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| 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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| Islamist gunmen seize police station in Lebanon town near Syria | | | Islamist gunmen seized a police station in a town in Lebanon on the border with Syria and killed two Lebanese soldiers on Saturday after Lebanese security forces arrested one of their leaders, security sources and a rebel fighter said. Two Lebanese civilians were also killed trying to prevent fighters of the Nusra Front, al Qaeda's branch in Syria, from storming the security building, Lebanese state media reported. Arsal, a Sunni Muslim town where tens of thousands of refugees have fled fighting across the mountainous border, has frequently seen spillover from Syria's more than three-year-old civil war. |
| 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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| Experts work at Ukraine plane wreckage, lull in fighting | |  A lull in fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists allowed international experts on Saturday to resume their search for human remains at the wreckage of a Malaysian airliner downed in eastern Ukraine last month. About 70 experts worked at the site for a second successive day following an agreement on a local ceasefire by the Ukrainian army and the pro-Russian rebels, the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) said.
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