The US Secretary of State John Kerry warned that Israeli-Palestinian peace talks faced difficulties however he believed something is possible.
Addressing crowds at a memorial event for the former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated by a right wing Israeli in 2005, Kerry said:
Long-awaited peace talks on Syria have been delayed after UN diplomats failed to agree on a date on Tuesday, diminishing the likelihood of talks happening this year.
However a senior US official told AFP that Washington was hopeful that the meeting will take place before the end of this year.
Some Conservative MPs from England secretly favour Scottish independence, as it would give the party a permanent majority at Westminster, said former Conservative Secretary, Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, who is Scottish.
Slamming the favouring of party gains over the British union as "foolish", Forsyth said:
A war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh on Sunday sentenced two expatriates- one living in the United States and the other in Britain- to death for the murder of 18 people, who were described as prominent intellectuals during, the country’s 1971 war of Independence from Pakistan.
Two French journalists have been killed in northern Mali, where French troops intervened and have been driving back Islamist militants for most of the year.
Claude Verlon and Ghislaine Dupont, journalists for Radio France Internationale, were kidnapped on Saturday near in Kidal, a town near the Algerian border. Their bullet-ridden bodies were discovered a short time later on the outskirts of the town.
US officials have confirmed that Israel has carried out air strikes in Syria, allegedly targeting weapons which were to be sent to Hezbollah.
The strike was carried out in Latakia, a stronghold of beseiged Syria President Bashar al-Assad, where Russian made missiles were reportedly being prepared to be sent to the Lebanese organisation.
The trial of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at the International Criminal Court, has been delayed until next year, after prosecutors stated they need more time to prepare their case.
Proceedings will now begin on February 5th instead of November 12th, although the Kenyan government want it pushed back even further.
Bunagana, a town in the east of the democratic Republic of Congo, has been captured from M23 rebels by the army.
"Bunagana is completely under our control. We had been fighting since the early morning," DR Congo's government spokesman Lambert Mende told the AFP news agency.
The international human rights organisation Amnesty International has expressed concern over developments in Guatemala, where former President Effrain Ríos Montt is reportedly being considered for an amnesty by the country's Constitutional Court, after being found guilty of genocide.
The Asian Human Rights Commission has claimed that Australia supplied heicopters to Indonesia, which were then used against civilians in West Papau in the 1970's, in a "genocidal" crackdown.
According to a report released by the organisation, two Iroquois helicopters suplied by Australia, were used by the Indonesian military in 1977 ad 1978. They were used as part of a campaign against the pro-independence Free Papau Movement.
Prosecutors in Romania have charged a second man with genocide, for his role in running a communist-era prison in the country.
85-year-old Ion Ficor was the commander of the Periprava labour camp from 1958-1963, and was charged after 5 skeletons were discovered from unmarked graves near the prison site.
