Kenya has called upon the United Nations Security Council to for all International Criminal Court charges against Kenyan political leaders to be dropped.

Speaking after a closed-door meeting with the council, Kenya's UN ambassador Macharia Kamau said,

Several foreign aid organisations have said that financial sanctions imposed by the United States are severely restricting their work in the country.

Save the Children, Concern Worldwide, Handicap International, Welthungerhilfe, PMU-AMI and Triangle Generation Humanitaire say they cannot receive money in North Korea’s Foreign Trade Bank, which is the target of sanctions by the US treasury.

The government has reversed its decision not to give Afghan interpreters the right to live in the UK.

Up to 600 Afghans, who worked on the frontline for a year or more, will be allowed to remain in the UK, after concerns were raised over their safety in Afghanistan.

The World Bank pledged $1 billion to help fund development in Congo, provided there was a return to peace.

The White House has admitted for the first time that 4 US citizens have been killed by drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. wrote to Congressional leaders accepting US responsibility for the deaths of 4 individuals with US citizenship, but claimed 3 of these men "were not specifically targeted by the United States”.

Colombian authorities say the head of security for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who was also the right-hand man of the guerrilla group leader, has been killed.

Syrian troops have exchanged fire with Israeli soldiers along the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights.

Damascus said it had attacked an Israeli vehicle that crossed onto its territory, while Israel’s defence ministry said it returned fire after one of its vehicles was hit by shots from Syria.

At the launch of the paper, Salmond stated Scotland could ''more than afford to be independent'' adding,

Rwandan President Paul kagame has denounced the UN’s peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo, saying it has made the situation worse in some cases.

Speaking to the BBC, Kagame said that military action needed to be "properly co-ordinated" with political efforts.

US President Obama has praised the Burmese President Thein Sein, after he became the first Burmese leader to visit the White House since 1966.

Obama stated that Thein Sein had made "genuine efforts" to solve the Burma's ongoing ethnic conflict, a whilst also referring to the country as Myanmar - the name appointed by the country's military rulers, for the first time.

North Korea has been urged to end missile tests by UN Secretary general Ban Ki-moon.

"I hope that North Korea will refrain from such actions," Mr Ban told Russia's RIA Novosti news agency, after missile tests by North Korea on Saturday.