A Pakistani court on Friday issued an arrest warrant for former president Pervez Musharraf and former prime minister Shaukat Aziz over the killing of a Baluch rebel leader, a lawyer said.

Musharraf was president and Aziz prime minister when the main leader of the rebel movement in southwestern province Baluchistan, tribal chieftain Nawab Akbar Bugti, died in a cave hideout during an army raid in August 2006.

A suspected radical Islamist gunman who opened fire Friday near the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo was wounded and arrested, a police spokesman told Bosnian television.

"The person who fired an automatic weapon was wounded and arrested during the police operation. After receiving medical treatment on the scene the person was hospitalized," police spokesman Irfan Nefic told national BHT television.

More than 30,000 supporters of Pakistan's main opposition party took to the streets in a protest rally Friday, burning an effigy of President Asif Ali Zardari and demanding that he quit.

The Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) called the rally in Lahore to exploit talk of early elections in its political heartland, where it controls the Punjab provincial government despite being in opposition at national level.

A Kenyan man was sentenced to life imprisonment Friday after he admitted involvement in a grenade attack and membership of the al-Qaida linked Somali Shebab militant group.

"This sentence is harsh because police have provided evidence showing he intended to hurt the public," said Judge Grace Macharia at the sentencing of Elgiva Bwire Oliacha. "It is also meant to be a deterrent," she added.

The High Court in London will rule on Wednesday on Sweden's bid to secure the extradition from Britain of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over rape allegations, the court said on Friday.

"The High Court will hand down judgment in the above case at 9:45am (09:45 GMT) on Wednesday 2 November 2011 at the Royal Courts of Justice, London," said a statement.

Hundreds of supporters of Pakistan's main opposition party started to gather for a protest rally on Friday, calling on President Asif Ali Zardari to step down.

The Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) is expected to draw large crowds at the rally in its political heartland, the city of Lahore where it controls the Punjab provincial government despite being in opposition at a national level.

Italy's cabinet declared a state of emergency on Friday for the areas devastated by torrential downpours in Italy's Tuscany and Liguria regions, as the number of people killed by the floods rose to seven.

Rescue workers struggling to clear villages hit by mudslides and floodwater were still looking for seven people reported missing.

Rescuers Friday pulled a 12-year-old boy from the rubble of Turkey's earthquake after he had lain trapped more than 100 hours, as the death toll in the disaster rose to 573.

The end of Ferhat Tokay's 108-hour ordeal gave fresh hope to rescue crews who have been working round the clock in sub-zero temperatures, while concerns deepened about the plight of survivors.

A suicide attack targeted a police officer in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing him and his driver on the outskirts of the garrison city of Nowshera, police said.

The suicide bomber blew himself up alongside the officer's private car as his driver slowed down to approach a speed bump in Risalpur. The targeted officer was the local police official in charge of the suburb.

An Israeli man pleaded guilty in New Jersey on Thursday to brokering kidney transplants as part of a black market organ business, U.S. prosecutors said.

Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, 60, confessed in federal court in Trenton, New Jersey, to three counts of acquiring and transferring human organs and a fourth count of conspiracy.