013.
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