The prime minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga, has called for EU and US help for a ‘final onslaught’ on the main stronghold of al-Shabab in Somalia.

Odinga said Kenyan forces would reach the port town of Kismayo by August and said funds and troops were needed to dislodge al-Shabab.

Speaking to The Times on Sunday, the British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, reiterated that military invention in Syria could not be ruled out.

The head of the Zintan brigade militia has told the BBC, that four officials from the International Criminal Court have been jailed in the town of Zintan.

Ajami al-Ateri told the BBC that the team will be held for 45 days pending investigations.

The team was detained after visiting Col Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who is being held by the Zintan brigade.

The United States has expressed fears that Syria’s Assad regime is planning fresh massacres in the country and warned the Syrian President against doing so, reminding them of the case of Bosnia.

Speaking in the daily press briefing, State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland said,

The International Criminal Court, demanded the released of four members of staff, that it alleges were detained whilst on an official trip in Libya.

The four were said to have been meeting the imprisoned Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, and include at least one of the two lawyers appointed to represent Saif al-Islam at The Hague.

The ICC president, Sang-Hyun Song, said,

The newly elected leader of the Syrian National Council has called upon the international community to act decisively to prevent further killings in Syria, as reports of shelling in Homs emerged.

Kurdish activist Abdulbaset Sieda, who now leads the opposition umbrella organisation, stated in an Istanbul press conference,

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has transferred the case of genocide suspect Bernard Munyagishari over to Rwandan authorities, marking only the fifth case in history that it has referred on.

A three-judge UN tribunal panel decided to transfer Munyagishari's case after ruling,

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The United States has condemned Serbian president Tomislav Nikolic’s statement denying genocide in Srebrenica, labelling it “counterproductive”.

US State Department spokesperson Mark Toner, responded to the newly sworn in Serbian president’s comments, stating,

An investigating judge for the UN genocide tribunal in Cambodia has named four senior government officials as persons of interest, according to confidential documents obtained by The Age.

Malawi has decided not to host the African Union (AU) summit in July, after disputes over the attendance of Sudan’s president, Omar Al-Bashir.

Omar Al-Bashir has been indicted for war crimes in Darfur by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Incidentally, Sudan’s president has visited several African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries despite the ICC arrest warrants for charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, said that the UN observers in Syria have frequently been targeted by heavy weapons, armour-piercing ammunition and surveillance drones, in an address to the UN General Assembly.

Ban Ki Moon said,

Serbia's new president plans to see clarification from the EU on what pre-requisites exist for membership, particularly regarding the recognition of Kosovo's independence.

Speaking to a state news agency on Friday, Tomislav Nikolic, said of his upcoming visit to Brussels:

US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, calls for the departure of Assad after UN monitors are blocked from verifying the Hama massacre.

The UN Secretary, General Ban Ki-Moon, told a General Assembly session today, that monitors trying to access the site of an alleged massacre were shot at by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.