Ukrainian far-right leader Dmytro Yarosh says he will run for president and launches a scathing attack on the new government, two weeks after he helped bring it to power through street protests.

A ship seized by the Israeli navy on suspicion of smuggling arms from Iran to the Gaza Strip docks in Israel, which planned to put the cargo on display in hope of denting Tehran's rapprochement with the West.

Libya threatens to bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker at an oil terminal in the restive east if it does not leave, saying it was loading illegally.

A police patrol searching for wanted members of a pro-Hezbollah group comes under fire in the southern city of Sidon, security sources say.