President Salva Kiir's spokesman says a legal team studying the bill took issue with several clauses in the draft law.
Some locals are unhappy with the decision to pick up the $18.3 million tab, saying South Sudan should be spending its money on development projects.
Opponents of the bill say it would give the national security forces excessive powers, and want the president to return it to parliament for further debate and amendments.
In a three-age letter to President Salva Kiir, lawmakers from the Equatoria region say the bill would further divide South Sudan if it becomes law.
The commissioner of Raja County in Western Bahr el Ghazal says 24 people, including women and children, were wounded in the bombing raid on a village.
Eight people, including four peacekeepers from India, were wounded in the fight between machete-wielding youths, a U.N. spokesman says.
Three factions of South Sudan's ruling SPLM party accept responsibility for 10 months of fighting and vow to end what they call South Sudan's civil war.
The screenings will take place in states unaffected by fighting, and new data will tell the Juba government how many children in South Sudan are under-nourished.
Amnesty International urges President Salva Kiir to send the bill - which grants the National Security Service (NSS) the power to arrest suspected criminals without a warrant, access information and seize property - back to parliament for revisions.
UN Special Envoy Zainab Bangura says mothers of newborns, elderly women, and children as young as 10 are being raped on a daily basis in South Sudan.
SPLA spokesman Philip Aguer says reporters who don't comply with the new directive will be taken to court.
In her first news conference since arriving in South Sudan, Ellen Margrethe Loej says she will "impartially" carry out the revised mandate for UNMISS, which is focussed on protecting civilians.
A former commander of the military barracks in Yei opens fire on the lieutenant colonel who succeeded him, suspecting him of witholding his pay.
A police officer who saw the crash between a passenger bus heading from Juba to Kampala and a truck says the truck was driving on the wrong side of the road.
The agriculture minister and aid agencies say although food security has improved in South Sudan, hundreds of thousands of people are still going hungry, and the situation could deteriorate when the dry season returns next year.
A spokesman for government forces blames the fighting on opposition forces, who he says are trying to gain control of the economy by seizing control of oil-rich Upper Nile state.
There are new calls for the talks, which have been boycotted by both of the warring parties on separate occasions, to be between the government and main opposition only, instead of being multilateral.
Flights are stopped until an investigation into the crash, in which three of the helicopter's four Russian crew members were killed, is completed.
No reason was given for the firing of Rebecca Nyandeng from her post of advisor to the president on issues of gender and human rights, but a presidential spokesman says she has been "working for the downfall of the government."
IGAD says it is particularly dismayed by the fact the fighting came hard on the heels of a visit by U.N. Security Council officials to South Sudan, who expressed disappointment with the country's slow progress towards peace.
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