Seif al-Islam, the son of Libya's slain strongman Moammar Gadhafi, has not been transferred to Tripoli because the ex-rebels holding him have not been paid, Libya's envoy to the International Criminal Court said on Monday.

"The failure of the National Transitional Council to fulfill its promise to pay the salaries of the thuwar (revolutionaries) of Zintan for six months' work, for an amount of not more than 1.7 million dinars ($1.36 million), led them to cancel Seif al-Islam's transfer to prison in Tripoli," Ahmed al-Jehani told Agence France Presse.

Israel expects foreign diplomatic pressure on Turkey to stop it trying four Israeli commanders over the killing of nine Turkish activists in a 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound ship.

"I imagine that diplomatic pressure will be put on Turkey to withdraw this action... foreign not Israeli," deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon, told state-run Channel One TV on Monday.

World inaction after the killing of more than 100 people, half of them children, in the Syrian town of Houla at the weekend will only encourage Damascus to commit more massacres, Tunisia said Monday.

"Tunisia firmly condemns this horrific carnage and reiterates its call on the international community to give Syria the attention it deserves," said a statement from President Moncef Marzouki's office.

Violence raged on Monday across Syria, where 25 people, most of them regime forces, were reportedly killed as clashes broke out in several restive provinces, monitors said.

The deadly violence came even as U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan arrived in Damascus to try and salvage a battered ceasefire, a day after monitors reported 90 people killed in Syria, more than a third in the city of Hama.

Opposition activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, facing a life sentence on charges of seeking to overthrow Bahrain's Sunni rulers, will on Monday end a hunger strike that lasted 110 days, his lawyer said.

The Shiite activist "will end his hunger strike this (Monday) evening," Mohammed al-Jishi said.

Egypt's top court is expected to rule on June 11 in a key case examining the constitutionality of a law barring Mubarak-era officials from running for office, the Al-Ahkbar newspaper reported on Monday.

Citing unnamed judicial sources, the newspaper said "the Supreme Constitutional Court will rule on the constitutional challenge to the political isolation law on June 11."

Italy is ready to support humanitarian corridors as part of any tougher U.N. resolution aimed at ending the bloodshed in Syria, its foreign minister said on Monday after a massacre triggered global outrage.

"We cannot stand by and watch dozens of children killed so brutally. We must do something," Giulio Terzi told La Stampa after 108 people, including many children were slaughtered in the central Syrian town of Houla.

Russia said on Monday it did not support the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad but urged world powers to work for the peace plan of U.N. envoy Kofi Annan and not regime change.

"We do not support the Syrian government. We support the plan of Kofi Annan," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a joint news conference with his British counterpart William Hague.

Egypt's ultra-conservative Salafist al-Nur Party has announced it will back the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi in a presidential election runoff against ex-premier Ahmed Shafiq.

"The High Committee of the al-Nur Party supports Dr. Mohammed Mursi for president of the republic in the runoff," the party said on its official Twitter account.

Kuwait's appeals court on Monday reduced a death sentence on two Iranians and a Kuwaiti to life in prison and upheld a life term on a stateless man on charges of spying for Iran, a judiciary source said.

The court however confirmed the acquittal of a man and a woman, both Iranians, while a Syrian who was sentenced to life by the lower court too was acquitted, the source said.