Fears of new violence hung over Muslims at Friday prayers in the Nigerian city of Kano after Islamists who killed at least 185 people there a week ago threatened to strike again.

A suicide bomber set off an explosives-packed car outside a Baghdad hospital on Friday, killing 31 people in the capital's deadliest day in a month.

STL Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare met Friday with Interior Minister Marwan Charbel and other security officials on the final day of a farewell visit to Lebanon.

The leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, has effectively abandoned his headquarters in Damascus.