The first pictures to emerge of Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika since he was hospitalized in France in April after a mini-stroke were published by the national APS news agency on Wednesday.

Wearing a dressing gown, he was pictured on Tuesday receiving Algeria's Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal and army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah in the Paris hospital where he is convalescing.

Iran is bankrupt and the regime is mulling drastic measures to keep the economy afloat, an official from an opposition movement said Wednesday, citing what he claimed were leaked documents.

"I have decided to publish these documents because they touch the lives of all Iranians, bear witness to the catastrophic situation in the country as well as the post-election plot prepared by the regime," Amir Hossein Jahanshahi, the founder of the Green Wave opposition group, told reporters in Paris.

Jordan's parliament has approved an agreement with Britain on the extradition of suspects wanted by Amman, including radical cleric Abu Qatada, an MP said Wednesday.

"Parliament on Tuesday approved a treaty with Britain to help Jordan extradite suspects from Britain," Khalil Attieh, the deputy house speaker, told Agence France Presse. "The agreement does not specifically mention Abu Qatada but it includes him and others."

Three women staged a topless protest Wednesday outside the Tunisian embassy in Madrid calling on Tunis to free three fellow activists detained for a bare-breasted anti-Islamist demonstration in the north African nation.

The members of radical feminist group Femen removed their shirts to show their breasts and messages daubed on their bodies calling for the release of the trio who are behind bars in Tunis.

Iran's six presidential hopefuls took part in last-ditch election campaigning Wednesday, hoping to woo the millions of Iranians still undecided between a slew of conservatives and a moderate cleric backed by reformists.

Momentum has built for cleric Hassan Rowhani, a former top nuclear negotiator, after the withdrawal of reformist Mohammad Reza Aref on Tuesday, and the endorsement of two ex-presidents, pro-reform Mohammad Khatami and pragmatist Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

A Libyan court on Wednesday adjourned until August the murder and corruption trial of Moammar Gadhafi's last premier, who allegedly spent billions of dollars trying to buy support during the uprising that ousted the dictator.

Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, dressed in prison blues, appeared in the Tripoli court accused of "gratuitously killing people" and of "misappropriating public funds" during the 2011 revolt.

Three European activists with radical women's protest group Femen were handed four-month jail sentences by a Tunisian court on Wednesday for staging a topless anti-Islamist demonstration last month, one of their lawyers said.

"The judge condemned the three Femen activists to four months and one day in prison for an attack on public morals and indecency," Souheib Bahri told Agence France Presse.

With no end in sight to Syria's conflict, some refugees in Jordan are offering their daughters for early marriage in the hope of securing them protection as they face growing economic pressure.

Syrian refugee Abu Mohammad says he reluctantly opted to marry off his teenage daughter to a rich 40-year-old Saudi man, hoping to give her a better life and ease his family's financial hardships.

Jordanian journalists demonstrated on Wednesday against a "repressive" government decision to block unlicensed local news websites, as experts voiced alarm over freedom of expression.

"We gathered today to tell King Abdullah II that the government's repressive decision violates the constitution," Nasser Lafi, editor of Busala, or compass, news website, told Agence France Presse.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will fly to Britain a day before next week's G8 summit for talks with David Cameron on the conflict in Syria, the British prime minister announced Wednesday.

The two leaders will meet at Cameron's Downing Street office on Sunday, before heading to Northern Ireland for the summit of Group of Eight nations on Monday and Tuesday.