A group of German parliamentarians and civil society activists have filed a lawsuit against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other government officials, accusing them of committing war crimes against the Kurdish population.

Lawyers for the group, Britta Eder and Petra Dervishaj said,

The leader of Plaid Cymru said that her party would be outlining moves to “put independence on the agenda now in order to safeguard Wales’s future”, in light of last week’s European Union referendum.

Commenting on action ahead for Wales in light of the fallout from Britain voting to exit the European Union, Leanne Wood said:

“Even though this situation was not of our making, Plaid Cymru believes that redesigning the current UK is the only option. A new union of independent nations working together for the common good”.

“The Welsh economy and our constitution face unprecedented challenges,” she added. “We must explore options that haven’t been properly debated until now.”

“It’s time to put independence on the agenda now in order to safeguard Wales’s future,” the party leader continued. “This is about us beginning a national conversation rather than calling for a referendum, though that is where it will end up.”

Fighters from the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran clashed with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, with both sides claiming to have inflicted casualties.

The fighting along Iran’s border with Iraq has raised ethnic tensions in the Kurdish region, an area that Kurdish separatists have been striving to make independent for decades, reports the New York Times.

A former Chilean army officer who now resides in the United States has been found liable for the murder of a folk singer and political activist in 1973, by a Florida jury.

Pedro Pablo Barrientos Nuñez, who now lives in Deltona, Florida, is alleged to have shot dead political activist Victor Jara, in September 1973 during a coup by Augusto Pinochet.

The jury awarded Mr Jara's family, who brought the civil action forward, $28m (£21m) in damages.

The lead campaigner of Britain’s EU exit campaign Boris Johnson, said that the UK would continue to seek have access to the European Union’s single market despite voting to leave the body.

In a statement made on Sunday, Mr Johnson said Britain could now forge a relationship based on free trade and partnership rather than a federal system, whilst also fostering free trade deals with growing economies outside the EU.