Eighty-five people have been killed in Nice, France after a truck drove into the crowds gathered to celebrate Bastille Day last night before firing shots at those trying to flee.

The driver of the truck ploughed into the crowds for 2km before French police shot him dead.

The attack was condemned by the French president Francois Hollande who said it was of "an undeniable terrorist nature".

Human rights group Amnesty International has accused the Egyptian regime of forcibly disappearing and torturing hundreds of people, including political activists, students and protestors.

The group says many of the disappeared, some as young as 14, have been held for months.

The Egyptian government has denied the allegations.

Relatives of Marie Colvin, a veteran journalist killed in Syria in 2012, have filed a lawsuit claiming she was deliberately targeted by the Syrian government.

The lawsuit alleges that veteran Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin was killed in order to silence her reporting on Syria and Homs.

Indian troops opened fire on thousands of protesters killing at least eight civilians from south Kashmir reports Al Jazeera.

The shooting came after tens of thousands of people defied a curfew in Kashmir to pay respects to a Kashmiri rebel fighter, Burwan Wani, who was shot dead by security forces.

Two former mayors from Rwanda have been jailed for life in France for their role in the 1994 genocide in the country.

Tito Barahira, 65, and Octavien Ngenzi, 58, were found guilty of crimes against humanity and genocide, including during the massacre of 2,000 Tutsis in a church in Kabarondo/.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has been targeted with sanctions by the US over human rights abuses.

The US treasury said Mr Kim was "directly responsible" for human rights violations and blacklisted him alongside ten other officials. The sanctions will freeze any property held by the individuals in the US and ban US citizens from conducting business with them.

The United Nations Secretary General Bank Ki-moon slammed Israel’s decision to advance plans to build further hundreds more units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, reports Reuters.

Ban Ki-moon’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric in a statement released on Tuesday, said,

UN peacekeepers warned the UN security council has started to develop contingency plans for the event of widespread violence in Congo, said the UN Secretary General on Tuesday.

Three seemingly coordinated suicide bomb attacks took place in Saudi Arabia on Monday as Ramadan draws to an end.

One bomb targeted a mosque of the Prophet Mohammad in the city of Medina, considered one of the holiest cities in Islam.

Another bomb went off in the city of Qatif, whilst another near the US consulate in Jeddah.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.

The United Nations Security Council has condemned an attack on a café in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, which killed twenty hostages and two police officers on Friday night.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for two bombings in Baghdad over night which over 120 dead and over 200 injured.

The bombs went off at a shopping area as people celebrated Ramadan.

The attack comes after Iraqi forces won Falluja last month.

The Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi declared three days of morning.

A rights group in Myanmar was forced to cancel the launch of a report on alleged army torture and war crimes, the Guardian reports.

Ta'ang Women's Organisation (TWO) claimed that the regional government forced two hotels in Yangon to cancel their booking for the launch event.