The United Nations humanitarian chief, Valerie Amos, repeated calls for the Syrian government to end restrictions on access to areas where Syrian civilians were in desperate need of international aid.

Speaking to Reuters after briefing the United Nations Security Council, Amos said,

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebel group in the Philippines signed a historic territorial peace deal with the government today, ending over four decades of conflict with the government of Philippines.

Turkey has moved to ban YouTube access after what appeared to be a leaked recording of Turkish officials discussing Syria surfaced on the YouTube website.

The leaked discussions were around military operations in Syria, with the Turkish Foreign minister and Intelligence Chief allegedly involved.

Reuters, who couldn’t confirm the participants in the leaked discussion, outlined that it was potentially the most damaging leak so far.

United Nations officials in the Central African Republic (CAR), urging the international community to increase its support, stressed today, that a lack of a political solution and sufficient funding  was keeping the region in a state of constant instability that worsened the humanitarian crisis.

Reiterating the importance of finding a political solution to ensure lasting peace and recovery in the region, the head of the UN peace-building mission in CAR, Babacar Gaye, told press,

King’s College London University Students Union, Tuesday, passed a motion that supported the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, that urged the international community to suspend economic cooperation with Israeli entities in protest of Israeli policies and operations in the West Bank and Gaza.

The motion, which passed with 348 of the overall 600 votes, read,

A US congressional panel, yesterday, passed a resolution that urged Myanmar to end discrimination against the Rohingya people.

The House of Foreign Affairs Committee approved a resolution calling for Myanmar to “end all forms of persecution and discrimination” against the Rohingya community.

The Chairman of the Committee, Ed Royce, commenting on the resolution, said,

The United Nations human rights office today deemed that the recent Egyptian court decision to sentence over 500 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death contravened international law.

Speaking in Geneva, the United Nations human rights spokesman, Rupert Colville, said,