Congolese rebels have threatened to walk away from this week’s peace talks following an increased presence of government troops in the east.

The rebel, March 23 Movement(M23), affirmed that they would walk away unless the government agreed to sign an official ceasefire.

US forces have landed in Turkey to man Patriot missile stations along the Syrian border, reported Turkish state media Anadolu.

Patriot missile defense batteries were station in the region by U.S., Germany and the Netherlands in response to Syrian attacks on border villages.

Nato will be in overall control of the missiles and the soldiers, while the missiles will be operated by US troops.

Nepal’s government has summoned the UK ambassador in protest at the arrest by British police of a Nepali army officer on allegations of torture.

Col Kumar Lama, a serving member of Nepal's army who was visiting the UK, is accused of torturing a detainee in 2005 during Nepal's civil war.

A 46-year old man from Nepal has been arrested by London’s Metropolitan Police, over allegations of torture, committed in 2005 during the war in Nepal.

He was held on Thursday in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex and is currently detained in a police station in neighbouring Sussex.

French Member of Parliament has submitted a new draft of a bill that will criminalise denial of the Armenian genocide of 1915, after France’s highest court deemed it unconstitutional last year.

The UN Security Council has placed sanctions on the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The sanctions, imposed on New Years’ Eve, mean that those connected to the rebels will face travel bans and the freezing of their assets.

Sanctions were also placed on Rwanda’s FDLR rebel movement.

Iran has slammed a new US law, intended to curb Iran's influence in Latin America.

President Obama signed the "Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act" last week, which gave the US State Department 180 days to develop a plan to "address Iran's growing hostile presence and activity".

Five female teachers and two aid workers were killed on Tuesday by gunmen on motorcycles in Swabi, Pakistan.

The victims had been working with an NGO, Support With Working Solution, on polio immunisation campaigns.

The Colombian military has announced that 13 Farc rebels have been killed in an air strike.

Air force officials said they had hit a camp in the northwest of the country on New Years’ Eve and has found 13 bodies.

Bosnian prosecutors charge former members of their armed and police forces with war crimes allegedly committed against Serbian civilians during the Bosnian War which took place over a decade ago.

The UN is to end its peacekeeping mission in East Timor on Monday, after 13 years and over 1500 UN troops.

In a statement, the chief of the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste, Finn Reske-Nielson, said,

A bomb, considered to be "viable device", was found on Sunday in East Belfast, under the car of a police officer, after being discovered by an off-duty officer.

Blaming dissident republicans, the Northern Ireland Police Federation said,