The former spokesperson of Muammar Gaddafi, Moussa Ibrahim has been captured, said the office of Libya's Prime Minister.

The office said he was arrest on Saturday in Tarhouna and was being transferred to Tripoli.

In a statement, the office said:

A former Argentinean army general who led troops in the Falklands war has been arrested over his role in committing alleged crimes against humanity, during the country’s 1976-83 military dictatorship.

UN member states have voted Rwanda onto the Security Council, where they will serve for two years.

The country will replace South Africa and occupy the African seat, which was uncontested, on January 1.

The prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo met for the first time on Friday, in order to help improve relations and make progress on their respective bids for the European Union.

The meeting was mediated by Catherine Aston, the EU foreign policy chief, in Brussels.

French President François Hollande has acknowledged that Algerian demonstrators were massacred during a pro-independence rally in Paris in 1961.

The admission marks the first time a French leader has publicly accepted that the killings took place.

Twitter blocked an account belonging to a banned neo-Nazi group on Thursday, preventing Germans receiving or viewing tweets from the account.

The group Besseres Hannover, under the alias @hannoverticker now reveals only the following generic tweet: “Withheld account. @Hannover ticker’s account has been withheld in Germany.”

The Philippines’ House of Representatives has ratified a bill which would criminalise enforced disappearances, which have been mostly sanctioned by the government.

The new law will come into force Presdient Aquino signs the Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012, which would make the Philippines the first Asian country to enact such a law.

"The occurrence of enforced or involuntary disappearance and the impunity of offenders who are agents of the State are now finally consigned to the past," Representative Edcel Lagman said, according to Interaksyon.

"The same obtained Congressional approval on 20 September 2012, a day before the 40th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law an era when enforced disappearance was an atrocious tool of the martial law regime to silence protesters and human rights madvocates," Lagman, one of the principal authors of the bill, said.

Hundreds of Filipinos disappeared during the Martial Law period, with disappearances still occurring today.

See below for some of the important features of the bill:

The UK’s Foreign Affairs Committee has criticised the British government, accusing them of being inconsistent on issues of human rights in other countries.

The report particularly highlighted the case of Bahrain, criticising the decision to take no action over the Bahrain grand Prix, but boycott football matches in Ukraine for the Euro 2012 championships.

UK ministers to boycott Euro 2012 football in Ukraine (07 June 2012)

Former F1 Champion wants Bahrain Grand Prix rethink (05 April 2012)

Richard Ottaway, the MP who chairs the committee, told the BBC,

"What we're saying is, whichever side of the argument you're on here - and people in the human rights sector are on both sides of the argument - that there has to be some form of consistency."

"We think perhaps the government should make clear what their approach is to international boycotts and sanctions before going one way in one case and another in another case."

The report went on to state that Bahrain should be placed on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s list of "countries of concern". The list currently contains 28 countries which include North Korea, Sudan Iran and Sri Lanka amongst others. See here.

A Foreign Office spokesman responded to the report, commenting,

"Human rights are essential to and indivisible from our foreign policy objectives... They are part of our national DNA and are woven deeply into the decision-making processes of our foreign policy at every stage.

We cannot achieve long-term security and prosperity unless we uphold our values.

European Union (EU) announced its most rigorous sanctions yet against Iran in an attempt to pressurise Tehran into negotiations over its nuclear program. Sanctions will target the financial sector, energy and shipping while imposing tighter measures on Central Bank of Iran. European Union will further restrict the exportation of graphite, metals and shipbuilding materials as well as importing gas to Europe.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) have criticised an armed police raid on the offices of a prominent defence lawyer in the Bangladeshi war crimes trials, calling the raid ‘a grave affront to the basic tenets of fair trials.’

Asia Director at HRW, Brad Adams said:

British Prime Minister David Cameron has urged the international community to show “courage” and allow the sanctions, which have been imposed on Iran, to take effect.

Speaking at a United Jewish Israel Appeal in London he said that this was not the time for Israel to take military action against Iran.