UN investigators said on Monday that they had identified Syrian leaders as suspected war criminals, who should face the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The UN Security Council was urged by the investigators to take urgent action to hold people accountable for violatons committed by both sides, including murder and torture, in the civil war.

A Guinea court has charged a governor of the capital city with charges of alleged torture of civilians during the country's 2010 Presidential campaign.

The move has been hailed by human rights advocates as a significant step to battling impunity in the country.

Conakry governor Sekou Resco Camara stands accused of rounding up youths with security forces during the 2010 Presidential campaign, before detaining and torturing them.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Syrians will be allowed to cross the ceasefire line in the occupied Golan Heights, in "exceptional" cases, after 7 injured Syrians were taken for hospital treatment by Israeli soldiers.

"We will continue to watch over the border and prevent anyone from crossing it and entering Israel except in a few isolated and exceptional circumstances - each of which will be weighed on its own merit," Mr Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting, according to the BBC.

Seven foreign workers have been kidnapped in a raid on a compound in northern Nigeria.

It has been reported that a group of men armed with guns and explosives attacked the camp of a Lebanese construction company, snatching a British man along with Greek, Italian and Lebanese co-workers.

The gunmen first shot and killed a guard at the camp, which is located in Jama'are, a rural town in the Bauchi state.

The British foreign office has called on Chad to arrest the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and hand him over to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted by the international criminal court for five counts of crimes against humanity, is due to attend a regional summit in Chad.

Chad is one of the nations that signed up to the ICC's treaty, therefore holding it legally responsible to implement the arrest warrant placed on Bashir.

The European Union has called on Israel to respect international humanitarian law on the treatment of prisoners, after widespread rioting in the West Bank over the treatment of hunger striking Palestinian prisoners.

European Union spokesperson Catherine Ashton stated,

Yemen’s former president and vice-president have been warned by the UN Security Council that they will face sanctions if they do not stop interfering in the Yemen’s democratic reforms.

Ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his deputy Ali Salim al-Beidh are accused of meddling in the country’s affairs and the Council also expressed concern about reports that weapons and money were being smuggled into Yemen.

Israeli troops clashed with Palestinian protesters on Friday, outside an Israeli prison in the occupied West Bank.

OVer 300 protesters who had gathered by the Ofer prison to show their support for Palestinians detained inside threw stones at the Israeli troops who used stun grenades, tear gas and fired rubber bullets into the crowd to break up the protest.

A spokesperson for the Israeli military said:

"The soldiers, feeling immediate danger, fired in the air," 

A "viable" pipe bomb was found by Forth River Primary school in Belfast on Friday.

Police said that the device was found by a member of the public in Forth River Road at approximately 3pm. The spokesperson for the Police Service of Northern Ireland said:

“Army technical experts attended and confirmed it to be a viable pipe bomb-type device.”

Last month, a similar device was found at a community building by Shore Road.