A new aid flotilla aiming to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip threatens to deal a fresh blow to Turkish-Israeli ties, a year after a bloody Israeli seizure of a Turkish activist ship.

Bilateral relations remain stuck in crisis after several fence-mending meetings between the one-time allies over the past year failed to yield results, a Turkish diplomat told Agence France Presse.

Russia on Tuesday hosted an envoy of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, telling Tripoli to obey a U.N. resolution on Libya as Moscow seeks to position itself as a mediator in the conflict.

The visit to Moscow by Mouhammad Ahmed al-Sharif, general secretary of the World Islamic Call Society, the Libya-based group founded by Gadhafi, comes as Russia is also preparing to hold talks with rebels fighting the regime.

Bahrain's parliament voted Tuesday to accept the resignations of the remaining seven Shiite opposition MPs, who had walked out along with 11 others in February in protest against violence.

The parliament announced "accepting the resignation of the remaining members (representing) al-Wefaq Islamic Association in the chamber," BNA state news agency said.

Syria's opposition called for a general strike Wednesday in defiance of a government campaign to crush pro-democracy protests, as the army pressed its siege of the restive town of Tall Kalakh, the latest target of its violent crackdown.

"Wednesday will be a day of general strike in Syria," said a statement posted on the Facebook page of the Syrian Revolution 2011, an Internet-based opposition group that has been a motor of protests that erupted two months ago.

Two Palestinian protesters who infiltrated Israel from Syria on Sunday during huge demonstrations on the Israeli border were deported on Tuesday, a military spokeswoman said.

"Two people who infiltrated the Golan from Syria were expelled through Quneitra," she said, referring to a crossing post situated on the United Nations-supervised armistice line between Syria and Israel.

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is to apologize to the nation and plead for amnesty, three months after he was overthrown by a popular uprising, according to a report in the independent daily al-Shorouk.

The report to appear in Tuesday's edition quoted Egyptian and Arab official sources as saying that Mubarak was "drafting a letter which will be broadcast on Egyptian and Arabic channels, apologizing on behalf of himself and his family for any offence caused to the people."

The Arab League has asked satellite operator Arabsat -- which it owns -- to stop transmitting Libyan state-owned channels, the 22-member bloc said in a statement distributed on Monday.

The Arab League's council of ministers "has requested the Arab Satellite Communications Organization to halt the transmission of the Libyan Jamahiriya channel and all television channels affiliated with the Libyan authorities, in compliance with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973," it said.

Iran on Monday ordered the return home of two boats carrying Iranian "activists" to Bahrain to express solidarity with Shiite-led protests there, the English-language Press TV said.

The channel's reporter traveling with the activists said in a live broadcast that the boats had been ordered to return and activists were throwing in the water letters they were carrying as "moral support" to Bahraini Shiites.

Russia was due Tuesday to hold previously unannounced talks with envoys of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi amid efforts by Moscow to help mediate an end to an international campaign it has opposed.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the meetings with the Tripoli government representatives will be followed by talks with rebel envoys from Benghazi at a later date.

NATO on Monday carried out fresh air raids east of Libya's capital, destroying a radar base, residents in the neighborhood and JANA state news agency reported.

A radar station in the heart of a residential area was destroyed in Tajura, residents of the eastern suburb told Agence France Presse, adding they heard three loud explosions and blasts further to the east.