Negotiators from both sides in Cuba agreed to implement the scheme after a finalised political agreement was signed.

Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari said the government will leave "no stone unturned" in investigating the reports of widespread human rights violations committed by the military.

Amnesty International this week released a report saying the military had killed over 8,000 men and boys who were in its custody.

Mr Buhari vowed to "to promote the rule of law and deal with all cases of human rights abuses," during a stop in neighbouring Niger to discuss Boko Haram and pledge a new strategy to fight the terrorists.

A former senior official with the Hungarian Communist Party who was earlier convicted of war crimes will face a retrial, ruled a Budapest appeals court.

Bela Biszku, a 93 year old former Interior Minister, was earlier sentenced to five and a half years imprisonment, after being convicted of war crimes over the shooting of protesters during Hungary’s 1956 uprising against the Soviet regime. The prosecution had initially called for a life sentence, whilst Mr Biszku denied all charges.

However, the latest ruling by a Budapest higher court now means the verdict is void and Mr Biszku will now face a new trial.

At least 20 Indian soldiers are said to have been killed during an attack on a convoy by Maoist fighters in the state of Manipur.

The attack comes amidst increased tensions over the death of a local woman activist,  killed by members of the paramilitary Assam Rifles. The government has accepted responsibility for the death of 55-year old Ruisoting and agreed to pay compensation to her family.

A group of asylum seekers who were rejected from resettling in Australia have arrived in Cambodia under a controversial new resettlement scheme.

The group, consisting of 3 Iranian and 1 Rohingya asylum seekers, were being held at a detention centre on Nauru by Australian authorities.

Through a scheme which has come under intense international criticism, the four were people volunteered to be resettled in Cambodia. The Cambodian government agreed to take them on in exchange for £20 million in aid.

The Israeli government has sharply criticised the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which campaigns for greater isolation of Israel and Israeli trade due to the occupation of Palestinian land, termed as illegal by the UN.

The latest attack on the movement by senior figures, including Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, comes after the UK's National Union of Students decided on Tuesday to support the BDS campaign and French telecoms giant Orange said it wants to cut business ties with Israel.

The prime minister responded angrily on Thursday, calling on "the French government to publicly repudiate the miserable statement and miserable action by a company that is under its partial ownership", AP reported.

US President Barack Obama said Myanmar must “put an end to discrimination” of Rohingya Muslims in the country if it is to succeed on is transition to democracy.

Addressing a group of young Asians at the White House Mr Obama was asked what the country needed to do to succeed, as it begins to shift from decades of military rule.

"I think one of the most important things is to put an end to discrimination against people because of what they look like or what their faith is,” said Mr Obama. “And the Rohingya have been discriminated against. And that’s part of the reason they’re fleeing."

Asked how he would feel about where he would want to live if he was Rohingya, Mr Obama said, "I would want to stay in the land where my parents had lived, but I’d want to make sure that my government was protecting me and that people were treating me fairly."

A summary of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Canada found that actions conducted by the state amounted to cultural genocide, reports CTV news.