Peace talks between Yemen’s government and Houthi militants ended in Geneva without an agreement for a ceasefire, reports the Washington Post.

The UN sponsored talks, ended with an appeal by the global body for $1.6 billion emergency aid to avoid a humanitarian crisis in the region.

Eight Bosnian Croats were arrested by police in Bosnia-Herzegovina on suspicion of having committed war crimes during the conflict in Bosnia in the early 90s, AP reported.

A statement from the prosecution office in Sarajevo said on Thursday the men were members of the Bosnian Croat armed forces and that they are suspected of having arrested and tortured some 200 Bosniak civilians, including women and minors.

Myanmar’s long standing repressive policy toward the Rohingya Muslims was made clear in recent weeks said Human Rights Watch in a damning statement released on Tuesday.

 Senior Asia researcher for HRW, David Scott Mathieson, citing tragic events saw that thousands of Rohingya refugees flee Myanmar on boats, said,

The President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Takehiko Nakao committed to increase lending to India over upcoming years on Tuesday.

Speaking after a meeting with India’s Finance minister and Minister of Urban Development, Mr Nakao, said,

The former Prime Minister of Kosovo, Minister Ramush Haradinaj has been detained in Slovenia, because of an investigation looking into war crimes, during the Balkan conflict in the 1990s.

He was blocked from boarding a flight at Ljubljana Airport, his party reported.

Mr Haradinaj, who was previously been acquitted over war crimes charges from a UN Court, denies allegations that he guided campaigns of murder and torture against Serbs and their allies.

UN has urged he ban of countries from peacekeeping duties, if their troops sexually abused children where they were deployed, after a recent scandal involving French troops.

An internal review, commissioned before the latest scandal broke, recommended that the home countries of peacekeepers are identified annually and a six-month deadline for investigations are imposed on the countries.

It also recommended that countries be obliged to disclose disciplinary action taken against soldiers, as well as governments' failure to report.

At the moment, peacekeepers can only be prosecuted by their own state.

The review panel's chairman, former president of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta stressed "immunity should not mean impunity".

Sri Lankan troops were expelled from Haiti for sexually abusing children in 2007, with 111 soldiers and 3 officers were repatriated back to Sri Lanka after being part of UN mission in Haiti and were accused of a string of sexual assaults, including rape of children as young as 7 years old. No prosecutions or punishments have taken place.

Members of the European Union have agreed to extend economic sanctions on Russia by 6 months, due to its actions in the conflict in Ukraine.

The sanctions, imposed in July 2014, will expire at the end of July this year, and are targeted at Russia's energy, defence and financial sectors.

Ambassadors from the 28 EU states also voted unanimously to extend a ban on investment in Crimea by one year. The peninsula was annexed by Russia in March 2014.

The United States will provide $5 million in support of a regional military force tasked with combating Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants, a State Department official said on Tuesday.

Boko Haram militants currently hold territory equivalent to the size of Belgium, reports Reuters.

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in the Philippines handed over a batch of weapons to be decommissioned, marking the first step of a peace process agreement with the government.

Seventy-five weapons will be decommissioned, as part of what MILF said is a gesture of their commitment to the peace deal, which will see the establishment of a Bangsamoro Autonomous Region.

MILF chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim said the weapons, and the decommissioning of 145 fighters, however, was not a sign of surrender.

"As I look at the faces of each of our 145 brothers here this morning, I see 145 stories of struggle, of pain, of hopelessness and even of death,” he said. “Yet I also see 145 stories of hope and faith that indeed peace is near and that all the sacrifices have been worth it."

"I see not only their stories but my story as well and the stories of all the mujahideen that have given their lives, their intelligence, their talents to the struggle to protect the Bangsamoro people,” added Mr Ebrahim. “What we have today are not the stories of only 145 fighters. What we have today are the stories of the whole Bangsamoro: oppression, tyranny, and yes, liberation."

French authorities have arrested a Rwandan priest on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

The 61 year old man was arrested in Trappes, northern France, executing an international arrest warrant issued by Rwanda’s prosecutor.

It is claimed the individual, an ethnic Hutu, was involved in the killing of up to 1,000 university students after pointing them out to men armed with machetes. He is also accused of personally interrogating and tracking down ethnic Tutsis.