Uo to 2000 troops from the Libyan army will be trained by Britain, announced Foreign Secretary William Hague, earlier today.

Hague said the British army would provide a 10-week training course in basic infantry skills and leadership at Bassingbourn Barracks in Cambridgeshire.

Congo’s M23 rebels have called for a cease fire before continuing the peace negotiations with the government delegation, reported the Associated Press.

Russia’s UN ambassador has said they have evidence to show that it is likely that Syrian rebels, fighting the Syrian government, used missiles with sarin gas.

Vitaly Churkin said that the results came from an independent investigation as requested by Damascus.

A series of blasts went off at the holy Buddhist site of Bodh Gaya in Bihar, India, on Sunday morning. The site includes the Mahabodhi temple and the Bodhi tree, which Buddhists believe is where Buddha attained enlightenment. Neither suffered any damage.

The new interim leader of Egypt, Adly Mansour, has outlined plans for polls, as clashes continued in the country.

Mansour, who was appointed by the army after last week’s coup against Mohammed Morsi, said a panel to amend the most recent constitution would be formed within 15 days, and those changes would be put to a referendum, leading to elections by 2014.

Confirming that the UN mandate in South Sudan would be renewed and that the peace keeping mission would continue, Ladsous said:

Forty-two were killed on Saturday after gunmen, thought to be Boko Haram rebels, stormed a secondary school in Nigeria, reports AFP.

According to one of the members of staff at the local hospital, eye witnesses who had managed to escape said the gunmen rounded up staff and students into a dormitory before throwing explosives inside and setting the place on fire.

The Malian government has lifted the state of emergency, imposed on the country in January, ahead of presidential elections.

As part of a peace deal with Tuareg rebels, Malian troops re-entered the town of Kidal, clearing the way for the elections.

Nicaragua, Venezuela and Bolivia have said that they could offer US whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum.
Snowden had sent asylum applications to 21 countries, most of which rejected him.

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said he had decided to give him asylum.

South Sudan has accused Sudan of carrying out attacks in the disputed border areas involving two attacks with planes and land forces, reports Reuters.

Mali’s army has re-entered the rebel-held town of Kidal as part of efforts to improve security before the presidential election, officials have said.

A leaked UN report by a group of UN experts has said that Rwanda is only providing limited support to Congo’s M23 rebels and Uganda has completely ceased all support.

The report, leaked by Inner City Press, details findings of the UN group from its trips in early 2013.