The Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has landed in Taiwan, after leaving China for the US last year.

Chen is thought to be planning to meet opposition politicians to discuss human rights. China is likely to be angered by the trip to the island, over which China claims sovereignty.

According to Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the country's former military ruler will be charged for treason by the newly installed government.

Speaking to Parliament on Monday, Sharif said Musharraf would have to answer for his acts during his years in power, although the government has not yet pressed formal charges.

Lebanon has seen its worst fighting since the start of the Syrian civil war with over a dozen soldiers killed on Monday.

Government troops fought armed Sunni Muslim militiamen in the southern city of Sidon, causing the death of at least 16 soldiers and injuring dozens more.

Spillovers from neighbouring Syria have sparked fears of the re-ignition of sectarian violence in Lebanon.

The Egyptian Army has issued a warning ahead of planned mass-protests against President Mohammed Morsi.

Army head General Abdel-Fatteh al-Sisi said the armed forces would "not remain silent as the country slides into uncontrollable conflict".

"There is a state of division in the society, and the continuation of it is a danger to the Egyptian state.

The head prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatour Bensouda, believes that Palestine qualifies to join the ICC after the UN general Assembly voted to admit the country as a non-member state in November.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has expressed concerns over the planned peace talks with the Afghan Taliban, after a row over the group's office in Doha.

Mr Kerry told reporters in Doha: "We need to see if we can get back on track." adding that he was sunsure whether this was possible.

"We are waiting to find out whether the Taliban will respond," Kerry said.

A UN commission of inquiry on rights violations in Syria has said that increasing the weapons flow to Syria will cause an increase in war crimes.

Paulo Pinheiro who chairs the commission said:

"States who provide arms have responsibilities in terms of the eventual use of those arms to commit ... war crimes or crimes against humanity,"

The British FCO minister Alistair Burt, condemned the violence against Arab Israeli residents by Jewish settlers earlier this week.

Burt said:

An independent Unite Nations expert expressed concerns about the specific situation across various states of Sudan, which have been littered with on-going clashes and hostilities.

Eight alleged members of an al-Qaeda linked network have been arrested in the Spanish territory of Ceuta.

Those detained, all Spanish citizens, are suspected to have been recruiting individuals to fight in Syria and other countries.

The arrests were made in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa.

A senior Taliban spokesperson has said they are willing to swap a captive US soldier held since 2009 for 5 senior militants held at Guantanamo Bay.

In an exclusive telephone interview with the Associated Press from the Taliban office in Qatar, spokesman Shaheen Suhail said that army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl "is, as far as I know, in good condition".

The Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Rami Hamdullah, gave in his resignation today, after only two weeks.