Clashes near Libya's capital intensified on Tuesday as fighting for besieged Tripoli raged on for the second month.

Lebanese have marked 44 years since the start of the Lebanese Civil War which claimed lives of an estimated 150,000 people.

Fighting is intensifying between the UN-backed government in the capital Tripoli and self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) led by military strongman Khalifa Hafter.

Tensions are rising in Libya as Field Marshal Haftar ordered his eastern military forces to advance on the capital, Tripoli.

The UN has warned that hunger is worsening in South Sudan five months after a peace deal signed aimed at ending a civil war.

A new UN report says armed rebel forces in South Sudan abducted girls to be taken as "wives" for their commanders.

South Sudan’s civil war has claimed the lives of nearly 400,000 people since fighting erupted in late 2013, a new study says, offering a tally far higher than previous estimates.

Spanish lawmakers on Thursday voted to remove the remains of Francisco Franco from a mausoleum for tens of thousands of victims of the 1936-39 civil war that brought him to power as a military dictator.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir says he is ready to accept a peace deal to end a civil war and set up an inclusive new government.

Hundreds of people staged a protest in Madrid to demand justice for the victims of the Franco era.