At least five people who were served bleach-laced water at a Mister Donut store in Japan had to be treated by medics, the operator said Monday.

Duskin Co, a Japanese cleaning company that also operates the U.S. fast food franchise in the country, said one of its stores in Osaka served a diluted solution of bleach as drinking water on Friday.

The eurozone struck a deadline-day deal with Cyprus Monday to resurrect a bailout for its government, but only after a radical downsizing of the island's financial sector.

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades battled for 12 hours with his euorzone partners and the IMF.

Somali gunmen killed a female radio journalist in Mogadishu, the latest in a string of reporters murdered in the war-ravaged capital, colleagues and witnesses said Monday.

Two men shot dead Rahmo Abdukadir, who worked for the private Radio Abduwaq station, late Sunday.

The curtain is about to go up at a new theater dedicated to Japan's centuries-old kabuki-za performing art, sited in a high-tech venue in a 29-storey Tokyo office building.

The theater in the upscale Ginza shopping district, which will open to the public at the start of next month, will let audiences use portable monitors to read subtitles to explain the sometimes difficult to understand art form.

Arab nations and Turkey, helped by the CIA, have dramatically increased military aid to Syrian rebels in recent months, The New York Times reported Monday.

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was helping their efforts, the newspaper added, citing air traffic data and interviews with unnamed officials and the rebel commanders.

Two people died and two were seriously hurt after an asylum-seeker boat capsized off Australia Monday, but more than 90 were plucked to safety and taken ashore, officials said.

The boat was spotted by Australian customs 14 nautical miles northwest of the Australian territory of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.

The opposition will take over Syria's vacant seat at the Arab League, a high-ranking league official told Agence France Presse Monday, a day ahead of a leaders' summit in Doha.

"The opposition has been invited to the Arab summit and will occupy Syria's seat at the Arab League," the official said.

Negotiations among Eurogroup finance ministers on Cyprus were put back by two hours Sunday as Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades dragged out talks with key leaders about a bailout in a fight to protect his island, a eurozone source said.

The eurozone meeting is now slated to begin at 1900 GMT because of "ongoing" discussions with European Central Bank head Mario Draghi, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, European Union heads Herman Van Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso plus Eurogroup chair Jeroen Dijsselbloem and EU Euro Commissioner Olli Rehn.

Israel and Turkey have "a thousand reasons" to be on friendly terms again following an air-clearing apology over the deaths of nine Turks in a 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Turkish television Sunday.

"I can think of a thousand reasons why Turkey and Israel should be friends; I cannot find one reason why they shouldn't be friends," Peres said in an interview with CNN Turk.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activists from across Asia gathered in Nepal this weekend to plan strategies for overcoming problems in the region, including religion and culture.

The gathering, organised in advance of the next U.N. Human Rights Council session this summer, featured activists from over a dozen countries and Nepalese government officials.