The jailed leader of a Moroccan protest movement, Nasser Zefzafi, has sewn his lips together after losing an appeal against a 20-year prison term, several sources said Tuesday.

The U.N. Security Council will hold urgent closed-door consultations on Wednesday on the crisis in Libya, where fighting has scuttled U.N.-led efforts to prepare for elections.

The U.N. said Tuesday it had evacuated more than 150 refugees from a Tripoli detention center affected by recent clashes, and said refugees elsewhere might also need to be moved.

Award-winning rights activist Ahmed Mansoor, jailed in the UAE for "publishing false information", has launched a hunger strike in protest against prison conditions, Amnesty International said Tuesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced election day criticism Tuesday after activists from his right-wing Likud party brought cameras into polling stations in Arab-majority neighborhoods.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main challenger, Benny Gantz, stopped his car on polling day on Tuesday to help an injured motorcyclist on a highway, local media reported.

The United Nations on Tuesday postponed a Libyan national conference aimed at drawing up an election roadmap because of fighting raging near the capital, in another setback to peace efforts.

Multiple U.S. presidential candidates have criticized Israel's prime minister ahead of Tuesday's general election in Israel, with Beto O'Rourke branding Benjamin Netanyahu "racist" and Bernie Sanders calling him too extreme.

A double bomb attack Tuesday in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, a former bastion of the Islamic State group, killed 13 people, mostly civilians, a war monitor said.

A car bomb and explosive ordinance struck a crowded street, killing nine civilians and four U.S.-backed fighters, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he hoped that Israel's parliamentary elections on Tuesday could help bring peace.