The leader of Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed in an American Central Intteligence Agency (CIA) drone strike today.

Condemning the strikes, a Pakistani minister said that the strike had destroyed attemtps to hold peace talks with the Taliban militants.

US officials have confirmed that Israel has carried out air strikes in Syria, allegedly targeting weapons which were to be sent to Hezbollah.

The strike was carried out in Latakia, a stronghold of beseiged Syria President Bashar al-Assad, where Russian made missiles were reportedly being prepared to be sent to the Lebanese organisation.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based activist network, reported,

The trial of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at the International Criminal Court, has been delayed until next year, after prosecutors stated they need more time to prepare their case.

Proceedings will now begin on February 5th instead of November 12th, although the Kenyan government want it pushed back even further.

Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor, stated the introduction of new witnesses and evidence 'merit further investigation', but added that,

"The Prosecution does not accept that the Accused’s presidential duties are a reason to delay the trial,”

Bunagana, a town in the east of the democratic Republic of Congo, has been captured from M23 rebels by the army.

"Bunagana is completely under our control. We had been fighting since the early morning," DR Congo's government spokesman Lambert Mende told the AFP news agency.

The town near the Ugandan border was the main base of the group and their political leader Bertrand Bisimwa was reported to have surrendered to Ugandan officials after crossing the border.

However M23 officials denied that Bisimwa had fled.

The international human rights organisation Amnesty International has expressed concern over developments in Guatemala, where former President Effrain Ríos Montt is reportedly being considered for an amnesty by the country's Constitutional Court, after being found guilty of genocide.

Guatemalan prosecution lawyer Juan Francisco told Amnesty International,

The Asian Human Rights Commission has claimed that Australia supplied heicopters to Indonesia, which were then used against civilians in West Papau in the 1970's, in a "genocidal" crackdown.

According to a report released by the organisation, two Iroquois helicopters suplied by Australia, were used by the Indonesian military in 1977 ad 1978. They were used as part of a campaign against the pro-independence Free Papau Movement.

Basil Fernando, the AHRC director for policy and programme development, said,

Two senior commanders with al-Shabab have been killed in an air strike that targeted their car in southern Somalia.

Villagers told the BBC that it was probably a drone strike that killed the militants.

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Prosecutors in Romania have charged a second man with genocide, for his role in running a communist-era prison in the country.

85-year-old Ion Ficor was the commander of the Periprava labour camp from 1958-1963, and was charged after 5 skeletons were discovered from unmarked graves near the prison site.

Andrei Muraru of the Romanian Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes (IICCMER) was quoted by the BBC as saying,

As Iran and the USA gear up for talks over Iran's nuclear program, Tehran has removed a spate of anti-American posters that were posted across the city.

The posters, which read "American Honesty", were put up in recent days in an apparent attempt to discredit upcoming talks. The photograph in the poster depicts an American negotiator wearing a suit jacket seated at a table, with an attack dog by his side.

The move to remove the posters was slammed by the Conservative Kayhan newspaper which said,

Syrian Kurdish fighters have siezed a border crossing into Iraq, after fierce battles with Al-Qaeda linked jihadist groups, according to reports.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had said the Kurds

"took control of the Al-Yaarubia border crossing with Iraq at dawn after clashes with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Al-Nusra Front and other rebels".

The border is a key supply route for the jihadists, and come amidst increasing reports of fighting between the various groups opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.