Amnesty International has urged the North Korean government to close down two facilities it says are being used as political prisoner camps, saying torture and executions are a regular occurrence.

The group’s North Korea researcher Rajiv Narayan, said the camps were growing.

Egyptian police fired tear gas at demonstrators on Friday, as protests continued in Cairo.

The protesters, who are in support of the ousted Mr Mursi, chanted "Dwon, down with military rule" and have been staging protests almost everyday in locations through out Egypt.

Counter protests have also been taking place, organised by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, with large marches taking place following Friday prayers.

The United Nations Security Council has unanimously voted to authorise military intervention in the Central African Republic by France and troops from the African Union.

The move comes as fighting spread across the country, between Christian militias and Seleka rebels, who are mostly Muslim.

There are fears of increased attacks on Muslims, who make up 15% of the country’s population. France has warned of an impending genocide, while lobbying for decisive international action, along with other western nations.

Investigators have found a mass grave containing 21 bodies, while looking for missing soldiers who were loyal to former president Amadou Toumani Toure, known as red berets.

At least 23 soldiers went missing after President Toure was toppled in a coup in March 2012.

A Malian justice ministry official told AFP: "We have found 21 bodies, probably of red beret soldiers, in a mass grave in Diago. The bodies were exhumed."

A no-confidence motion brought by the main Ukrainian opposition has been defeated by parliament. The motion would have put more pressure on the government to resign, over the direction the country is taking in its foreign relations.

Ukraine has seen over 100,000 people protest against a government decision not to sign an association deal with the European Union. Clashes between police and protestors occurred over the weekend, with Prime Minister Mykola Azarov apologising for the violence meted out by security forces.

'Our objective is to create a consistent set of guidelines that are used by first responders to ensure that survivors of these attacks receive consistent and sympathetic responses but also that information that is collected from them (physical and testimony) is taken and stored in a way that assists future prosecutions or other justice mechanisms.