Farc's leader Rodrigo Londono Echeverri said he ordered his organisation to stop buying arms in September.

Mr Echeverri said this showed the rebel group's commitment to scaling down the conflict with the Colombian army.

A former British soldier has been arrested over the Bloody Sunday killings in Derry, which left 14 Catholic protestors dead.

British troops opened fire on a civil rights march by Catholics in the city in the north of Ireland in January 1972, during the height of the Troubles.

The 66 year old who was arrested is a former member of the Parachute Regiment and is thought to be questioned in Belfast over the deaths of William Nash, Michael McDaid and John Young.

Kate Nash, whose 19-year-old brother, William, was killed on Bloody Sunday, said she welcomed the news.
"I had a call this morning from the police liaison officer that deals with our family," Ms Nash said to the BBC.

"She said that they had arrested a soldier and that he was being questioned. She said she wanted the family to know first before it went out on the news.

The arrest of a prominent Biafra activist has sparked protests by hundreds of people in Nigeria's south.

Nnamdi Kanu, who supports the creation of an independent Biafra and is the director of a banned radio station, was arrested last month and is still being held despite a court order to free him, his mainly ethnic Igbo supporters say, according to the BBC.

Myanmar’s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, said that it expects it has won about 70% of the seats in Myanmar’s historic election this past weekend. Over 90 parties contested for the 498 seats in Myanmar’s parliament. While official results have been slow in coming out, the BBC has reported that 48 of the 54 seats reported have been won by the NLD.

Turnout for the election was estimated at about 80% of the 30 million who were eligible to vote. The Rohingya Muslim community were not among those eligible.

While many are concerned about possible issues with transition, in an early and significant result, the speaker of the Lower House of Parliament conceded defeat in his constituency to the NLD candidate. Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has been criticised for failing to speak on the Rohingya issue, but with U.S. backed economic sanctions on the country, it will be a critical issue for the new parliament to address.

When Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi contested in Myanmar’s last free election in 1990, she led her democratic party to win 80% of the seats, against military proxies. The military then arrested and detained her for a period of almost 15 years until she was finally released for the last time in November 2010.

Turkish authorities have arrested 44 suspected supporters of exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of plotting to overthrow the government.

According to Anadolu news agency, the arrested included several top bureaucrats and police officers.

China's President Xi Jinping will meet with the Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou in a historic summit in Singapore on Saturday, the first meeting between the leaders of both countries.

The leaders said the talks would focus on bilateral ties. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and does not officially recognise its independence.

Ballots have gone out in Hawai'i to elect delegates to a convention which could create a government independent of the United States.

Polls to the convention, or 'aha, opened on Monday. Only Native Hawai'ians will be able to take part in the election, which will last till the end of the month.

Two Indian soldiers were killed in clashes with Pakistani forces in the disputed Kashmir territory.

An Indian army officer said Pakistani troops fired machine guns and grenades in the Gurez area of Bandipora district on Monday evening.

The violence occurred days before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's scheduled visit to Indian-administered Kashmir.

A trilateral meeting between the leaders of China, Japan and South Kora has ended with the complete restoration of trade and security ties, at the first meeting of this nature since 2012.

Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP), led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has regained its majority in parliament, which it lost during elections in June.

State-run Anadolu Agency said AKP had won 49.4% of the vote, with the main opposition CHP on 25.4%.

An opposition MP was attacked in Myanmar, just a week ahead of historic elections in the country.

Naing Ngan Lin, an MP with Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, was attacked by men wielding knives and swords at a campaign rally.