Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad expressed his commitment to international calls to destroy Syrian chemical weapons, outlining that it would take a year.
A US court has deemed that Almaz Nezirevic, a prison guard from Bosnia who is suspected of committing war crimes, can be extradited to Bosnia due to a sufficient amount of evidence against him.
Nezirevic has resided in the US, in Virginia, for over fifteen years.
The United Nation's defended the report released on Monday, which confirmed the use of sarin nerve agent in a chemical weapon attack in Syria, as "indisputable".
Speaking to the press on Wednesday the UN spokesperson Martin Nesirky said,
The United Nations experts investigating human rights conditions in North Korea outlined “shocking evidence” of widespread abuses and atrocities that required an international response.
Sudanese President Omar Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court, has applied for a visa to travel to the UN General Assembly in New York.
Describing the request as "deplorable" Reuters quoted a senior State Department official as saying it was "deplorable" and he would "not receive a warm welcome" at the UN.
The Taliban in Pakistan has outlined conditions for talks to begin, demanding that the Pakistan government release Taliban prisoners and being withdrawing its troops from the tribal region on the Afghanistan border, as a prerequisite for taking part in talks.
Hundreds of demonstrators were attacked by smoke grenades and water canons fired by Cambodian police today, amid tensions in the Cambodian capital over the country’s disputed national elections.
Ina joint news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, US Secretary of State John Kerry, outlined a new framework which involved the handing over of Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons.
