Any final nuclear deal with Iran must include commitment form Tehran to recognise Israel’s right to exist, said the Israeli prime minister on Friday.

In a statement released after a preliminary international agreement was reached on Iran’s nuclear programme, Banjamin Netanyahu, said,

Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, on Friday,  threatened to boycott upcoming elections if the current country constitution remained unchanged. 

Speaking to Reuters, Ms Suu Kyi said that US praise for Myanmar’s new semi-civilian government, which took power in 2011, had made it “complacent” and hindering delivering true reform.

Responding on whether her part would run in elections without a constitutional change, Ms Suu Kyi, said,

Armed gunmen attacked military checkpoints on the Sinai peninsula, leaving 15 Egyptian soliers and two civilians dead.

The checkpoints, located near the border with Gaza in the town of Sheikh Zuweid, were attacked on Thursday by militants suspected to be part of Sinai Province, a group which last year pledged allegiance to Islamic State.

Dozens of soldiers, militants and civilians have been killed already this year in northern Sinai.

The North Korean government has test-fired four short-range missiles, according to South Korean military officials.

The missiles were fired into the sea from Dongchang-ri, on the west coast of the country, a statement by the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

Pyongyang regularly conducts missile tests when the south and the US are engaged in military drills, as they are currently.

A JCS spokesman said Friday's test "appeared to have been supervised by Kim Jong-Un", AFP reports.

Officials from the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) said that Islamic State militants had entered the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, Yarmouk, which holds over 18,000 residents.

Militants within the Damascus refugee camp were attacking new arrivals throughout the day said the PLO in a statement on Wednesday.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) repeatedly called on Syrian officials to allow aid into the camp, adding,

At least 147 people died in an attack on the Garissa University College campus by al-Shabab gunmen.

The four gunmen, who initially besieged the campus, targeting Christian students for executions, blew themselves up as the siege ended according to the Associated Press.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned what he called a "terrorist attack" and said the UN was ready to help Nairobi to "prevent and counter terrorism and violent extremism".

The United States said it was offering the Kenyan government assistance to take on al-Shabab and would continue to work with others to take on the group.

Houthi militants in Yemen seized the presidential district of Aden and overtook the president’s residency on Thursday, reports Reuters.

The city in the south of Yemen was taken by the Houthis after a seven day struggle which included Saudi Airstrikes to curtail the Houthi advances.

A senior US military official plated down the likelihood of external ground troops being sent in from Saudi Arabia, stating,