The trial of Libya's former spy chief Bouzid Dorda was adjourned indefinitely on Tuesday as defense lawyers challenged the legality of proceedings in the first case against a top Kadhafi official.

It was the fifth time since June 5 that the trial had been suspended at the request of defense lawyers.

France has helped a number of Syrian military figures to desert from President Bashar Assad's embattled regime, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Tuesday.

"We have contributed to a certain number of desertion operations," he told a parliamentary commission, without giving any further details.

Clashes resumed between the Syrian army and rebels in the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday as several districts of the commercial hub came under shelling, a witness and a watchdog reported.

After an eerily quiet morning, a resident reported renewed regime bombardments of the Kalasseh and Bustan al-Qasr districts in the south, Suleiman al-Halabi in the center and Bustan al-Basha in the north.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that the new U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi will meet Syrian President Bashar Assad when he travels to the conflict-ravaged country.

"Special representative Brahimi is soon going to have a meeting with Syrian authorities including president Assad, and he has already been engaged with the key stakeholders," Ban told a news conference in Bern, without providing more details about the highly anticipated visit.

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi travels on Thursday to Brussels for talks with European Union leaders on his first trip to Europe since his election, the EU said in a statement.

Morsi, who in June was elected Egypt's first Islamist leader following an uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak early last year, is due to meet EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso.

Egyptian authorities ordered the arrest of ousted strongman Hosni Mubarak's last Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq on Tuesday on suspicion of corruption, judicial sources said.

Shafiq, who has been living abroad in the United Arab Emirates since narrowly losing the first post-Mubarak elections to Islamist incumbent Mohamed Morsi in June, has been barred from travel using his Egyptian passport since last month.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Tuesday announced cuts to fuel prices and VAT after more than a week of protests across the West Bank over the spiraling cost of living.

The price of fuel "will be returned to what it was in late August, starting tomorrow," Fayyad told reporters after the weekly cabinet meeting.

The international community cannot ask Israel to keep waiting before acting against Iran if it has not laid down red lines to Tehran over its nuclear program, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.

"The world tells Israel: Wait, there's still time. And I say: wait for what? Wait until when?," Netanyahu said.

Yemen's Defense Minister Mohammed Nasser Ahmed survived a car bomb attack on Tuesday that hit his convoy near the government headquarters, but 10 people were killed, including seven guards, a security official said.

The attack came a day after defense ministry news website 26sep.net said that second in command of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) Saeed al-Shehri was killed in an army operation in the country's east.

Amnesty International on Tuesday called on Iraq to investigate a bloody wave of attacks, while condemning a death sentence handed to fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi.

More than 80 people were killed and at least 400 wounded in the series of over 30 attacks across Iraq on Saturday and Sunday, according to security and medical officials.