A South African judge barred Sudan’s indicted president form leaving the country on Sunday, amidst calls from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

A judge is expected to hear an application calling for the arrest of President Bashir on Monday.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) called on South Africa to arrest Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir who is attending the African union summit in Johannesburg.

The ICC president Sidiki Kaba in a statement acknowledging South Africa’s contribution to “strengthening the Court,” called on the governmen

The Israeli military cleared itself of responsibility for a missile attack that killed four children on Gaza beach last summer, reports the Guardian.

The former prime minister of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region hailed the gains made by the Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the Turkish elections as “a milestone for Kurdish people”.

The Kurdish party has for the first time won enough votes to enter the Turkish parliament and is being hailed as a watershed moment in Turkish politics.

Barham Salih, the former premier of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, said “not long ago, Kurds were officially nonexistent, at best identified as mountain Turks”. “After decades of denial and persecution, the time for the Kurds has arrived,” he added.

The victory comes as HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtas accusedthe government of having links to the violence that erupted across Kurdish regions this week.

Relations have remained strained with the Turkish government, with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accusing Western nations of backing the Kurdish “terrorists”, whilst bombing Turkmen and Arabs in Syria.

"The West, which has shot Arabs and Turkmens, is unfortunately placing the PYD (the political wing of the YPG) and PKK in lieu of them," said Mr Erdogan in a speech.

An attack by Colombia’s Farc militants has left three police officers dead and hundreds of thousands of Colombians without power.

President Juan Manuel Santos ordered bombing raids on rebel positions, which were halted due to ongoing negotiations, aimed at ending the decades-long conflict.

US President Barack Obama’s senior national security adviser met with a senior Chinese general and stressed the need to reaffirm the two nations commitment to strengthen coordination and develop a “sustained and productive military-to-military relationship.”

A meeting at the White House, between Susan Rice and General Fan Changlong, discusse

A delegation from the prosecutor’s office of the International Criminal Court  is due to arrive in Israel at the end of the month as part of a preliminary investigation into whether war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed in occupied Palestinian territories.

An independent atto

FARC militants in Colombia attacked energy pylons in the southern province amidst stalling peace talks.

The militant group pulled out of a ceasefire with the government three weeks ago, after Colombian air strikes killed a senior FARC negotiator.

The US Supreme Court has overturned legislation passed in 2002, which allowed US citizens born in Jerusalem to enter their country of birth as Israel.

The court said Congress went “too far” in passing the law. The law went against the policy of the State Department, which does not list Israel as the place of birth for Jerusalem-born Americans.

The Turkish government announced it was recalling its ambassador to Brazil following a decision by the Brazilian senate to recognise the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire a century ago as genocide.

Turkey stated that their ambassador had been recalled for consultations and also said it had summoned Brazil’s ambassador to Ankara over the senate decision.

The UK will draft a UN Security Council resolution to mark next month’s 20^th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, reports Reuters.

The British Ambassador to Bosnia, commenting on the resolution on Tuesday, said,