Lebanon: Fighting kills 3
BEIRUT — Three Lebanese soldiers were killed in fighting with Islamic extremists at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, a day after the families of the militants were evacuated, the military said Sunday.
The army said the soldiers were killed Saturday at the Nahr el-Bared camp. It did not say how they were killed.
The deaths raise to 145 the number of soldiers who have died since fighting between the army and Fatah Islam militants erupted three months ago.
Poland: Sex-for-work scandal
WARSAW — A Polish lawmaker was arrested Sunday on charges of rape and other sexual misconduct, his lawyer said.
A court ordered the arrest of Stanislaw Lyzwinski, a lawmaker from the Self-Defense Party, after prosecutors linked him to a sex-for-work scandal, his lawyer Wieslaw Zurawski said on TVN24 television. If convicted, he could face up to 10 years in prison.
Prosecutors have brought seven charges against Lyzwinski.
Somalia: 2 schoolboys killed
MOGADISHU — Bombings and grenade attacks killed two schoolboys and three other people in Somalia's capital on Sunday, officials said. Nine people were wounded.
Police blamed Islamist insurgents for the attacks.
The two teenagers died in a blast in south Mogadishu near a school attended by hundreds of children, the school's director Mohamed Ahmed Farah said. Sunday is a school day in the majority Muslim Horn of Africa nation, where government troops and their Ethiopian allies are fighting Islamic insurgents who vowed to conduct an Iraq-style insurgency after they were ousted by an Ethiopian-led invasion in December.