Former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan has been admitted to hospital during his trial on Wednesday, making him the second leader facing trial to be taken ill and hospitalised this week.
81-year old Khieu Samphan, also known as Brother Number 2, joins 86-year old Nuon Chea, at the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh. Former regime Foreign Minister Ieng Sary also stayed at the same hospital last year after he also fell ill during trial.
A US official has told reporters that the US will officially recognise the Somali government, for the first time in over 20 years.
Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson said that the news will be made official at a meeting between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud tomorrow.
The Prime Minister of Greenland Kuupik Kleist has said that his government will not favour the EU over China or other potential investors for access to the country’s rare earth minerals.
Kleist said it would not be fair "to protect others' interests more than protecting, for instance, China's" according to the BBC.
A covert intensive investigation, by the US consul general in Istanbul, Scott Fredric Kilner, into chemical weapons in Syria has concluded that the Syrian military used them against its own people, in a deadly attack last month.
The Swiss foreign minister has said Switzerland will file a petition on Monday to call on the International Criminal Court to open war crimes investigations in Syria.
“Serious war crimes are being committed in Syria. We must make sure they not go unpunished,” Didier Burkhalter told Swiss national television TSR.
The UN Security Council and US government have given the go-ahead for M23 rebels to be involved in peace talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo government despite placing sanctions against some of the rebel leaders.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for an international investigation into human rights abuses in North Korea, labelling the situation as “deplorable”.
In a statement released earlier on Monday, Pillay said,
The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has questioned French President Francois Hollande as to why he had met one of the assassinated Kurdish activists.
Sakine Cansiz was a founder member of the PKK and was shot by unknown assailants in Paris, along with two fellow activists.
Israeli police evicted Palestinian activists protesting against a planned Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
Hundreds of police together with bulldozers surrounded the protest camp, named Bab al-Shams after a Palestinian village that had existed near it previously, and evicted around 200 activists.
The British government has deployed Royal Air Force planes to assist France in their effort against rebels in Northern Mali.
Britain has sent the first of two RAF C17 cargo planes into Paris, where it will be loaded with military equipment before making its way to Mali. Downing Street stressed however that UK troops would not be involved in combat operations
Britain will spend some of its budget training an Ethiopian paramilitary security force, which stands accused of numerous human rights abuses, according to an internal document of the Department For International Development (DFID).
