Tens of thousands of protesters in Hong-Kong joined a pro-democracy march through the city Tuesday, a day after the city voted in a referendum for democratic reform, reports The Guardian.

Organisers are expecting 500,000 people to take part in the protest with many groups planning to planning to occupy parts through the night until Wednesday morning.

A public referendum held in Hong Kong for democratic reform, registered over 800,000 votes today, reports AlJazeera.

The referendum, organised by ‘Occupy Central’ called for electoral reform in China, received a surge in participants after the Chinese central government released a controversial statement that said  the central government would always have power over the workings of Hong Kong.

Three Israeli teenagers who went missing earlier this month were found dead in the West Bank today, reports the BBC.

Israel has accused Hamas of being responsible for the disappearance of the three teenagers, a claim that Hamas has denied.

The Israeli military has set up blockades and closed down areas within a few kilometres of where the Israeli bodies were found.

Israeli President Shimon Peres, commenting on the deaths, said,

South Africa will re-launch a claims process that will allow families that were removed from their land under apartheid rule to apply for compensation announced the presidency on Monday.

“The Act now provides for the re-opening of the lodgement of land claims by those who missed the 31 December 1998 deadline,” a presidency statement said.

The law builds on a process that previously saw the examination for 80.000 requests for compensation which expired before all those that were driven from their land could make a claim, reports Agence France Presse.

North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles ahead of a state visit by the Chinese President Xi Jinping to South Korea, reports Reuters. 

North Korea said it was "part of its routine military exercise". The firing of such missiles by isolated countries as weapons testing is banned by the UN.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Sunday, showed support for Kurdish independence amidst worsening sectarian violence in Iraq, reports the Associated Press.

Highlighting the uncontrollable violence in Iraq, Binyamin Netanyahu called for the formation of an independent Kurdistan that could form an alliance with moderate forces across the region to combat destabilising militants in Iraq.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has stated that Serbia will never recognise Kosovo’s independence at a speech commemorating the historic Battle of Kosovo.

Nikolic reportedly went on to tell the crowd that “Serbia will continue fighting for its holy land”, before adding,

Unprecedented deployment of Kurdish Peshmerga forces to combat advancing ISIS militants in regions vacated by Iraqi forces is winning support of vulnerable minorities, reports Agence France Presse.