The International Criminal Court has sworn in the new chief prosecutor, Gambian lawyer Fatou Bensouda earlier this week, who vowed to seek justice for victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
51-year old Bensouda becomes not only the first woman, but also the first African to lead the ICC, at a time when all 15 cases present at the court are African.
The UN observer mission to Syria has been suspended due to increasing violence.
The head of the mission, General Robert Mood, said on Friday that the observers would stay in their current locations and cease all monitoring activities.
Nine Bahraini doctors were sentenced for upto five years on Friday, for supporting anti-government protests in the country last year.
Formally accused of 'conspiring to overthrow the Bahraini monarchy', prosecutors charged that the doctors had spilt blood over patients to exaggerate injuries, and used a hospital and ambulances to aid the armed rebellion.
Tunisia's former leader, Ben Ali, was sentenced last night in absentia to life imprisonment for presiding over the crack-down against anti-government protesters.
Ben Ali, who currently lives in exile in Saudi Arabia, was sentenced along side Tunisia's former Interior Minister, Rafik Belhaj Kacem and other members of his government.
A British MP has accused China of employing “bully-boy tactics” after reports that the country would pull its athletes out of an Olympic camp in the city of Leeds, following a visit there by the Dalai Lama.
Chinese officials allegedly called for the cancellation of business convention due to take place on Friday, after it was revealed that the Tibetan leader would be addressing the event.
The United States has charged Russia with continuing to supply weapons to the Syrian government which have been used in the country’s ongoing conflict, with more weapons set to be delivered.
The Falklands Islands’ government has announced it will hold a referendum in 2013, to settle once and for all questions regarding its sovereignty.
The announcement comes a day before the 30th anniversary since the end of Argentine occupation of the British territory.
The International Criminal Court is seeking a 30-year jail term, for former Congolese war lord Thomas Lubanga, who was found guilty of recruiting and using child soldiers by the ICC in March this year.
Chief Prosecutor of the ICC, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said he demanded a "severe sentence".
The leaders of Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia and Macedonia, boycotted the inauguration of Serbia's new president on Monday, Tomislav Nikolic, over his recent statement's denying the Srebrenica genocide.
