Egypt's general prosecutor on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for Florida Pastor Terry Jones and filmmaker Nakoula Bassely Nakoula, among others.

The North African branch of al Qaeda has called for attacks on U.S. diplomats as well as for increasing protests against the controversial YouTube video “Innocence of Muslims,” The Associated Press reports.

In its statement, the group called on Muslims to pull down flags at embassies, as well as kill or expel American diplomats in order to “purge our land of their filth in revenge for the honor of the Prophet.”

The statement also praised the killing of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi, Libya.

In addition, the group threatened attacks in several North African states, including Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania and Algeria, and charged the United States with "lying to Muslims for more than 10 years, saying its war was against terrorism and not Islam."

The group in North Africa is not the only al Qaeda branch in the Middle East to call for more attacks. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, allegedly the most active al Qaeda branch, has also called for more attacks.

The calls for more violence and protests come after a rash of attacks on U.S. embassies and consulates in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Tunisia and Indonesia. There have been protests outside several other embassies, including the U.S. Embassy in London. As a result, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, has taken the precaution of burning classified material, The Hill reported on Monday.

The GOP candidate dismissed the likelihood of a two-state solution in a secretly recorded address from a fundraising dinner.

Your morning global affairs speed-read

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder and other U.S. officials are scheduled to meet with top officials from President Felipe Calderon's Cabinet today as the United States shifts its focus from military aid to combat drug dealers to beefing up Mexico's judicial system. [The Wall Street Journal]

Aid on hold: The anti-American protests that have rocked the Middle East have stalled plans for a $1 billion debt relief plan to Egypt, The Washington Post reports. Egypt owes the United States about $3 billion.

Visit by a lady: Clinton delivers introductory remarks at an event honoring Burmese human rights leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the U.S. Institute of Peace today. The 12:30 event, which will be streamed live here, is the first of several appearances by the Burmese lawmaker, who is in Washington this week to accept the congressional Gold Medal.

Diplomats at the United States Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, have begun burning classified materials as a precaution against the spread of the mob violence that has erupted at American diplomatic missions throughout the Middle East and beyond, according to The Associated Press.

The embassy also sent Lebanese staffers home due to concerns regarding Hezbollah and protests against an incendiary YouTube video titled “Innocence of Muslims.” 

The State Department on Monday reiterated its advice that Americans avoid “all travel to Lebanon because of current safety and security concerns” as tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Beirut in what appears to be the biggest anti-American protest to date over the American-made online video that has sparked the violent riots.

The Beirut march was called by Hassan Nasrallah, the chief of Hezbollah, which the United States considers a terrorist group.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday joined calls for Congress to launch its own investigation into the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. He said it “defies common sense” that the attack was unplanned, as Obama administration officials contend.

Susan Rice, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday that the attack appeared to have spiraled out of a spontaneous protest in reaction to the anti-Islam video that first sparked protests in Cairo last week.

“Soon after that spontaneous protest began outside of our consulate in Benghazi, we believe that it looks like extremist elements, individuals, joined in that effort with heavy weapons of the sort that are, unfortunately, readily now available in Libya post-revolution,” Rice said. “And that it spun from there into something much, much more violent.”

Twenty-six percent approved of Romney's comments critical of Obama, with 48 disapproving and 26 percent with no opinion.

Obama's spokeswoman cited Romney's "disastrous trip overseas" and saying Obama was "sympathizing with the attackers" as examples of Romney's unreadiness.

A top Iranian nuclear official said explosions had cut power lines at an underground site and suggested IAEA was responsible.