CAMP GOUROUKOUN, Chad (Reuters) — Mohammad Ibrahim, 18, waited patiently in the boiling sun to show United Nations Security Council ambassadors the welts burned into his back and head by Sudan’s marauding Janjaweed Arab militiamen.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) — More than 1,000 Islamist fighters deployed to a strategic camp north of Mogadishu on Sunday, witnesses said, sparking fears of a new offensive against warlords.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to seek a strong European stand against the Hamas-led Palestinian government and Iran’s nuclear programme as he begins his first visit to Britain and France on Sunday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Al Qaeda in Iraq vowed on Sunday to carry out attacks to “shake the enemy” after the killing of its leader Abu Mussab Zarqawi, heightening fears his death will bring no respite from carnage.

RAMALLAH — Israeli air strikes yesterday killed two members of the Izzedine Al Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, while a Palestinian rocket, claimed by the brigades, seriously wounded an Israeli in the town of Sderot on the border with Gaza.

CAIRO (AFP) — Iran’s top nuclear negotiator on Saturday urged all Muslim countries to follow in the Islamic republic’s footsteps and develop a nuclear energy programme.

BERLIN (Reuters) — Western powers on Friday gave Iran just weeks to respond to a package of incentives to suspend its nuclear enrichment programme. The offer, which EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana personally delivered to

BAGHDAD (AP) — The American military flew in two forensic specialists Saturday to examine the body of slain Al Qaeda chieftain Abu Mussab Zarqawi “to see how he actually died” in an effort to reconstruct the last minutes of his life, a US general said.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Sunni Arab insurgents on Saturday displayed the videotaped beheading of three men — alleged members of a Shiite death squad — signalling their determination to fight on despite the  death of Abu Mussab Zarqawi.

RAMALLAH — As thousands thronged the streets of Gaza for the funeral of seven people killed Friday in an Israeli shelling, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas upped the tensions between him and the Hamas-led Palestinian government by announcing a July 26 referendum on the so-called Prisoners’ Document.