The head of the European Commission today gave a stern warning to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich to end the violence that has seen battles between protestors and police on the streets of Kiev, after the deaths of at least three people yesterday.

The authors of a newly released report on torture in Syria have compared the evidence they received to a “Nazi archive”, as talks between the Syrian opposition and the government are set to begin in Geneva.

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, former lead prosecutor of former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic, said,

A newly released report by three eminent lawyers has documented new evidence that the Syrian state has been “systematically killing” approximately 11,000 prisoners.

The 31-page report, commissioned by Qatar who have been supportive of the Syrian opposition, examines thousands of images of dead prisoners which have been smuggled out of the country.

The South Sudanese government has accused the UN peacekeeping mission in the country of hiding rebels and their arms at their camps, which are giving shelter to over 70,000 civilians.

The country’s president, Salva Kiir has hit out at the UN, saying it acted like a “parallel government” in South Sudan.

A United Nations official warned that the “seeds of genocide” were present in the Central African Republic, as the European Union looks set to deploy troops to the crisis hit region.

The invitation for Iran to participate in talks on the Syrian conflict has been withdrawn by the UN after the Syrian opposition said it would withdraw from the conference in protest.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has called for reconciliation between militant groups opposed to President Bashar al-Assad, who have been fighting each other for control, claiming over 1,000 lives.

An audio message by ISIS leade Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said that the opposition groups should focus on fighting the Syrian regime.

Over 10,000 Buddhist monks gathered at a conference in Burma, passing a motion that will restrict marriage between Buddhist women and men of different faiths.

The motion will be submitted to Burma’s parliament in the hope that it will become law, alongside a motion that will restrict the right of Burma’s Rohingya Muslims to vote.

Israel’s Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, summoned a group of European ambassadors today, to complain about what he described as a ‘one-sided approach’ to Israel’s conflict with Palestine.

The California State Assembly Education Committee has unanimously adopted a bill to include education on the Armenian genocide into the state curriculum.