Some 400 detainees escaped after a riot on Sunday at a prison in the southern suburbs of the Libyan capital Tripoli, theatre of a week of deadly battles, the police said.
"The detainees were able to force open the doors and leave" as fighting between rival militias raged near the prison of Ain Zara, the police said in a statement, without specifying what crimes the escapees had committed.

Hundreds escape prison near Libya's Tripoli: police

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Norwegian police on Sunday said they were investigating the disappearance of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's associate Arjen Kamphuis, a cyber security expert, who was last seen in northern Norway.
"We have started an investigation," police spokesman Tommy Bech told AFP, adding that so far they had no clue about the Dutch citizen's whereabouts.  The police "would not speculate about what may have happened to him," Bech said.
WikiLeaks tweeted on Saturday about Kamphuis's "strange disappearance", saying he had been missing since August 20 when he left his hotel in the northern Norwegian town of Bodo.
It added that Kamphuis had a ticket for a flight departing on August 22 from Trondheim, a city located more than 700 kilometres (435 miles) south of Bodo.
"The train between the two takes (approximately) 10 hours," suggesting he disappeared either in Bodo, Trondheim or on the train, WikiLeaks said, triggering numerous conspiracy theories on Twitter.
Assange has been holed up at ...

Norway police probe disappearance of WikiLeaks associate

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged his opposition Labour party Sunday to adopt the internationally agreed definition of anti-Semitism in order to resolve a bitter row that has engulfed the party for months.
The issue has opened up deep and bitter divisions within Britain's main opposition party.
And its current leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has come under prolonged attack for refusing to adopt fully the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism in Labour's new code of conduct.  He has also been accused of allowing anti-Semitism to spread in the left-wing party.
The Labour leadership has argued that the definition, signed by 31 countries and used by many British institutions, does not allow for full criticism of Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
Ahead of a meeting of its ruling executive committee on Tuesday, Brown -- who was prime minister between June 2007 and May 2010 -- said the issue touched on "the soul of the Labour Party".
"This is 

Former UK leader Brown urges Labour to act on anti-Semitism

At least 12 people were killed, including two Ukrainians, when a helicopter crashed in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, Afghan and foreign officials said.
The aircraft, owned by a Moldovan company, was carrying 14 people including 11 members of Afghan security forces when it crashed in the northern province of Balkh, the Moldovan aviation authority said in a statement.
The two Ukrainians killed were crew members, the statement said. A third Ukrainian crew member survived the crash.  An Afghan security source confirmed the death toll. Another Afghan security source put the death toll at 13, with only the foreign pilot surviving the accident.
The helicopter was carrying munitions and exploded on impact, burning bodies "beyond recognition", the Afghan sources said.  Afghan officials earlier put the death toll at three.
The helicopter crashed due to "technical problems" shortly after taking off in Dehdadi district, Nazer Khuda Pamiri, deputy commander of Afghan forces in northern ...

Helicopter crash in Afghanistan kills 12

A 19-year-old Afghan man who was shot and wounded by Dutch police after allegedly attacking bystanders at Amsterdam's Central Station will briefly appear in court on Monday, police said.
The suspect, identified by authorities as "Jawed S", "will appear before a judge and until then no further details will be released," the Amsterdam police said in a statement on Sunday.
Two American citizens -- both believed to be male -- were seriously injured when a knife-wielding man attacked bystanders around noon on Friday at the busy station next to the Dutch capital's historic city centre.  Police quickly reacted and shot the man in the lower body. He and the two injured bystanders were taken to hospital.
The US State Department on Sunday condemned what it called an "unprovoked, horrifying attack" and  offered full support to Dutch authorities both in their investigation and "in our common fight against terrorism in all forms".
Both of the wounded Americans were in a satisfactory condition, ...

Afghan teen to appear in court for Amsterdam station attack

Doctors and scientists increasingly suspect attacks with unconventional microwave weapons as the cause of the mysterious ailments that have stricken more than three dozen American diplomats and their families in Cuba and China, The New York Times reported Sunday.
The victims reported hearing intense high-pitched sounds in their hotel rooms or homes followed by symptoms that included nausea, severe headaches, fatigue, dizziness, sleep problems and hearing loss.
A medical team that examined 21 of those affected in Cuba did not mention microwave weapons as a cause in a study published in March in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
But its lead author, Douglas Smith, the director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at the University of Pennsylvania, told the Times that microwave weapons are now considered a main suspect and that the team is increasingly sure the diplomats suffered brain injury.
"Everybody was relatively skeptical at first," he was quoted as saying, ...

Microwave weapon suspected in mystery attacks on US diplomats: report

US justice officials secretly sought cooperation from a few of Russia's richest men as they investigated Russian organized crime and possible aid from Moscow to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, a media report said.
Nearly all the half-dozen Russian oligarchs approached between 2014 and 2016 by the US Justice Department and FBI have close links to President Vladimir Putin, The New York Times has reported. None of them apparently cooperated.
At one point, FBI agents reportedly appeared unannounced at a home that billionaire Oleg Deripaska maintains in New York to press him on whether Paul Manafort, a onetime business partner of the Russian and briefly chairman of the Trump campaign, had served as a liaison between the campaign and the Kremlin.
A jury in Virginia last month convicted Manafort of several counts of tax and bank fraud.
Two key players in the US investigative effort, according to the Times, were Christopher Steele, the former British spy who assembled a ...

Report: US investigators sought to cultivate Russian oligarchs

The Royal Bank of Scotland warned Sunday that it is planning "for the worst" amid increased talk of no deal over Brexit.
Chief executive Ross McEwan said RBS is setting up a new European subsidiary in Amsterdam to serve customers on the continent, but is awaiting for approval of its licences.
With Britain and the European Union yet to agree on what their future relationship should look like, McEwan told the BBC that RBS may lose business without a deal.
"If we don't get the right licences, and we don't get them in time, that could create major problems for our customers and for the bank," McEwan said.
"We are planning, unfortunately, for the worst." McEwan said RBS had already deployed 150 staff to Amsterdam, and if regulators failed to approve trading licences for the operations, it would stop offering services to some of its European customers.
"In the next couple of months, we're going to have to make some decisions... we're going to have to think about which European customers we .

RBS says 'planning for worst' in Brexit

Eighteen people were injured in rival demonstrations capping off a week marked by xenophobic protests in the eastern city of Chemnitz, prompting Germany's foreign minister to urge Germans to "get off our sofas" and speak up against racism.
Chemnitz has been in the spotlight after violent far-right protests erupted over the fatal stabbing of a 35-year-old man, allegedly by a Syrian and an Iraqi last Sunday.
On Saturday, 8,000 people answered a joint call by far-right party AfD and Islamophobic PEGIDA street movement to descend once again on the streets of the former communist city which was in the erstwhile East Germany.
The mobilisation vastly outnumbered a contingent of 3,000 counter protesters, including Green party and Social Democratic Party MPs, who had also converged to take a stand against racism.
Local police, backed up by officers from across Germany, were out in force to keep both sides from clashing.
But as the rallies cleared, scuffles took place among small groups.
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18 injured in German rival protests over migrants

US officials working on a Middle East peace plan have asked Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas about forming a confederation with Jordan, Abbas told activists Sunday, according to one of them.
Abbas recounted the conversation he had with White House aides Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt during a meeting with Israeli peace activists in Ramallah, said Hagit Ofran of the Peace Now NGO, who attended.
According to Ofran, Abbas said he told the US officials he would only be interested if Israel was also part of such a confederation.
It was not clear when the conversation took place, though Abbas has declined to meet with the White House since US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital in December.
Abbas's office confirmed Sunday's meeting with the peace activists, but not the comments on the confederation.
Israeli media also reported Abbas's comments on the confederation proposal. Ofran said Abbas did not go into further detail.
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US team asked Abbas about Jordan-Palestinian confederation: NGO

Yemen's warring parties will not meet directly at UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva this week, likely to focus on a prisoner exchange deal and the fate of a key port, government officials said Sunday.
The United Nations has invited Yemen's government and the Iran-backed Huthi rebels to Geneva for talks which open Thursday.
Both parties have confirmed they are sending high-level delegations to the talks, but officials say expectations of a breakthrough are low.
UN envoy Martin Griffiths has said the talks are aimed at charting a path forward to revive UN-backed negotiations which broke down in 2016.  The Yemeni government says the meetings will likely focus on a prisoner exchange deal and the fate of embattled Hodeida, the rebel-held port city that is now the frontline of the Yemen war.
Yemen's Foreign Minister Khaled al-Yamani told AFP the meetings "will not be face-to-face and depend on how well the UN envoy manages the two sides".
"The consultations will be indirect, unless there is 

No face-to-face meetings set for Yemen peace talks

Triple Winter Olympic champion Shaun White is considering competing in skateboarding at the Tokyo Games in 2020, he told AFP while taking part in a professional event in Marseille on Sunday.
The 31-year-old American snowboard superstar has been skating since his early childhood and won his first snowboard halfpipe gold at the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics.
"Honestly, I am here to see how things go. I haven't made a decision either way, I just figured, want to have some fun, skateboard, come to France and then hopefully make a decision come new year if I'm really going to go for it or not," he said of the news he was targeting the 2020 Summer Games.
"The Winter Olympics for me just happened so, to finish climbing the mountain and to have a success like that and to have another mountain to climb with skateboarding, it's a lot.
"Physically, mentally and all these things so, I think for me to have fun right now and get excited about it, and then set the goal of going to the Olympics is how .

Shaun White mulls skateboard bid for Tokyo 2020

Unai Emery collected his second victory as Arsenal manager thanks to a fine strike from Alexandre Lacazette in a 3-2 success at Cardiff on Sunday.
Emery's men had threatened to surrender two more Premier League points as they twice squandered the lead, with Neil Warnock's Cardiff exploiting old failings for the Gunners.
But, despite making hard work of seeing off the promoted Welsh side, Arsenal sealed maximum points with Lacazette's late strike to record only their second away Premier League win since December.
Shkodran Mustafi headed Arsenal ahead before Victor Camarasa equalised in first-half stoppage-time as Emery received another intensive lesson in the strengths and weaknesses in his squad.
There was more of the same in the second half as brilliance from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang restored the lead before another defensive aberration allowed Cardiff to draw level for a second time through Danny Ward.
At times it appeared the new Arsenal manager would witness old issues undermine .

Lacazette lifts Emery as Arsenal subdue gritty Cardiff

Championship leader Lewis Hamilton delivered one of his greatest races Sunday when he wrecked Ferrari's homecoming party as he stormed to a record-equalling fifth Monza victory in his Mercedes at the Italian Grand Prix.
The defending world champion produced a perfectly-judged race of raw aggression and astute tyre-management to finish 8.7 seconds ahead of Kimi Raikkonen, who on Saturday had claimed pole position for Ferrari with the fastest lap in Formula One history.
His 68th career victory and sixth this year enlarged his championship lead from 17 points to 30 ahead of Sebastian Vettel, who finished fourth in the second Ferrari after spinning on the opening lap after a clash with the Briton as he passed him at the second chicane.
Hamilton's Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas came home third ahead of Vettel with Max Verstappen taking fifth place in the classified result, after finishing third on the road, following a time penalty.
Hamilton's fifth Italian win drew him level with ...

Hamilton triumphs in Italy as Ferrari flounder

A bomb ripped through an internet cafe in the southern Philippines on Sunday, killing one person and wounding 15 in the second deadly blast to strike the same city in days, authorities said.
The explosion in Isulan was a short distance from where an improvised bomb under a motorcycle blew up on August 28, killing three and wounding dozens.
These attacks are the latest violence in the south of the majority Catholic archipelago, where Islamist militants have been fighting a decades-long insurgency.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Sunday's bombing, but authorities' suspicion immediately fell on the Islamic State-linked Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).
"It is the BIFF who is responsible," Army General Cirilito Sobejana told AFP. "This group is out to sow chaos." The mayor's office of Isulan and the military said one person was killed in the bombing and 15 were wounded, four of whom were in critical condition.
The recent blasts follow President Rodrigo ...

Philippines bombing kills one, wounds over a dozen

General Scott Miller took command of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan on Sunday, as worsening violence erodes hopes for peace in the war-torn country.
Miller, who has commanded special operations units in Afghanistan since 2013, succeeds General John Nicholson, who is rotating out of the post after more than two years.
The handover comes at a sensitive time in the 17-year war that has seen little progress by Afghan or US forces against the Taliban, Afghanistan's largest militant group.
Afghan and international players have been ratcheting up efforts to hold peace talks with the Taliban, which was toppled from power by US-led forces in 2001.
An unprecedented ceasefire in June followed by talks between US officials and Taliban representatives in Qatar in July fuelled hopes that negotiations could bring an end to the fighting.
But a recent spate of attacks by Taliban and the smaller but potent Islamic State group that left hundreds of security forces and civilians dead has almost ...

US commando takes helm of forces in Afghanistan

Israeli prosecutors have launched an offensive to end lap dancing in strip clubs, while lawmakers from across the political spectrum are backing a bill to outlaw striptease across the board.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Sunday that law enforcement had received a statement from the state attorney's office saying lap dancing can be considered a form of prostitution and therefore an offence.
Officers are now awaiting instructions on how to enforce the rule, he told AFP.
"The phenomenon known as 'lap dance' constitutes in certain circumstances an 'act of prostitution'," says the policy ruling, a copy of which was seen by AFP.
"The continuation of this activity will constitute an offence and cause for taking all the measures in the law," including against business owners, it added.
The police have informed strip club on the change in policy and warned that they would act to enforce it, the ruling said.  Rosenfeld confirmed that "some letters have been sent out" to club ...

Lap dancing goes from risque to risky in Israel

Eden Hazard admits he is enjoying playing for new Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri, but the Belgium star remains coy over his future plans.
Hazard scored his second goal of the season in Saturday's 2-0 win over Bournemouth as Chelsea made four successive Premier League victories with Sarri in charge.
The 27-year-old was repeatedly linked with Real Madrid in the close-season and hinted he was keen to leave Stamford Bridge.
But Chelsea refused to sell the forward and Hazard, now in his seventh season at Stamford Bridge, is enjoying Sarri's style of play after the more conservative tactics of former Blues bosses.
"I like to have the ball. Not in my own half, but in the last 30 metres," Hazard told Chelsea TV.
"I like this type of game. It's completely different than Antonio Conte or (Jose) Mourinho before.
"We have more ball so for me it's not bad." Hazard's contract expires in 2020 and the offer of an extension has not been taken up so far by the Belgian.
Hazard was a substitute in Chelsea's 

Hazard impressed by Sarri but coy over future

Olympics chief Thomas Bach is to open talks with North and South Korea about marching and competing together at the 2020 Tokyo Games, he said on Sunday.
Bach was speaking at the Asian Games, where the two Koreas paraded together at the opening ceremony and joined forces in competition for the second time this year, after the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee chief said such gestures were becoming "natural and normal", adding that the Koreas may even form a joint relay team in Tokyo, without elaborating.
"We will speak with South Korea and North Korea (about) what can be done together on the occasion of the Games," he said in Jakarta.
"A joint march... maybe a joint team... a joint relay or whatever," said Bach, adding that he expected to begin discussions in October or November.  At the Asian Games, the two Koreas formed joint teams in rowing, canoeing and women's basketball, winning one gold, one silver and two bronze medals.

Olympics boss hopes Koreas will march together at Tokyo

Nothing is going right for Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo since his summer move to Italian champions Juventus.
The five-time Ballon d'Or winner, who lost out to Luka Modric for the UEFA Player of the Year award during the week, drew another blank for a third straight Serie A game on Saturday as he chases his first goal for his new club.
Liberated by his departure his former Real Madrid teammates have gone on a goal spree and now he has even been outshone by his son, Cristiano Ronaldo Jr, who scored four goals in his debut for Juventus's Under-9 team.
Wearing the number 7 of his famous dad, eight-year-old Ronaldo Jr scored a brace in either half in a 5-1 win against Lucento, watched by Ronaldo's partner Georgina, according to media reports in Italy on Sunday.
Ronaldo has failed to score in his first three competitive games for Juventus, including Saturday's 2-1 win at Parma with Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa in the stands.
Real Madrid are not suffering following the ..

Ronaldo Jr outshines dad with four goals on Juve debut

More than 38,000 pigs have been culled across China, state media said Sunday, as the world's largest pork producer scrambles to contain an outbreak of African swine fever.
The disease has been discovered in five Chinese provinces, the official Xinhua news service reported, quoting statistics from the country's ministry of agriculture.
China reported its first case of the disease in August in northeast Liaoning province.
Since then the disease has moved south, with cases discovered as far as 1,000 kilometres away, raising concerns it could infect pig farms across the country.
Although the virus has continued to spread, a spokesman for the agriculture ministry said it is "generally under control," Xinhua reported.
Last week, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization warned the disease could spread to other parts of Asia.
African swine fever is not harmful to humans but causes haemorrhagic fever in domesticated pigs and wild boar that almost always ends in death within a few days.
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