Uo to 2000 troops from the Libyan army will be trained by Britain, announced Foreign Secretary William Hague, earlier today.

Hague said the British army would provide a 10-week training course in basic infantry skills and leadership at Bassingbourn Barracks in Cambridgeshire.

"The government firmly believes that a stable, open and democratic Libya contributing to wider regional stability and security is in the UK's interest." Hague said.

Congo’s M23 rebels have called for a cease fire before continuing the peace negotiations with the government delegation, reported the Associated Press.

Russia’s UN ambassador has said they have evidence to show that it is likely that Syrian rebels, fighting the Syrian government, used missiles with sarin gas.

Vitaly Churkin said that the results came from an independent investigation as requested by Damascus.

"The results of the analysis clearly indicate that the ordnance used in Khan al-Assal was not industrially manufactured and was filled with sarin.

The Pakistani commission set up to probe the raid and efforts to capture Osama bin Laden has condemned the US decision to unilaterally launch its operation without seeking permission from Islamabad.

The Abottabad Commission's report called the US action the 'greatest humiliation' Pakistan had suffered since the seccession of Bangladesh in 1971.

The report stated that the American raid demonstrated the US's "contemptuous disregard of Pakistan's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity in the arrogant certainty of … unmatched military might".

A series of blasts went off at the holy Buddhist site of Bodh Gaya in Bihar, India, on Sunday morning. The site includes the Mahabodhi temple and the Bodhi tree, which Buddhists believe is where Buddha attained enlightenment. Neither suffered any damage.

The Times of India cited police officials as saying four blasts went off in total - three at the Karmapa monastery, and one near the statue of the Buddha. Three other live bombs were recovered and defused.

On Monday, India's Home Minister, Sushilkumar Shinde, a total of 13 bombs were planted inside the temple complex.

The new interim leader of Egypt, Adly Mansour, has outlined plans for polls, as clashes continued in the country.

Mansour, who was appointed by the army after last week’s coup against Mohammed Morsi, said a panel to amend the most recent constitution would be formed within 15 days, and those changes would be put to a referendum, leading to elections by 2014.

51 people died in clashes between Morsi’s supporters and the army in Cairo.

The head of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operation (DPKO) Hervé Ladsous, reiterated the UN's support in developing south Sudan into a modern state, whilst visiting Bor on Sunday. 

Confirming that the UN mandate in South Sudan would be renewed and that the peace keeping mission would continue, Ladsous said:

"We are very supportive to make the country a modern state with functioning institutions with full respect for human rights. This is the fundamental objective of the United Nations”

Forty-two were killed on Saturday after gunmen, thought to be Boko Haram rebels, stormed a secondary school in Nigeria, reports AFP.

According to one of the members of staff at the local hospital, eye witnesses who had managed to escape said the gunmen rounded up staff and students into a dormitory before throwing explosives inside and setting the place on fire.

The Malian government has lifted the state of emergency, imposed on the country in January, ahead of presidential elections.

As part of a peace deal with Tuareg rebels, Malian troops re-entered the town of Kidal, clearing the way for the elections.

The elections at the end of the month will be the first since an army coup in 2012, which saw Tuareg rebels ally with Islamist groups to capture the north of the country.

The rebels later left the alliance and supported French efforts to recapture the north.

Nicaragua, Venezuela and Bolivia have said that they could offer US whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum.
Snowden had sent asylum applications to 21 countries, most of which rejected him.

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said he had decided to give him asylum.