World News Update, what you need to know

SOUTH African state prosecutors will appeal the verdict and five-year jail term handed down to fallen track star Oscar Pistorius over the killing of his girlfriend last year.

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LONDON - They are some of our bravest war heroes, used to roughing it in tough desert conditions, but Australia's surviving Victoria Cross winners were in more palatial surrounds as they met Prince Charles for tea in London. KUNDUZ - Taliban militants have stormed a court in northern Afghanistan, killing at least seven people including prosecutors as they shot them in their offices at close range. JERUSALEM - Israel has given the go-ahead for plans to build more than 1000 new Jewish settler homes in annexed east Jerusalem, sparking a Palestinian warning of an 'explosion' of violence. KUWAIT CITY, Oct 27 AFP - Washington has called for the battle against the Islamic State group to be extended to the internet, as coalition partners met for talks on how to stop the jihadists' online propaganda. KIEV - The pro-Western winners of Ukraine's parliamentary poll are negotiating the formation of a ruling coalition, but fighting with pro-Russian insurgents highlighted the obstacles to their promises of peace and close ties to the European Union. GWANGJU, - Prosecutors have demanded the death penalty for the captain of the South Korean ferry that sank in April, branding him an unrepentant liar who abandoned the more than 300 people who died in the disaster.