The 20th of January has been set as the date for when a deal, which will see Iran freeze part of its nuclear program in exchange for an easing of sanctions, will come into effect.

The Spanish government has condemned the regional Basque government over yesterday’s huge protest rally, which saw over 100,000 people pack the streets of Bilbao, reported Euronews.

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Over 100,000 Basques marched through the streets of Bilbao, defying a ban imposed by a court in Madrid.

Following 88-year-old former Nazi guard being charged over wartime killings, Time magazine interviewed Efraim Zuroff from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an organisation that tracks down suspected WWII-era war criminals.

The Israeli government has announced it is planning to build 1,400 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The move is likely to impede progress towards negotiations led by US Secretary of State John Kerry.

The United States is expected to proscribe two Libyan organisations as terrorist groups later this week, in the aftermath of an attack on the US embassy in Benghazi.

Four Americans, including  Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, were killed in the September 2012 attack by suspected Libyan militants.

The Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade has had her plea to delay proceedings against her for visa denied by a federal judge in New York.

Khobragade was detained last month on charges of visa fraud and underpaying her maid, causing outrage in Delhi. The Indian government is demanding an apology from the US for “humiliating” their diplomat.

Human Rights Watch has condemned the killing of 2 Palestinian schoolchildren by Israeli troops, concluding that the young boys 'posed no apparent threat', in a press release earlier this week.

Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said,

A former Nazi guard has been charged with participation in a massacre in Nazi-occupied France, the Guardian reports.