OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israel’s high court on Sunday narrowly upheld a law that denies Israeli residency to many Palestinians who marry Israelis, rejecting appeals against a statute critics condemned as a violation of human rights.

ABUJA (Reuters) — A rebel leader from Sudan’s Darfur region has rebuffed the latest proposals from African Union (AU) mediators for him to join a peace deal despite intense pressure by diplomats desperate to gain wider support for the accord.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Nuclear scientist Hussain Al Shahristani, a Shiite Islamist dissident once jailed by Saddam Hussein, seems increasingly likely to be Iraq’s next oil minister, leading negotiators said on Sunday.