Egyptian prosecutors asked parliament on Saturday for permission to investigate an Islamist MP police say was caught performing an "indecent" act with a woman in public, official media reported.

The official MENA news agency quoted a police report saying that Ali Wanis, a cleric and MP for the ultra-conservative al-Nur party, was found engaged in an "indecent" act with a 22-year-old woman in a car parked on a highway on Thursday.

About 2,000 Israeli Arabs protested on Saturday to demand that Syrian President Bashar Assad step down and to show solidarity with Syrian civilians killed by regime forces, an Agence France Presse journalist said.

Marchers in the protest, organized by the Islamic Movement, carried pictures of children killed in the violence in Syria, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that than 13,500 people have died since the uprising broke out almost 16 months ago.

Elections in Libya for a constituent assembly, originally set to be held by June 19, are to be postponed for logistical reasons, electoral commission members said on Saturday.

Egypt's state television has spiked an ad urging citizens to be wary of foreigners who could be spies in disguise, after critics accused the state broadcaster of stoking "xenophobia," an official said Saturday.

"The ad was removed on Friday night because we were concerned that it was being misunderstood," Ali Abderrahman, president of public channels Nile Drama and Nile cinema, told Agence France Presse.

Bahraini police wounded several people on Saturday morning when they fired sound bombs, tear gas and bird shot to disperse dozens who protested across several Shiite areas, witnesses said.

"Down Hamad," chanted dozens of supporters of the youth group of the "Revolution of February 14," referring to Bahrain's Sunni monarch. "The people want to overthrow the regime."

Russia will not approve the use of force against the Syrian regime at the United Nations, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday at a briefing in Moscow.

"We will not sanction the use of force at the United Nations Security Council," Lavrov said in televised remarks as he gave a briefing on Russia's proposal for an international conference on Syria.

Russia on Saturday pushed its proposal for an international conference on Syria to include Iran, despite skepticism from the United States.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was to give details on the plan for regional players to try to negotiate a strategy that would suit all Syrians at a briefing in Moscow at 1200 GMT.

Four members of the International Criminal Court were arrested and are being held in Libya, the tribunal said, calling on the authorities there to free them.

The ICC team had been held since Thursday, having travelled to Libya to meet Seif al-Islam, the detained son of slain leader Moammar Gadhafi, the statement said.

Leaders of the exiled Syrian National Council met in Turkey on Saturday to pick a new leader after the resignation of Burhan Ghalioun last month to avert divisions in the opposition bloc.

The vote came as Western powers moved to slap sanctions on Damascus amid mounting anger over a massacre in a central village blamed on regime troops and fears of a full-fledged civil war in Syria.

New fighting broke out in southern Libya on Saturday between members of the Toubou minority and government forces, the two sides said, with unconfirmed reports that at least five people were killed.

Tribal chief Issa Abdelmajid said the Toubou quarter of the town of Kufra came under shelling at 3:00 am (0100 GMT) by the Libya Shield Brigade, former rebels under government control sent to quell previous ethnic fighting.