Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said Friday that his abduction for several hours the previous day by former rebels was an attempted coup.

"I do not think that more than 100 armed vehicles can seal off the hotel district (in Tripoli) to people without a command being given," he said in a televised address.

At least 12 migrants drowned and 116 were rescued on Friday when their boat capsized off the coast near Egypt's second city Alexandria, a security official said.

Naval vessels were searching for more survivors, the official said, adding that those on board had left Egypt illegally.

U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon said Friday that the Nobel Peace Prize award to the global chemical weapons watchdog highlights the everlasting threat from the banned arms.

"This recognition occurs nearly 100 years after the first chemical attack -- and 50 days after the appalling use of chemical weapons in Syria. Far from being a relic of the past, chemical weapons remain a clear and present danger," Ban said in a tribute to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

A top Palestinian negotiator on Friday slammed what he said was Israel's unwillingness to coordinate on security, after an Israeli settler was killed in the occupied West Bank.

Friday's incident, in which suspected Palestinian militants bludgeoned to death a settler at his home, was the third killing of Israelis in the Palestinian territory in as many weeks.

A suicide bomber gravely wounded three members of the separatist Southern Movement in an attack in the southern Yemeni province of Lahij on Friday, the group and a local official said.

The bomber detonated an explosives belt as an activists' cars headed for the port of Aden for a demonstration on Saturday marking the independence of the former South Yemen.

At least seven Egyptian soldiers were wounded when improvised bombs targeted their armored vehicles in the Sinai border town of Rafah on Friday, a security official said.

The explosions occurred during a military operation in the town bordering the Palestinian Gaza Strip, witnesses said.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday congratulated the world's chemical arms watchdog for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, praising its bravery and resolve in trying to rid Syria of such weapons.

Since more than 1,000 people were killed in August in a sarin gas attack outside Damascus, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has "taken extraordinary steps and worked with unprecedented speed to address this blatant violation of international norms that shocked the conscience of people around the world," Kerry said.

A Tunisian filmmaker who threw an egg at a minister received a suspended five-month sentence Friday while charges were dropped against the videographer who filmed the incident, their lawyer said.

"Nasreddine Shili was sentenced to five months in prison, suspended, while the charges against Mourad Mehrezi were dismissed," their lawyer Koutheir Bouallegue told Agence France Presse.

Around 2,000 Islamists rallied in Cairo Friday after organizers backtracked from marching on Tahrir Square, avoiding a repeat of last week's clashes with police that killed dozens of people.

The Islamist Anti-Coup Alliance urged its supporters to stay away from the iconic square during the protests to avoid more bloodshed after a week in which nearly 80 Egyptians were killed, many of them in the capital.

The U.N. rights office Friday condemned Iraq's "obscene" execution of 42 convicts within a week, saying the country's justice system was too flawed to allow any use of capital punishment.

The strongly-worded statement from the world body's human rights watchdog came a day after Iraq's justice ministry said that 42 people convicted of "terrorism" had been put to death over the past week.