The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) called on the Nepalese government to uphold a Supreme Court decision rejecting the possibility of amnesty for suspected perpetrators of war crimes and other human rights abuses.

“Nepal’s Supreme Court has once again firmly reasserted the right of the victims of human rights violations to seek justice,” said Sam Zarifi, ICJ’s Asia Director. “This bold and principled decision should finally end the cynical attempts by politicians from all Nepal’s major parties, as well as the military, to legislate impunity and shield themselves from accountability.”

The decision on Thursday by Nepal’s top court said two bodies set up to investigate abuses committed during the country’s civil conflict could not grant amnesty, overturning the power to do so after a mass petition by 234 victims.

The Venezuelan government announced it will limit the number of US diplomats in the country.

President Nicolas Maduro said he wants a review and reduction of diplomatic staff and said some US politicians would be banned from entering Venezuela.

The president said he was forced to take these measures as the US government was meddling in the country and had 100 employees working in Venezuela, while only 17 Venezuelan officials were working in the US.

The US is seeking to deport at least 150 Bosnians suspected of commiting war crimes and "ethnic cleansing" during the Yugoslavian war, the New York Times reported.

Immigration officials said they have identified 300 immigrants who are believed to have concealed involvement in war times atrocities.

Moves have been made to identify suspects, including an appeal broadcast to Bosnians around the world in February, urging witnesses to come forward with any information about war crimes.

Bosnians should be confident that “justice can be served in the United States despite the fact that many years have gone by and that the conduct occurred overseas, far away,” Kathleen O’Connor, a human rights prosecutor at the Justice Department, said in a message translated into Bosnian on the government-financed Voice of America network.

The jailed leader of Turkey’s main Kurdish militant group, Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), urged militants to end a 30 year armed struggle to seek a “democratic solution.”

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the PKK, speaking on national Kurdish TV, said,

“We are in the process of bringing an end to the 30 year of conflict, in the form of a perpetual peace, and our main goal is to reach a democratic solution.”

“I am calling on the PKK to convene an extraordinary congress in the spring months, to make the strategic historical decision about ending the armed struggle based on mutually agreed principles.”

A Nepalese army officer based in Britain is said to have ordered the torture of two suspected rebels during Nepal's civil war, according to evidence heard by the Old Bailey.

Lt Col Kumar Lama stands accused of ordering the torture of Janak Raut and Karam Hussain, who were believed to be Maoist rebels, but refutes the charges.

The prosecution is being brought in the UK due to an obligation under the United Nations Convention Against Torture.

Kurdish forces captured the strategic town of Tel Hamis in North-East Syria in their latest powerful offensive, reports Reuters.

The UK based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict confirmed the Kurdish Peshmerga forces’ announcement that the town had been captured on Friday.

The Observatory said that Kurdish forces had killed at least 175 members and commanders of the Islamic State militants, in an offensive that began last weekend.

China's state-owned banks loaned $22bn to countries in Latin America in 2014, according to figures released by US think-tank Inter-American Dialogue.

The money helped struggling economies which have been hit hard by a fall in prices for oil, minerals and other commodities they export.

China loaned $8.6bn to Brazil, $7bn to Argentina, $5.7bn to Venezuela and $821mn to Ecuador last year.