Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed in an evident gas attack on rebel-held parts of eastern Damascus.

The Syrian government acknowledged it had launched a major offensive though denied using chemical weapons.

The former Pakistani president, Pervez Musharraf, has been charged with the killing of opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benezir Bhutto.

The ex-army chief denies all charges and claims they are politically motivated.

Bhutto was killed at an election rally in 2007, blamed by the then Musharraf-government on the Taliban.

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The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (KLWCT) will hear cases of war crimes and genocide against a retired Israeli army general, Amos Yaron, from the 21^st to the 24^th of August.

The European Union held a first round of talks today to address the escalating violence in Egypt.

The ambassadors of the EU’s political security Committee were called away from their summer break for talks in Brussels.

Spanish fishermen have protested over an artificial reef created by the government in Gibraltar.

Several boats sailed into disputed waters around the British territory, saying the reef restricted their rights to fish in the seas around Gibraltar.

Tensions between Spain, Great Britain and Gibraltar have risen recently, after the creation of the reef and retaliatory measures by the Spanish government, who is questioning the legitimacy of the British territory.

"I am pleased to hear the developments we are making with establishing your Consulate General in Erbil, and I am confident that this presence will take this relationship further."

A delegation made up of Cambodian and United Nations officials from the Khmer Rouge tribunal , will visit South-Asian countries in an attempt to address the court’s funding issues.

The new Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has pledged to move away from “repeating slogans” in foreign diplomacy.

Speaking at the inauguration of the new foreign minister Mohammed Javad Zarif, Rouhani said that he wanted to change Iranian foreign policy, but this does not mean that Iran would abandon its principles.

"Foreign policy is not carried out by repeating slogans," he said.

Israel extradited a Bosnian Serb immigrant to Bosnia on Thursday to face charges over his alleged involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Israel’s Justice Ministry announced today.

An international arrest warrant was placed on the former army driver, Aleksandar Cvetkovic, after witnesses testified that he participated in the mass shootings of civilians.

A bomb has exploded in a Hezbollah dominated neighbourhood in southern Beirut, killing at least 22 people.

It is thought the attack is related to Hezbollah’s involvement in the Syrian conflict, supporting the government.

Hezbollah politicians have condemned the blast as a “terrorist attack” and called on their supporters to remain calm.