A senior United Nations aid worker has been suspended for disclosing a report outlining sexual abuse by French peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic.

Anders Kompass, who is based in Geneva, passed the document to French authorities due to the UN failure to take action to stop abuse reports The Guardian.

Mr Kompass was suspended from his post as director of field operations, and accused of leaking confidential UN information and breaching protocols.

The aid worker has been placed under investigation by the UN office for internal oversight service (OIOS), with the knowledge of senior UN officials, including the UN Human Rights Chief, Zeid AL Hussein.

The confidential report, Sexual Abuse on Children by International Armed Forces, documented details of the rape and sodomy of starving homeless young boys by French peacekeeping troops in the CAR.

Paula Donovan, the co-director of Aids Free World, calling for an independent commission of inquiry into the matter, said,

The president of France, Francois Hollande, on Thursday said there would be no mercy shown to any French soldiers who were found to have abused children in the Central African Republic while deployed there as UN peacekeeping soldiers.

“If some soldiers have behaved badly, I will show no mercy,” Mr Hollande told reporters.

Earlier this week a leaked UN report found that young boys in a camp for internally displaced persons in CAR had made allegations against a number of soldiers that they had been sexually abused.

Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe offered “eternal condolences” to US soldiers that died in the conflict with Japanese forces during World War Two.

Speaking to US Congress on Wednesday, Mr Abe, expressed “deep repentance” over Japan’s role in World War Two, reports the BBC.

The US called on Iran to help move warring parties in Yemen to peace-talks for a political settlement a US official confirmed on Wednesday.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mahammad Javad Zarif, met with his US counterpart on Monday to discuss Iranian help to get Houthi militants in Yemen to the negotiation table, reports Reuters.

The Nigerian army claimed to have rescued as many as 200 girls and 93 women during an offensive against the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

Dozens of people have been killed in a series of car bombs across Iraq on Sunday and Monday, according to officials.

The Israeli army struck seven UN schools, where Palestinians were sheltering from attacks, killing at least 44, a UN inquiry has found.

According to the UN, at least 2,189 Palestinians died during the 50 day conflict, of which at least 1,486 were civilians.

An independent board of inquiry looked into incidents at ten schools run by the UN, finding that one girls' school was hit by 88 rounds of mortar fire with other schools hit by missiles and anti-tank projectiles.

At another girls' school, the inquiry found, "no prior warning had been given by the government of Israel of the firing of 155mm high explosive projectiles on, or in the surrounding area of the school".

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), a group promoting press freedom, condemned the killings of 5 Libyan journalists by Islamic State militants, in a statement made on Monday.

Islamic State militants killed five journalists working for a Libyan TV station in the eastern regions of the country, a Libyan army commander told press.

Omar al-Bashir has been re-elected as the president of Sudan, with 94% of the vote going to the suspected war criminal, according to the official election results.

The president, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court and is accused of committing genocide in Darfur, has been in power for 25 years, and can now serve for another 5.

Three soldiers with the Israeli Defense Force have been indicted for looting, allegedly committed the violence in Gaza last year, the Los Angeles Times reported.

According to a statement from the Military Advocate General, two soldiers were charged with looting around $600 from a Palestinian house in the Gaza neighborhood of Shajaiyeh and a third soldier was charged with aiding and abetting the theft.

The soldiers were reported to military police by the soldiers' commander last summer.

The IDF is reviewing over 120 cases of alleged violations of humanitarian law in Gaza, of which so far 19 are currently being investigated further. Several of the cases concern incidents in which Israeli military operations caused multiple civilian fatalities, the LA Times said.

Countries from around the world have pledged humanitarian aid to Nepal after a massive earthquake killed at least 1,800 people on Saturday.

Measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, the earthquake levelled centuries-old monuments, collapsed buildings and caused avalanches on Mount Everest, as the death toll looks almost certain to rise.

A coalition of Islamist opposition militants have, which includes the Al Nusra Front, has captured a key Syrian town in the north of the country.

The opposition alliance, which also includes the Ahrar al-Sham movement and Jund al-Aqsa, united last month in an effort to overwhelm Syrian government forces and take the town of Jisr al-Shughour. The coalition, which does not include the Islamic State (IS), captured the town of Idlib last month.