Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today rejected European Union guidelines that banned member states from funding projects in Jewish settlements.

The Burmese president Thein Sein is due to visit the UK and will meet British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Thein Sein will discuss trade, aid, democracy and human rights with the PM, but human rights organisations have urged Cameron to raise concerns about continuing violence against Muslims and repressive laws.

The Bangladeshi war crimes tribunal today found, the former leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party, Ghulam Azam,  guilty of, planning, conspiracy, incitement and complicity to commit genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1971 conflict.

The Congolese town of Kamango has been attacked by members of the Ugandan rebel Allied Democratic Forces on Thursday.

Over 30,000 were forced to flee the border town after the attack. The Congolese army has now retaken the town from the rebels.

Violent clashes between street protesters and police erupted ahead of a court verdict against a prominent Islamist, Ghulam Azam, for allegedly orchestrating atrocities during the 1971 war against Pakistan.

The head of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has called for more attacks on schools that teach “Western education”, in a video released this weekend supporting an attack that left 46 students dead earlier this month.

Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram (roughly translated to ‘Western education is sin’), stated,

At least seven international peacekeepers have been killed and 17 wounded after coming under heavy fire from a large group of armed personnel in Sudan’s Darfur region.

A former Rwandan colonel was arrested in France over his alleged role in the 1994 genocide earlier this week, his lawyers announced on Saturday.

Appeals judges at the United Nations Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have reinstated a charge of genocide against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić, after it was dismissed last year.

The count of genocide being reinstated means that Karadzic will now face 11 charges in total, including for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre that saw more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys slaughtered by Serb forces.

According to a new report, ‘Walk the Talk’ by Amnesty International, Zimbabwean police are continuing to target and intimidate human rights defenders ahead of elections later this month.

The Pakistani Taliban have set up a base in Syria to assess "the needs of the jihad", according to a spokesperson.

Mohammed Amin, coordinator of the base, said to the BBC that it was set up six months ago to monitor the “jihad”.