Bosnia has arrested a police commissioner, a lawyer and a third man, all Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims)suspected of having committed war crimes against Bosnian Serb civilians during the war in the early nineties.

The Sarajevo-based lawyer Ibro Merkez and Gorazde police commissioner Esef Huric were arrested on Tuesday on suspcion of having illegally imprisoned more than 100 Serbs from the eastern town of Gorazde at the local police station.

French fighter jets bombarded Islamic State positions on Sunday in what is seen as a direct response to the terror attacks in Paris on Friday night.

France vowed to destroy Islamic state following Friday’s attacks, after Islamic State claimed responsibility for the terror attacks in Paris, which saw suicide bombings and shootings across the French Capital.

12.00 The International Criminal Court granted an early release to a convicted war criminal from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Germain Katanga became the first ICC convict to be freed after being sentenced to 12 years in jail during a trail in 2014.

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said his country would continue to support Syrian rebels if President Bashar al-Assad was not removed through a political process, reports Reuters.

Speaking to press at the sidelines of the international Syria peace talks in Vienna, Adel al-Jubier said,

 Parisian Elite Forces have been deployed across Paris as at least 100 people are thought to have been killed in an array of violent terrorist attacks across the French Capital this evening.

Gunmen and bombers attacked, busy restaurants, bars, a concert hall and a football game in a coordinated attack across the city.

Paris has been placed on curfew for the first time since World War Two and the borders have been indefinitely closed.

Myanmar’s electoral commission announced today that Aung San Suu Kyi’s Opposition National League for Democracy had won a majority of the seats in Parliament, officially confirming the NLD’s victory in last Sunday’s election.

The International Criminal Court said it had evidence of international forces subjecting detainees to physical and psychological abuse, reports Reuters.

The court has been investigating alleged crimes committed by all sides in Afghanistan since 2003.

Myanmar’s President Thein Sein sent his congratulations to Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi on her opposition party’s victory in Sunday election, seen by many as conceding defeat. President Sein, a former general, has led the military-backed government since 2011.

Spain’s Constitutional Court agreed today to hear the Spanish government's appeal against a secession resolution passed by Catalonia’s regional parliaments. The resolution lays out a process to establish a Catalan republic within 18 months.

A former British soldier has been arrested over the Bloody Sunday killings in Derry, which left 14 Catholic protestors dead.

British troops opened fire on a civil rights march by Catholics in the city in the north of Ireland in January 1972, during the height of the Troubles.

The 66 year old who was arrested is a former member of the Parachute Regiment and is thought to be questioned in Belfast over the deaths of William Nash, Michael McDaid and John Young.

Kate Nash, whose 19-year-old brother, William, was killed on Bloody Sunday, said she welcomed the news.
"I had a call this morning from the police liaison officer that deals with our family," Ms Nash said to the BBC.

"She said that they had arrested a soldier and that he was being questioned. She said she wanted the family to know first before it went out on the news.

Farc's leader Rodrigo Londono Echeverri said he ordered his organisation to stop buying arms in September.

Mr Echeverri said this showed the rebel group's commitment to scaling down the conflict with the Colombian army.

The arrest of a prominent Biafra activist has sparked protests by hundreds of people in Nigeria's south.

Nnamdi Kanu, who supports the creation of an independent Biafra and is the director of a banned radio station, was arrested last month and is still being held despite a court order to free him, his mainly ethnic Igbo supporters say, according to the BBC.

Myanmar’s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, said that it expects it has won about 70% of the seats in Myanmar’s historic election this past weekend. Over 90 parties contested for the 498 seats in Myanmar’s parliament. While official results have been slow in coming out, the BBC has reported that 48 of the 54 seats reported have been won by the NLD.

Turnout for the election was estimated at about 80% of the 30 million who were eligible to vote. The Rohingya Muslim community were not among those eligible.

While many are concerned about possible issues with transition, in an early and significant result, the speaker of the Lower House of Parliament conceded defeat in his constituency to the NLD candidate. Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has been criticised for failing to speak on the Rohingya issue, but with U.S. backed economic sanctions on the country, it will be a critical issue for the new parliament to address.

When Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi contested in Myanmar’s last free election in 1990, she led her democratic party to win 80% of the seats, against military proxies. The military then arrested and detained her for a period of almost 15 years until she was finally released for the last time in November 2010.

China's President Xi Jinping will meet with the Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou in a historic summit in Singapore on Saturday, the first meeting between the leaders of both countries.

The leaders said the talks would focus on bilateral ties. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and does not officially recognise its independence.