The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Louis Moreno-Ocampo, has asked the National Transitional Council of Libya what steps the government is taking to investigate war crimes committed by all sides during the rebellion.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has announced a new push to prosecute the last remaining individuals guilty of committing war crimes during the second world war.

The head of the Nazi-hunting organisation's Jerusalem office, Efraim Zuroff, told a press conference in Berlin, the Center would offer a reward of 25,000 euros for information leading to successful prosecution of former Nazi's still at large.

The intiative has been given a boost by the conviction of John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian former camp guard.

Defected Syrian soldiers identified 74 of their senior officers and commanders responsible for the killing of protesters said Human Rights Watch in a report released on Thursday.

Sudan president, Omar al-Bashir will face justice one day asserted Luis Moreno Ocampo, the ICC's chief prosecutor, at a news conference following a briefing at the UN Security Council on Thursday.

Ocampo warned,

“International justice is here to stay. It will take time but the destiny is clear. He will face justice.”

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has symbolically raised the Palestinian flag above the UNESCO headquarters in Paris to the backdrop of the Palestinian national anthem, marking the first time the flag has flown above a UN agency.

Addressing the crowd at UNESCO, Abbas said,

The International Criminal Court referred Chad to the UN Security Council on Wednesday over its failure to arrest Sudan's President, Omar al-Bashir for a second time.

The referral comes 2 days after Malawi suffered a similar fate.

A statement by the ICC read,

A former member of the Rwandan government during the genocide in 1994 has had his life sentence reduced to 35 years on appeal.

Former Chief-of-Staff to the Defence Ministry, Theoneste Bagosora, was seen as one of the main organisers of the Tutsi genocide.

He was sentenced to life by the UN-backed ICTR (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda) in 2008.

Senior Pakistani officials have denied claims by a senior leader of the Pakistani Taliban that the government is engaged in talks with them.

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik dismissed the claims as ‘unfounded’.

Mr Malik said no prisoners have been released and there will not be any talks with militant groups until they lay down arms and denounce violence.

UN High Commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, once again urged the Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court for the state's brutal clamp down of anti-government protest.

The UN estimates over 5000 people have been killed.

Highlighting the systematic and widespread attack on civilians, Pillay asserted that the state's actions "constituted crimes against humanity".

Addressing a closed session of the UN Security Council on Monday, Pillay said,

Human Rights Watch has criticised western governments for ignoring Uzbekistan’s human rights abuses in order to preserve relations with the country.

Uzbekistan is a vital ally for NATO forces as it shares a border with Afghanistan and allows its country to be used as a transit point.

HRW accused Uzbekistan of failing to keep promises it made to stop torture.