The United States plans to renew the bulk of its sanctions against Myanmar when they expire next week, but will make some changes aimed at boosting investment and trade reports Reuters.

The Indian government has threatened to fine mapmakers which show disputed territory as anything other than part of India £10mn, The Telegraph reports.

Twitter, Facebook and Google are involved in the controversy after mapping Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh as part of Pakistan or China.

In a 415 page action plan published on Friday, Belgrade promised to reform its rule of law and “ensure that all allegations [about war crimes committed in former Yugoslavia during 1990s] are properly investigated and subsequently prosecuted and tried”.

Myanmar leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi called on the United States not to use the term ‘Rohingya’ when referring to a persecuted Muslim population in the country, reports the New York Times.

Ms Aung San Suu Kyi’s spokesman U Kyaw Zay Ya said that during a meeting with the United States ambassador, the leader of Myanmar’s government advised against using the term to describe the population, who have long faced persecution at the hands of extremist groups from the majority Buddhist population, and are denied citizenship and the right to vote.

A recent report from the International State Crime Initiative at the Queen Mary University of London found that there was substantial evidence that the Rohinyga population are facing state-sponsored genocide.

“We won’t use the term Rohingya because Rohingya are not recognized as among the 135 official ethnic groups,” said the foreign ministry official, adding that “our position is that using the controversial term does not support the national reconciliation process and solving problems.”

US Ambassador Scot Marciel reportedly stoked controversy when using the term in a statement last month after a group of Rohingya Muslims died after their boat capsized in Rakhine state.

Mr Marciel responded to the controversy by stating “we would call them what they want to be called.”

“It’s not a political decision; it’s just a normal practice,” he added.

The Kosovan football association has joined the European football governing body, UEFA, despite strong objections by Serbia.

The membership was granted in a vote which passed 28-24. Kosovo can now apply to join FIFA, the world governing body of football.

West Papuan activists and other political leaders have called on the UN to support an internationally supervised referendum on independence for the region, which is currently a province of Indonesia.

Independence leader Benny Wenda was joined by UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, Tongan Prime Minister ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Vanuatu minister Ralph Regenvanu and governors from Papua New Guinea, alongside other British MPs and human rights activists at a meeting in London.

"It's about a political strategy that brings to worldwide recognition the plight of the people of West Papua, that forces it onto a political agenda, that forces it to the UN, and ultimately allows the people of West Papua to make a choice about the kind of government they want and the kind of society in which they want to live," Mr Corbyn said, hailing the "historic" meeting.

The killing of rebels in Burundi has “ominous echoes” of the Rwandan genocide said the Economist in an editorial this week.

“In recent months repression has gathered steam” in Burundi said the editorial, noting President Pierre Nkurunziza’s “youth militia terrorises his opponents, many of whom are Tutsis” and that “hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people, mostly young men, have been “disappeared””.

The Pentagon says the US air strike which hit a hospital run by Medecins sans Frontieres and killed 42 people was not a war crime.

General Joseph Votel said that the "tragic strike" was due to human and technical error and confirmed that disciplinary charges are being brought against US personnel.

US forces thought the hospital building had been seized by the Taliban however as the mistaken strike was "unintentional", no war crime had been committed.

"The investigation found that the incident resulted from a combination of human errors, process errors and equipment failures and that none of the personnel knew they were striking a hospital," he said.