resurgence
of anti-government protests.
Bahrain is to put five police officers on trial over allegations that they were involved in torturing to death two detainees linked to the mass anti-government protests earlier this year. Bahrain's top prosecutor said two of the policemen are accused of beating the men to death, and the others of failing to report what happened.
The governing AK party in Turkey has admitted that Turkish warplanes which attacked northern Iraq overnight, killing 35 people, probably hit the wrong targets. Turkey's pro-Kurdish party described the killings as a massacre of civilians. Janet Barrie reports.
A spokesman for the governing AK party said the raids were saddening, and he promised there'd be no
cover-up
of any mistakes. He said the victims were not Kurdish separatist guerrillas but smugglers bringing cigarettes into Turkey from Iraq. Local people say smugglers often use the remote mountain passes to cross the border, but so too do Kurdish rebels from the separatist group, the PKK. The Turkish authorities say they are now investigating possible failures in intelligence reports. Janet Barrie reporting
A Russian nuclear submarine has caught fire at a shipyard in the northern region of Murmansk while undergoing repairs. Officials said there had been no radiation leak. They said the craft's reactors had been
switched off
, no missiles were on board at the time and that no one was injured.