The US Secretary of State John Kerry has pledged to end drione strike on militants in Pakistan “very, very soon”, on the last day of his visit to the country.

"I think the programme will end as we have eliminated most of the threat and continue to eliminate it," Mr Kerry said in a television interview.

"The president has a very real timeline and we hope it's going to be very, very soon," he said.

The lead singer of the Grammy Award winning rock band, System Of A Down, Serj Tankian, challenged a full capacity crowd, at one of their Hollywood Bowl concerts, to imagine a world in which those who claim to speak for the international community remained silent on the Holocaust, as they do with various other genocides.

"This has been a huge farce,"

"In our view, that election is null and void."

A criminal court in Libya sentenced the education minister from Gaddafi’s era, Ahmed Ibrahim, to death today, for murder and inciting violence during the 2011 uprising that ended in the disposition of Gaddafi.

The United Nations’ intervention force in the Democratic Republic of Congo has given residents in Goma 48 hours to disarm and anyone armed beyond that time will be considered a rebel.

"They will be considered an imminent threat of physical violence to civilians and [UN mission in DR Congo] Monusco will take all necessary measures to disarm them, including by the use of force in accordance with its mandate and rules of engagement," a statement by the UN mission in the DR Congo, Monusco, said.

The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) has been involved in electoral fraud during the July 2013 national elections, suggests recent research by Human Rights Watch.

The Asia director of Human Rights Watch, Brad Adams, confirmed that,

The US Secretary of State has announced that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will aim to achieve a “final status agreement” over the coming 9 months, after talks between the two sides concluded in Washington.

“They are on the table with one simple goal: a view to ending the conflict, ending the claims. Our objective will be to achieve a final status agreement over the course of the next nine months” said Secretary John Kerry at a press briefing.