A short look at what is happening in the world this morning.
Rove to testify over CIA leak
WASHINGTON - President George Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, plans to testify again before the grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's identity, his lawyer said yesterday.
"Karl's consistent position is that he will cooperate any time, any place," said Mr Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin. The lawyer indicated that Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had not made any decision yet on whether to file criminal charges against Mr Rove. - (Reuters)
US force-feeding at Guantanamo
LONDON - More than 200 prisoners remain on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay and the US military is force-feeding 21 of them, Amnesty International and a lawyer representing some of the detainees said yesterday.
The Americans are keeping the 21 alive by forcing food into their stomachs through tubes pushed up their noses. The prisoners are shackled to their beds 24 hours a day to stop them removing the tubes. - (Reuters)
Israeli court bans human shields
JERUSALEM - Israel's army must stop using Palestinian civilians as "human shields" in operations against suspected militants, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
Palestinian and Israeli human-rights groups had sought the ruling. The court's decision that the practice is illegal under international law hardened a temporary injunction issued in 2002. - (Reuters)
Warrants issued for cult leaders
UNITED NATIONS - The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for five leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army, a Uganda cult notorious for raping, maiming and killing children. The warrants are the first issued by the new court, set up to try individuals for war crimes and systematic human rights abuses. - (Reuters)
Fujimori plans comeback
TOKYO - Alberto Fujimori, Peru's disgraced former president, announced yesterday his intention to run for the presidency again in an election set for next April.
Fujimori fled Peru in 2000 at the height of a government corruption scandal. - (Reuters)
Guatemalan mudslides kill 40
GUATEMALA CITY - Forty people were killed in a mudslide in a town popular with tourists in Guatemala caused by rains from Hurricane Stan and hundreds more may be missing, rescue workers said yesterday. - (Reuters)