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The Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati says he's been persuaded to stay in office for the national interest, despite offering his resignation after the car bomb that killed the country's head of intelligence on Friday. Wyre Davies in Beirut has more.

Almost immediately after yesterday's bombing in Beirut that has caused for the resignation of Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati over his government inability to respond in any meaningful way to the attack, that's because a number of key ministers in the coalition government ally to Syria, the very country that's been widely blamed for the outrage. On the streets there have been violent anti-Syria demonstrations particularly in the northern city of Tripoli where at least one person was killed overnight. All eyes are now casting towards the funeral of general al-Hassan's which will take place tomorrow in central Beirut.

There are conflicting reports from Libya about the possible arrest of one of the most wanted man in the country, Colonel Gaddafi's former spokesman Moussa Ibrahim. Rana Jawad reports.

Several official sources have said to the BBC that Moussa Ibrahim, the ex-spokesman of the Gaddafi regime during the war has been captured. But other senior military sources in the country could not confirm the news and say they doubt the reports. According to the Prime Minister's office, Mr. Ibrahim was quoted he tried to flee the city of Bani Walid, it's a former stronghold of the late Colonel and has been under siege by forces from the neighbouring city of Misrata in recent weeks. Unlike previous arrests made a former regime figures, pictures have yet to emerge.

In the town of Bani Walid itself, the stronghold of former Gaddafi's supporters, there have been clashes between government forces and armed groups.

Suspected militants of the Islamist group Boko Haram have killed several people in the town of Potiskum in northeast Nigeria. It follows bombings and gun battles between the military and the Islamist militants. Here is Will Rose.

The violence in Potiskum town has reached an uNPRecedented level. After days of gun fire and bombings, there have been several targeted killings. The police confirmed that the suspected Boko Haram militants stormed the home of the retired head of customs, took him away with his son, and then shot them both by the road to the south of the town. The police would not confirm other reports from residents of Potiskum that a retired policeman was also killed along with two of his children.

News papers in Brazil accounting for some 90% of the market have stopped to allowing their material to be listed in the Google news web search engine. The Brazilian paper say Google news has refused to pay for using their headlines and was driving traffic away from their own websites. Google criticized their stance saying its platform provided a way to make journalist’s content available to more people.

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The French authority have evacuated hundreds of pilgrims visiting the Roman Catholic shrine in the southwestern town of Lourdes after a local river burst its banks. Water a meter deep has forced the closure of most of the shrine which attracts about six million visitors a year.

A court in Bangladesh has jailed 723 bodyguards for their role in a mutiny in 2009. The verdict was the final one of a series of mass trials conducted by the military. Jannat Jalil has more.

Nearly 6,000 soldiers have now been jailed for the mutiny, which took place when lower ranking soldiers from the Bangladeshi rifles in Dhaka rose up against their commanders. In the violence of followed, 57 senior officers were killed and the mutiny spread across the country. This verdict was the last in a series of trials conducted by the military, the campaign group Human Rights Watch has criticized the judicial process, saying a number of suspects died in custody while others were beaten and tortured.

The United States has sailed an aircraft carrier and its support ships through the South China Sea in a show support of Vietnam which is engaged in territorial disputes with China in the region. The Vietnamese officials were invited aboard for a tour of the USS George Washington as a cruise of the coast. The ship's captain told the Associated Press that the mission was aimed to improving relations with Vietnam.

Ceremonies have been held in northern Egypt to mark the 70th anniversary of the battle of El-Alamein, a turning point in the Second World War. Veterans, most now in their 90s, from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and other wartime allies, gathered in the Commonwealth war cemetery on the edge of what's the desert battlefield. The second battle El-Alamein represented the first big ally to land victory after three years of German dominance. Winston Churchill described the task not the beginning of the end but the end of the beginning.

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