The Turkish government on Thursday warned the United States to end its support for the YPG unit as Turkish troops launched an attack on Kurdish forces in Syria. 

The spokesperson for the Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan warned that continued support would lead to confrontation with Turkey, with anyone supporting the YPG becoming a potential target. Turkey condemned the YPG as a part of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which it deems a terrorist organisation. 

The US president Donald Trump on Thursday warned Palestinians that the US could pull aid if, he said, they did not 'negotiate peace' with Israel. 

Defying warnings from Madrid, Catalonia's parliament has nominated the former Catalan leader, Carles Puigdemont to serve again as its leader. 

Mr Puigdemont, who was sacked by Spain following the region's referendum for independence and Catanonia's unilateral declaration of independence, has been living in Belgium since he fled in October. His colleagues and fellow pro-independence supporters were arrested and charged with sedition. 

The United States has filed a denaturalisation complaint against a 51 year old Bosnian man who is accused of committing extrajudicial killings whilst he was a member of a paramilitary group in the former Yugoslavia int he 1990s. 

The United States has warned Kosovo of 'harsh consequences' if the the country's parliament votes to halt the war crimes court examining crimes committed by ethnic Albanians against Serbs during the 1998 war, Reuters reports. 

such a move was previously stopped following US and EU pressure. However, since then, a parliamentary committee has been looking into establishing a vote to revoke legislation on setting up a war crimes court. 

Following emergency meetings the African Union missions to the US and the United Nations having issued statements expressing their outrage at the US president, Donald Trump describing African and Central American nations as "shitholes countries", and demanded an apology and retraction. 

The African Group of Ambassadors to the UN said it was "extremely appalled at, and strongly condemns the outrageous, racist and xenophobic remarks". 

Myanmar’s military has admitted for the first time that it has been involved in the killing of Rohingya Muslims, in a statement released earlier today.

A statement from the military commander-in-chief said that the four soldiers had killed 10  "Bengali terrorists" in Inn Din village near Maungdaw.

A court in Sarajevo has indicted 14 Bosnian Muslim men accused of committing crimes against Bosnian Serb civilians during the conflict in the region.

The Sarajevo state prosecutor’s office said the men are accused of war crimes “including murder of several dozens Serb civilians, both men and women of different age, torture, robbery and persecution of nearly the whole Serb population from the Konjic area”.

Amnesty International has hailed the release of political prisoners in Ethiopia as a move that “could signal new chapter for human rights” last week.

Fisseha Tekle, Ethiopia Researcher at Amnesty International said the announcement by Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn “could signal the end of an era of bloody repression in Ethiopia”.

United Nations Special Rapporteurs have warned of “massive” human rights abuses that are taking place in Mindanao in the Philippines, where the military is currently carrying out operations.

UN special rapporteurs on the rights of indigenous peoples and internally displaced people, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz and Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, said the Muslim population on the island is "suffering massive abuses of their human rights, some of which are potentially irreversible".

The UN Secretary General, António Guterres on Friday announced the UN would commence an investigation into the killing of 15 peacekeepers in Congo in December. 

The peacekeepers, who were from Tanzania, were killed during an attack on a base in North Kiru province of Congo. 

The investigate team will include two military officers from Tanzania. 

Myanmar’s government has spoken out against sanctions placed on a general accused of leading the ethnic cleasning campaign of the Rohingya in the Rakhine state.

“This targeted sanction is based on unreliable accusations without evidence, as we have repeatedly said, so we feel sad for that,” Zaw Htay, a spokesman for Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, told Reuters.

British Prime Minister Theresa May pledged that she would “never allow” any compromise on the self-determination of the Falkland Islanders, in a Christmas radio message last week.

“I want you to know that I will never allow anyone to compromise your right to self-determination – a right you freely expressed in the 2013 referendum; and a legacy for which so many paid the ultimate price,” she said in the message that was relayed out to the islands.

Human Rights Watch has called for the prosecution of Yazidi fighters over their involvement in executing 52 civilians as part of an alleged revenge attack earlier this year.