BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi spoke on the phone with British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab on Sunday to discuss the latest tensions in the region and the consequences of a military confrontation, Abdul Mahdi's office said.

Tripoli (Reuters) - At least 30 people were killed and 33 others wounded in an attack on a military academy in the Libyan capital late on Saturday, the health ministry of the Tripoli-based government said in a statement on Sunday.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab on Sunday attacked a military base in Lamu county in Kenya that is used by both U.S. and Kenyan forces, a source and al Shabaab said.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya said on Saturday it had started aerial spraying in three counties in the country's north to try to head off a locust invasion which has already caused extensive damage to farmland in neighbouring Somalia and Ethiopia.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab on Sunday attacked a military base in Lamu county in Kenya that is used by both U.S. and Kenyan forces, a source and al Shabaab said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The son of Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric was there to welcome the funeral procession for Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf, state TV said on Saturday.

DAKAR (Reuters) - Fourteen people were killed and 19 wounded when a bus carrying students ran over an improvised explosive device on Saturday in northern Burkina Faso, the government said.