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| UN says Sri Lanka illegally returning Pakistani asylum seekers | | | GENEVA/COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka must stop deporting Pakistani asylum seekers, a practice banned under international law, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Saturday. Sri Lanka began arresting asylum seekers and refugees on June 9 and has since detained 214 Pakistanis and Afghans in two asylum centres, UNHCR said. The Sri Lankan government also blamed people trafficking networks for the recent rise in asylum seekers reaching its shores. In the past two days, Sri Lanka had deported 18 people, with another 10 deportations expected on Sunday, UNHCR said in a statement, adding that the repatriations breached a "no forced return" principle. |
| French police arrest Islamist militant at a Paris airport | | | French police on Friday arrested a Franco-Moroccan man they described as an Islamist militant at Roissy international airport on suspicion that he was part of a conspiracy to carry out attacks in France. The man, whose name and age were not made public, had just disembarked from a plane arriving from Istanbul after his expulsion by Turkish authorities, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The statement did not say where the man had travelled before reaching Turkey, which is a common waystation for European Islamist militants en route to Syria. France, which estimates that 800 of its citizens have left to join Islamist groups in Syria, said this month it would ban individuals linked to radical Islamist groups from leaving the country to prevent such attacks. |
| Shelling in Ukraine hinders work at plane crash site | |  DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Shelling near the wreckage of the Malaysian airliner downed in east Ukraine forced international experts to stop working on Saturday at one part of the crash site, the OSCE rights and security group said. Alexander Hug, deputy head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's monitoring mission in Ukraine, said the experts worked without problem at the main part of the site. But despite a local ceasefire agreed by government forces and pro-Russian separatists, shelling was heard about two km (1.2 miles) from a second area where wreckage came down. ...
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| Gunmen seize police station, kill two soldiers in Lebanon border town | | | By Alexander Dziadosz BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamist gunmen seized a police station in a Lebanese border town and killed two soldiers on Saturday, drawing a warning of a "decisive" response from Lebanon's army to the most serious spillover from the Syrian civil war in months. Two Lebanese civilians were also killed when they tried to prevent fighters from the Nusra Front, al Qaeda's branch in Syria, from storming the security building in the town of Arsal, security sources and state media said. In other violence on Saturday, just across the border in Syria's Qalamoun region, the forces of President Bashar al-Assad killed at least 50 rebels, including from the Nusra Front. |
| Court in Georgia orders arrest of ex-president Saakashvili | |  By Margarita Antidze TBILISI (Reuters) - A court in Georgia issued an arrest warrant for former president Mikheil Saakashvili on Saturday in relation to abuse of power charges that his supporters say are politically motivated and which have prompted expressions of concern from Western leaders. The Tblisi City Court issued the order for Saakashvili, former defence minister David Kezerashvili and former prosecutor general Zurab Adeishvili on similar charges. Saakashvili, who has been living abroad since his presidency ended in November, is facing charges of abuse of power, and using excessive force against protesters in Tbilisi in November 2007 and a raid on a television station. Dozens of former officials have been arrested on charges such as abuse of power and corruption since Saakashvili's party lost an election to the Georgian Dream coalition two years ago.
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| Israel says has evidence 47% of Gaza dead were combatants | |  Israel has evidence that almost half of Palestinians killed in the 25-day-old Gaza war were combatants, its deputy foreign minister said on Saturday, pushing back against international allegations of a lopsidedly heavy civilian death toll. The U.N. Human Rights Council last week accused the Israelis of "disproportionate and indiscriminate attacks" and launched an inquiry into possible war crimes. Israel, which has lost 63 soldiers and 3 civilians to the fighting, says it has done everything possible to avoid harming innocents and that Gaza's dominant Hamas Islamists invite such casualties by operating in densely populated areas. "There is research being done in the military, very professionally and reliably, (whose) conclusion is that at least 47% of the fatalities are terrorists, with photographs and names," Tzachi Hanegbi told Israel's Channel Two television, adding that the data would be presented to investigators.
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| Ukrainian forces advance in east as Russia, West squabble | |  By Timothy Heritage and Maria Tsvetkova KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Government forces tightened the noose around the main stronghold of pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine on Saturday and, with diplomacy stalled, Moscow and the West stepped up their war of words. The other is Luhansk, near the border with Russia. The separatists shot down a drone in the latest violence but both sides observed a truce around the fields in rebel-held territory where a Malaysian airliner was downed last month, enabling international experts to resume the search for victims. Diplomatic efforts to end the wider conflict, the worst standoff between Moscow and the West since the Cold War ended in 1991, show no sign of progress.
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