Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak was on Saturday questioned over gifts worth millions of Egyptian pounds allegedly received from the country's flagship state newspaper, a judicial source said.

Mubarak, who is already serving a life sentence for his involvement in the death of protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled him, was ordered detained for 15 days pending the investigation, the source told AFP.

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian on Saturday evening as he tried to sneak from the occupied West Bank into the Jewish State for work, Palestinian officials told AFP.

A medical official said that that he was contacted by Israeli authorities and asked to arrange for the collection of the man's body from Soroka hospital, in the southern Israel, after he was shot trying to cross Israel's West Bank separation barrier.

Clashes broke out again on Saturday between residents and police in Ben Guerdane near Tunisia's border with Libya after nearly a week of demonstrations over poor living conditions.

Ben Guerdane, around 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the border, has witnessed sporadic unrest since Sunday, fuelled by Tripoli's decision to close the Ras Jdir border crossing in early September for security reasons.

The prime ministers of Libya, Algeria and Tunisia decided on Saturday to reinforce border security and join forces tackling regional challenges including terrorism, arms trafficking and organized crime.

The decision was taken by Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal and Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali during a meeting in the southern Libyan oasis of Ghadames.

Amnesty International expressed concern on Saturday over Tunisia's draft constitution, saying the text contains ambiguous provisions that fail to uphold international human rights standards.

The rights watchdog made the comments on the eve of a meeting of the National Constituent Assembly and ahead of the second anniversary on Monday of the overthrow of Tunisian strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

Thousands of Shiites demonstrated near Manama on Saturday in a new protest against an appeals court upholding jail terms for 13 activists on charges of plotting to overthrow Bahrain's monarchy, witnesses said.

"We will not resign ourselves to it" and "we will not forget the prisoners," shouted demonstrators during the peaceful protest that was monitored by a heavy security presence. Some carried photos of those convicted.

Switzerland will on Monday file a petition signed by 52 countries calling for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open a case on war crimes in Syria, its foreign minister said.

"Serious war crimes are being committed in Syria. We must make sure they not go unpunished," Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter told Swiss national television TSR on Friday.

Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in central Baghdad backing Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Saturday as the latest in weeks of anti-government rallies in Sunni areas of Iraq called for him to quit.

The demonstrations have worsened a political crisis, pitting Maliki against his erstwhile government partners, with the premier facing accusations of authoritarianism and sectarianism ahead of key provincial polls.

A fire in a three-storey block housing Asian workers in the Bahraini capital killed at least 13 people, the state BNA news agency reported late on Friday.

One firefighter was also injured when the building's roof collapsed during a rescue attempt, the news agency added.

More than 200 Palestinian activists were on Saturday evening refusing to leave a protest camp they set up in part of the occupied West Bank where Israel wants to build new settler homes, despite a threat to evict them.

"Members of the Israeli Civil (military) Administration told us this morning that we have one hour to evacuate the site," one of the organizers, Abir Copty, told AFP.