THE Arab League got back behind international military strikes against Libya yesterday after comments by its leader had indicated divisions over the campaign against Muammar Gaddafi.

Libya announced another ceasefire tonight as the country braced itself for a second night’s bombardment by allied forces.

A car bomb killed three people and wounded five others in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighbourhood early today.

A leader of the Hamas Islamic group today said he believed Israel would give in to the demands of Palestinian militants who kidnapped an Israeli soldier.

At least 20 people are feared dead after a powerful bomb exploded outside a mosque in western Afghanistan today.