Amnesty International today called for the sentence of 100 lashes passed on a 16-year-old school girl in the Sudanese capital Khartoum for adultery to be commuted immediately.

Israel today expelled two Palestinians from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip - an unprecedented step hailed by the military as a powerful deterrent against suicide bombings and condemned by human rights groups as a violation of international law.

In a landmark decision, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled today that relatives of Palestinian terrorism suspects from the West Bank can be expelled to the Gaza Strip, but only if they are proven to pose a security threat.

An Israeli military court has backed the expulsion of three Palestinian relatives of suspected terrorists from the West Bank to Gaza.

A military court today approved the expulsion of three Palestinian relatives of suspected terrorists from the West Bank to Gaza, Israel TV reported.