The two US marines who were filmed urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters have been recommended for a trial by court martial, according to the Pentagon.

Staff sergeants Joseph Chamblin and Edward Deptola will face the court martial, a month after three of their colleagues were given administrative punishments for their role in the incident.

Afghan officials praised the action taken by the US.

German prosecutors have launched a war crimes investigation into an 87-year-old former SS guard who now lives in the United States, after years of failed American efforts to deport him and strip him of his US citizenship.

Johann "Hans" Breyer is accused of being a guard at the infamous Auschiwtz camp, with the German office that investigates Nazi war crimes urging prosecutors to charge him with accessory to murder and extradite him to Germany where he may face trial for involvement in the death of at least 344,000 Jews.

The Nigerian military said 35 members of Boko Haram were killed and several arrested during overnight violence in Damaturu.

In a statement, the Joint Task Force spokesperson Eli Lazarus said,

"The operation which lasted throughout Sunday night and continued into the early hours of Monday recorded fierce exchanges of fire between Joint Task Force (JTF) troops and the terrorists,"

A group of citizen journalists have been jailed for up to twelve years in Vietnam for blogging about human rights abuses, corruption and foreign policy.

Nguyen Van Hai, Ta Phong Tan and Phan Thanh Hai, founding members of the ‘Free Journalists’ Club’ were found guilty of spreading “propaganda against the state”, and were handed sentences ranging from four to twelve years in jail.

The mother of Ms Tan died in late July after self-immolating in protest against her daughter’s arrest.

The Israeli government has ruled out any changes to the 1979 peace treaty with Egypt.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Egyptians "shouldn't try to delude themselves or delude others," whilst talking to Israel Radio.

Pressure has been growing on the Egyptian government recently to lift restrictions on the number of troops on the Sinai Peninsula after an increase in violence.

The number of troops was restricted by the treaty in return for a complete Israeli withdrawal from the peninsula.

A former Guatemalan army commander accused of war crimes has been extradited from Canada to the United States to face immigration charges.

54-year-old Jorge Sosa is accused of leading a counter-insurgency force of the Guatemalan military in 1982 known as the “Kabiles”. He is alleged to have overseen a massacre of over 200 civilians whilst leading a patrol in 1982, with member of the patrol also raping women and girls before killing them.

The interim Libyan leader Mohammad al-Magarief has vowed to disband all ‘illegitimate’ militias in the country, after the killing of the US ambassador Christopher Stevens.

In a press conference on Saturday, Magarief said that all militias which are not under government authority would be disbanded.

"[We want to] dissolve all militias and military camps which are not under the control of the state," he said.

Hardline Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is expected to retain his leadership despite the opposition’s call for voters to boycott parliamentary elections.

The two main opposition parties urged voters not to participate in, what they see as, a sham exercise by the Lukashenko leadership to retain power.

Western monitoring agencies have not judged an election in Lukashenko’s Belarus as ‘free and fair’ for 18 years.

As protests against an anti-Islam film continue around the world, a Pakistani minister has offered a reward to anyone that kills the maker of ‘Innocence of Muslims’.

Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told a news conference on Saturday:

"I announce today that this blasphemer, this sinner who has spoken nonsense about the holy Prophet, anyone who murders him, I will reward him with $100,000.”

Belarus has denied accusations from the United States that they were attempting to supply weapons to Syria, after the US Treasury imposed sanctions on   state-owned Belarusian company earlier this week.

The state-owned arms company Belvneshpromservice was accused by the US Treasury of supplying fuses for bombs used by the Syrian military via Syria’s Army Supply Bureau and had sanctions placed on it earlier this week.