An attack by Colombia’s Farc militants has left three police officers dead and hundreds of thousands of Colombians without power.

President Juan Manuel Santos ordered bombing raids on rebel positions, which were halted due to ongoing negotiations, aimed at ending the decades-long conflict.

The southern region of Caqueta, home to almost 500,000 people, was plunged into darkness after the militants brought down an electric pylon.

The former prime minister of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region hailed the gains made by the Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the Turkish elections as “a milestone for Kurdish people”.

The Kurdish party has for the first time won enough votes to enter the Turkish parliament and is being hailed as a watershed moment in Turkish politics.

Barham Salih, the former premier of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, said “not long ago, Kurds were officially nonexistent, at best identified as mountain Turks”. “After decades of denial and persecution, the time for the Kurds has arrived,” he added.

The victory comes as HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtas accusedthe government of having links to the violence that erupted across Kurdish regions this week.

Relations have remained strained with the Turkish government, with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accusing Western nations of backing the Kurdish “terrorists”, whilst bombing Turkmen and Arabs in Syria.

"The West, which has shot Arabs and Turkmens, is unfortunately placing the PYD (the political wing of the YPG) and PKK in lieu of them," said Mr Erdogan in a speech.

A delegation from the prosecutor’s office of the International Criminal Court  is due to arrive in Israel at the end of the month as part of a preliminary investigation into whether war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed in occupied Palestinian territories.

An independent attorney acting as an advisor to the Palestinian Authority told Harretz that the visit was a good sign that showed the ICC was

FARC militants in Colombia attacked energy pylons in the southern province amidst stalling peace talks.

The militant group pulled out of a ceasefire with the government three weeks ago, after Colombian air strikes killed a senior FARC negotiator.

Talks, based on a five point agenda, between the two parties have been taking place in Cuba for the last 30 months.

Indian police have shot and killed 12 people, including three children, at a security checkpoint in the jungles of Jharkand.

The security forces opened fire on a vehicle approaching a checkpoint, which was established after the police received a tip-off that CPI (Maoist) rebels were planning to extort money from local miners.

Police said the dead wore the olive green uniforms of the Maoist rebels and were armed.

“There were three children, aged 14-15 years, among those killed in the encounter,” Director General of Police Jharkhand, DK Pandey said. “They are poisoning innocent minds.”

The Turkish government announced it was recalling its ambassador to Brazil following a decision by the Brazilian senate to recognise the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire a century ago as genocide.

Turkey stated that their ambassador had been recalled for consultations and also said it had summoned Brazil’s ambassador to Ankara over the senate decision.

The UK will draft a UN Security Council resolution to mark next month’s 20^th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, reports Reuters.

The British Ambassador to Bosnia, commenting on the resolution on Tuesday, said,