Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner was admitted to hospital late Sunday suffering from fever, her office said.

The 61-year-old president began feeling unwell in the afternoon. She was admitted for tests and monitoring at the Otamendi Clinic in Buenos Aires, the statement signed by doctors Marcelo Ballesteros and Ricardo Solla said.

Burkina Faso's military promised Monday to hand power to a "consensus" leader following the popular uprising that deposed Blaise Compaore, as African nations gave the regime two weeks to return to civilian rule.

The army has stepped into a power vacuum left by Compaore, who was forced to resign last week in the wake of violent demonstrations at his attempt to extend his 27-year-rule that some have likened to the Arab Spring.

Seven Mexican soldiers being held in the June killings of 22 suspected criminals will be tried by a civilian judge, three of them for homicide, federal justice officials said Sunday. 

The troops were ordered arrested Friday by a Mexico state judge for dereliction of duty in the June 30 incident. 

The deputy governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province was shot dead late Sunday by a gunman while attending a class at the university, a local official said.

Abdul Qayim Patyal was rushed to hospital but died of his injuries there, the official Tawab Ghorzang told Agence France-Presse.

Protesters in several parts of France gathered in a sometimes tense atmosphere Sunday in memory of an eco-activist who was killed last weekend during a demonstration against a controversial dam project.

The gatherings in Paris and on the site of the Sivens project in the southwestern region of Tarn came a day after similar protests erupted in violence, leaving several demonstrators and police injured.

The elections may already have been slammed as a farce by the West but those queuing to cast their ballots in east Ukraine's rebel polls on Sunday insisted their voices should be heard. 

"I hope that our votes will change something. Perhaps we will finally be recognized as a real, independent country," Tatyana, 65, said as she waited at a polling station at school number 104 in insurgent stronghold Donetsk.

The Ukrainian military on Sunday reported "intensive" movement of troops and equipment from Russia into the separatist controlled parts of eastern Ukraine.

"There is intensive deployment of military equipment and personnel of the enemy from the territory of the Russian Federation onto territory temporarily controlled by insurgents," Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told a briefing in Kiev.

A Pentagon plan to create an overseas intelligence agency is being trimmed after lawmakers voiced concern with its price and purpose, The Washington Post reported.

The new Defense Clandestine Service, announced by the Pentagon more than two years ago, is to use existing agents, authorities and assets and work closely with the Central Intelligence Agency to track emerging threats.

The Burkina Faso army seized control of the national television headquarters and the capital's main square on Sunday in defiance of calls by the international community and thousands of demonstrators to hand over power to civilian rule.

Troops moved in to Place de la Nation in Ouagadougou, setting up barricades and removing thousands of people who had gathered to denounce the army's power grab after the turbulent ouster of president Blaise Compaore on Friday.

A suicide bomber killed at least 55 people Sunday at the main Pakistan-India border crossing, the blast tearing through crowds of spectators leaving after the colorful daily ceremony to close the frontier.

The explosion, which wounded more than 120, came at Wagah border gate near the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore after the "flag-lowering" ceremony, a display of military pageantry that attracts thousands of spectators every day and is popular with foreign tourists.