The United Nations Security Council on Thursday authorised a military intervention led by African states to help defeat Islamist militants in northern Mali.
Russian President Vladmir Putin has warned of the conflict in Syria continuing “forever” and has insisted that Russia is not propping up the Syrian regime.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that there is a ‘strategic imperative to act’ in Syria and called for wider support for the Syrian opposition, including supplying arms to Syrian rebels.
Beijing has warned Australia against continuing the discrimination against Chinese companies seeking to invest in Australia, saying it could jeopardise Astralia's future role in China's growth.
Australia recently banned Chinese firm Huawei from working on the National Broadband Network (NBN).
The European Court of Human Rights has told Russia to pay over 500,000 Euros to the families of eight men apparently abducted by security forces in Chechnya.
The men who disappeared between 2002 and 2004 are all presumed dead.
The vice-president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BHCR), Sayed Yousif al-Muhafdha has been detained at a protest commemorating the death of two Bahraini protestors.
Prosecutors ordered that Muhafdha was to be detained for a week due to a pending investigation that claimed Muhafdha had broadcast false information on Twitter.
The former leader of a Congolese militia has been acquitted By the International Criminal Court, who had charged him with 7 counts of war crimes and 3 counts of crimes against humanities.
Two men convicted for their roles in the Rwandan genocide have been granted early release from their imprisonment in Mali by the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT).
The MICT was established in 2010 to handle assist both the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Leaders of Iraq and the semiautonomous region of Kurdistan warned that they were close to civil war, due to Exxon Mobil’s attempt to drill for oil, amidst negotiations between the two opposing armies.
A faction of the Syrian opposition has captured an infantry base in Aleppo, the second key army base in a week.
According to a post on al-Tawheed Brigade's website today, the army base known as Hanano Barracks was taken yesterday, with the rebel brigade's commander, Colonel Youseff al-Jader being killed during the battle.
Indonesian police have shot dead two members of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), a separatist group, campaigning for West Papuan independence.
Hubertus Mabel, 30, and Natalis Alua were killed, bringing the toal of KNPB members killed this year to 22.
Egypt’s public prosecutor, appointed by President Mohamed Morsi, resigned from his post on Monday, in a move that was seen by Morsi’s opponents as a victory for the independence of the judiciary.
The French government has come under fire for being a haven for Rwandan genocide suspects after a controversial court ruling earlier this week.
A French court decided to grant residence to Agathe Habyarimana (also known as Agathe Kanziga), widow of former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, who is wanted in Rwanda under charges of genocide.
