Islamabad  - Taliban forces in Pakistan's restive valley of Swat, in talks Friday with a cleric who signed a peace deal with the government earlier this week, refused to disarm until Islamic sharia is completely enforced in the region, a Taliban spokesman said.

Maulana Sufi Mohammad, the top signatory of the Monday's peace deal with regional government in North West Frontier Province, tried to convince his son-in-law and Taliban leader in Swat, Maulana Fazlullah, to abandon violence in the talks held at an undisclosed location.

Warsaw  - Some 300 people held a largely peaceful anti-NATO protest in Krakow's main square as the alliance's defence ministers met in the southern Polish city.

The protests were organized by the Stop War Initiative, the August 80 trade union and the Anarchist Federation, reported the Polish Press Agency PAP.

"We're against NATO's politics, and we demand pulling out forces from Afghanistan and a halt to the arms race," protester Katarzyna Puzon told PAP. "We find it equally absurd to be spending public money in the times of crisis."

Sana'a, Yemen - The leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasser al-Wahishi, called on Yemeni tribes on Thursday to rebel against the government and to confront security forces pursuing al-Qaeda members in their areas.

In an audiotape posted on Islamist web sites, al-Wahishi linked the clampdown on Jihadists in five desert provinces to the deployment of Western navy forces in the Gulf of Aden to fight piracy.

Five Dolphins seem to be stuck in a tight situation in a harbour in Newfoundland, near Seal Cove. They are stuck in pack ice over there which has led the mayor, Winston May, to send out an SOS for ice breakers to save the wonderful creatures.

"They keep going round circles and trying to keep this little pool of water open so that they can have their breathing area," he said. But he added that they will not be able to survive for much longer if not rescued.

Buenos Aires  - The cruise ship Ocean Nova managed to get out of trouble at high tide in the early hours of Thursday, two days after running aground near an Argentine military base in Antarctica.

Quark Expeditions, the US-based company that operates the ship, said its hull suffered no damage, according to Spanish divers who inspected the 73-metre-long Ocean Nova. There were also no fuel leaks.

Beirut  - The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah has adopted "extraordinary security changes," in light of the recent discovery and arrest of a man suspected of spying on the group for Israel since the mid-1990s, a Lebanese security source said Thursday.

The source, who did not want to be identified, confirmed the measures, as reported earlier in the Lebanese daily Al Balad, but gave no details.

The changes were a reaction to the movement's detection and detention of suspected spy Marwan Faqih by Hezbollah in January. The car dealer allegedly began spying on Hezbollah in the mid-1990s for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency.