Turkey’s deputy prime minister has offered an apology in an effort to appease anti-government protesters, as they stormed the street for the fifth consecutive day.
Fighting has erupted in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Syrian rebels, leaving at least 15 people dead.
Lebanese media reported that Hezbollah fighters were preparing to launch rockets when they were attacked by the Syrian rebels.
Three members of the House of Lords have been suspended after they agreed to do parliamentary work for money.
Undercover journalists of the Sunday Times filmed Ulster Unionist Lord Laird and Labour's Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate and Lord Cunningham, offering to help a fake company.
Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, will hold elections by the end of July, reported the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation on Sunday.
On Friday, a constitutional court ruled that parliamentary and presidential polls must take place before 31st July, and a date must be fixed by 29th June.
Libyan officials announced today that it will appeal to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to reverse its decision to prosecute Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, a son of the country’s leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Former leaders of the Khmer Rouge, who are now facing trial for charges of genocide in Cambodia, have expressed their regret over atrocities committed by the regime during their trial this week.
China slammed US calls for accountability to those killed during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, accusing the US "prejudice".
In a statement the US State Department urged China to "end harassment of those who participated in the protests and fully account for those killed, detained, or missing."
Mothers of victims of China's Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 slammed the President Xi Jinping for failing to launch political reform stating that he was taking China "backwards towards Maoist Orthodoxy".
Demanding justice for those that were killed by China's state forces, the group of mothers published an open letter via Human Rights Watch, arguing that hope for political reform had descended into despair.
In a letter to The Guardian, Desmond Tutu and a group of politicians, actors, playwrights and sports personalities, urged UEFA not to hold the Under-21 European Championship in Israel.
The head of the Eritrean consulate in Toronto has been ordered to leave Canada after breaching UN sanctions.
Semere Ghebremariam Micael is alleged to have demanded a 2% “diaspora tax” and “national defence fees” from Eritreans in the country, in violation of Canadian law and the sanctions imposed on Eritrea by the UN.