Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has travelled to the Hague to defend her regime over the charges of alleged genocide against its Rohingya Muslim population.

Campaigners have criticised a much anticipated boxing match set to take place in Saudi Arabia’s newly built Diriyah stadium on Saturday, accusing it of “sportswashing” the country’s human rights record.

On Saturday, Anthony Joshua will take on Andy Ruiz Jr, in what the BBC Sports Editor Dan Roan termed “one of the most controversial sporting contests in recent times”.

 At least 208 people have been killed in Iran, as security forces have cracked down on protests that have swept across the country.

Iranian state television admitted that deaths had occurred during the unrest, but claimed those killed were "armed thugs and rioters” or security personnel. Video footage of the protests, however, show uniformed members of Iran’s security forces, firing at unarmed protestors.

A court case against a former British, known as Soldier F, who has been accused of murder and attempted murder during Bloody Sunday has been delayed until New Year, as courts request to hear from 25 witnesses.  

Soldier F is charged with the murder of 22-year old James Wray and 27-year old William McKinney on Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972.

The family of Daphne Caruana Galizia have urged Malta’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat to be investigated over a possible role in the journalist’s death in 2017. 

Muscat announced on Sunday that he will resign in January, after investigators had allegedly found connections between his administration and those who arranged for the killing to happen – which he has dismissed. However, the family of Caruana Galizia and protestors have called for his immediate resignation. 

Just a weeks after the United States declared that Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank would not be an infringement of international law, Israel’s defence minister, Naftali Bennett, announced a plan to “double the number of Jewish residents” in Hebron. 

Thousands of people have staged protests and called for capital punishment to be deployed against those responsible for the murder of a 27-year-old woman in Hyderabad last week.

Desi Bouterse, Suriname’s President has been sentenced to 20 years for ordering the exception of 15 political prisoners in 1982.

Those executed included lawyers, union leaders and journalists who fleeing from imprisonment in Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname.