The International Criminal Court is seeking a 30-year jail term, for former Congolese war lord Thomas Lubanga, who was found guilty of recruiting and using child soldiers by the ICC in March this year.

Chief Prosecutor of the ICC, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said he demanded a "severe sentence".

"The prosecution will request a sentence in the name of each child recruited, in the name of the Ituri region,"

The leaders of Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia and Macedonia, boycotted the inauguration of Serbia's new president on Monday, Tomislav Nikolic, over his recent statement's denying the Srebrenica genocide.

Bosnia's presidency chairman Bakir Izetbegovic said,

"The prosecution hasn't proven my responsibility for the events in Srebrenica, nor that it was genocide."

The prime minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga, has called for EU and US help for a ‘final onslaught’ on the main stronghold of al-Shabab in Somalia.

Odinga said Kenyan forces would reach the port town of Kismayo by August and said funds and troops were needed to dislodge al-Shabab.

The EU’s anti-piracy mission has up to 10 war-ships patrolling off the coast of Somalia and has a mandate to attack Somali pirates on land.

Speaking to The Times on Sunday, the British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, reiterated that military invention in Syria could not be ruled out.

Comparing the situation to that of Bosnia in the 1990s, Hague commented that the international community's inaction during that conflict led to tens of thousands of deaths.

The head of the Zintan brigade militia has told the BBC, that four officials from the International Criminal Court have been jailed in the town of Zintan.

Ajami al-Ateri told the BBC that the team will be held for 45 days pending investigations.

The team was detained after visiting Col Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who is being held by the Zintan brigade.

They are accused of trying to hand Gaddafi documents while visiting him in a prison in the town.

“The United States joins Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan in expressing deep alarm by reports from inside Syria that the regime may be organizing another massacre”

The International Criminal Court, demanded the released of four members of staff, that it alleges were detained whilst on an official trip in Libya.

The four were said to have been meeting the imprisoned Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, and include at least one of the two lawyers appointed to represent Saif al-Islam at The Hague.

The ICC president, Sang-Hyun Song, said,

“We are very concerned about the safety of our staff in the absence of any contact with them,”

"Rwanda has made material changes in its laws and has indicated its capacity and willingness to prosecute cases referred by this Tribunal."