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| Eight Tunisian workers kidnapped in Libya - state radio | | | Eight Tunisian citizens working in Libya's capital Tripoli have been kidnapped not far from the city, a local politician told Tunisian state radio on Sunday, two days after gunmen snatched 10 staff from the Tunisian consulate. Libya is in turmoil, with two rival governments and their armed factions battling for control. "Eight young Tunisians were kidnapped... close to Tripoli," local lawmaker Hussein Yahyaoui told state Tataouin Radio. |
| Egypt prosecutor refers 58 Brotherhood supporters to military prosecution | | | Egypt's public prosecutor on Sunday referred the case of 58 suspected Muslim Brotherhood supporters accused of committing "terrorist acts" to the military prosecutor, a step that could lead to a military trial even though they are civilians. Thousands of Islamists have been jailed and hundreds sentenced to death since the government launched a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013, saying they pose a threat to Egypt's national security. "Public Prosecutor Hesham Barakat ordered the referral of 58 defendants belonging to the Magholoon (Anonymous) group ..., who committed terrorist acts within Giza province from August 2013 until October 2014, to the military public prosecutor," the statement said. |
| South Africa court bars indicted Sudan leader from leaving | |  By Ed Cropley and Joe Brock JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African judge barred Sudan's indicted president from leaving the country on Sunday, in a deepening rift between Africa and the West over what Pretoria called anti-poor country bias in the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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| 18 migrants found dead in Niger's desert, IOM says | | | The bodies of 18 west African migrants hoping to reach Europe have been found in the Sahara desert near Arlit in Niger, the International Organization for Migration said on Sunday. The discovery of the group offers a rare glimpse of what migration experts say is a hidden tragedy in the Sahara. "This case is indicative of the difficulties of these journeys, even before reaching the boats in Libya," Giuseppe Loprete, the head of IOM in Niger, said in emailed comments. |
| South African court extends order to stop Sudanese leader leaving | |  A South African court extended an order on Sunday preventing Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from leaving the country until it made a final decision on calls for his arrest on a warrant from the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Judge Hans Fabricuis postponed the hearing until 0930 GMT on Monday and urged the South African government to take "all necessary steps" to prevent Bashir, who is in Johannesburg for an African Union summit, leaving the country.
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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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| 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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