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Beirut  - Lebanese farmers on Tuesday accused Israel of deliberately flooding their land with excess rainwater from an Israeli orchard across the border, according to media reports.

Voice of Lebanon radio reported that the water flooded fields near the southern town of Mais al-Jabal on Tuesday, ruining crops and properties.

Lebanese farmers who called on the Lebanese army and United Nations peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) to launch an investigation, according to the report.

Bogota  - Two Roman Catholic priests were killed by a former student at a boarding school for members of indigenous communities in the Colombian region of Vichada, the authorities said Tuesday in the area on the Venezuelan border.

The priests Gabriel Montoya, 40, and Jesus Jimenez, 45, were shot to death late Monday while they were in the Internet room of the school Mision La Pascua, in the jungle town of La Primavera.

Maputo - At least 12 people have died in strange circumstances in a prison cell in northern Mozambique, media reports said Tuesday.

The public channel TVM said there was no concrete explanation for the deaths of the inmates at the prison in the Mongincual district of Nampula province. It was also not clear why they were being held at the facility.

The policemen were killed when trying to pacify the mob that attacked red cross volunteers whom they accused of deliberately spreading cholera.

Kiev  - Ukrainian law enforcers on Tuesday formally charged the ethnic Nigerian leader of a hugely popular evangelical Christian church of complicity in bilking his congregation of millions, the Interfax news agency reported.

Pastor Sunday Adelaja, senior pastor of Embassy of God in Kiev, Ukraine, was among the ringleaders in an international scheme to attract funds from Ukrainian churchgoers into questionable Nigerian businesses run by friends and relatives, the accusation read in part.