Protests have hit the Liberian capital Monrovia, after a quarantine was imposed to halt the spread of Ebola.

Police opened fire on the protestors, leaving four people injured. Liberia is the worst affected country in the current crisis, with at least 576 deaths.

Swiss authorities have announced that six more unarmed military personnel are to join a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, as Sahrawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz called for greater access to international observers.

Germany is prepared to arm Kurdish fighters battling Sunni insurgents in northern Iraq, said the German Defence Minister on Wednesday.

“We are prepared, in principle, to provide weapons and ammunition within our means,” said Ursulla von der Leyen, reports the Associated Press.

The United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic will reach full deployment in the region by the 15th of September 2014,  the UN Security Council heard today.

Israel and Palestinian leaders agreed to extend the Gaza truce for another 24 hours minutes before the ceasefire was due to end on Monday night, reports Aljazeera.

Both Palestinian and Israeli officials have welcomed the ceasefire extension as a positive way to bolster the talks in Cairo.

The Indian government has called off talks with Pakistan, after its High Commissioner in Delhi consulted Kashmiri separatist leaders.

Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh was due to meet her Pakistani counterpart in Islamabad, when High Commissioner Abdul Basit announced his plan to meet the Kashmiris last week.

India's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said Delhi told the High Commissioner "that Pakistan's continued efforts to interfere in India's internal affairs were unacceptable".

Turkish security forces have killed a Kurdish protestor, after demonstrations against the removal of a statue of Mahsum Korkmaz, the founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The statue was unveiled in a PKK cemetery last week, in the Kurdish city of Lice, to mark the 30th anniversary of the first attack by the group, which is banned as a terrorist organisation in the country.

The nationwide census conducted by the Burmese regime deliberately excluded Rohingya Muslims, independent observers charged.

The Myanmar Census Observation Team said the government rejected census forms from those who self-identified as Rohingya, the Myanmar Times reports.

"The exclusion of the Rohingya/Bengali population from the census enumeration poses serious methodological problems," a report from the 47-member census monitor group said.

"The resulting undercount will not only have a negative impact on the census results at the state and region levels but also at the national level if the missing population is not included, based on a proper count."

The government does not recognise the term Rohingya, referring to the people as Bengalis.

UN officials said they avoid the term Rohingya in public, for fear of stirring tensions between majority Buddhists and the Muslims.

The truce between Israel and Hamas was interrupted by rocket fire into Israel, followed by Israeli air strikes into Gaza, hours before it was set to end as negotiators in Cairo strove to build a longer lasting ceasefire.

The United Nations Mission to South Sudan (UNMISS) condemned live gunfire by the opposition Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) militants near a UN base in Bentiu, that left one child injured.

A statement by the mission said that the UN mission sustained gunfire for 30 minutes which penetrated accommodations and office blocks.

The United Nations agency for Refugees (UNHCR) is launching a major aid operation to reach over 500,000 people displaced by fighting in Iraq, reports the BBC.

The UNHCR said that it would send its goods at services to the northern region of Iraq through the Kurdish capital city of Irbil from Wednesday morning.

The United Nations says that 2013 has been the deadliest year on record for humanitarian workers across the globe, with 155 aid workers were killed, 171 were seriously wounded and another 134 were kidnapped.

In a report released to mark the World Humanitarian Day, the UN said that 2013 had seen a 66% increase on the previous year. Three-quarters of these attacks took place in five countries; Afghanistan, Syria, South Sudan, Pakistan and Sudan.