An Iranian diplomat was mobbed by protesters in New York, shortly after the President Ahmadinejad addressed the UN General Assembly.

Suspected war criminals have been arrested in Kosovo on Thursday, after a joint operation by the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo and Kosovo Police.

The Friends of Syria, consisting of several countries, including the US, the EU and the Arab League urged the Syrian opposition to unite in their fight against Assad.

At a meeting in New York, the Syrian opposition has been promised $45 million in non-lethal aid by the US, of which $30 million will be humanitarian aid.

Three Commonwealth Nobel Peace prizewinners - the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace laureate Nadine Gordimer, and Nobel literature winner Wole Soyinka, have slammed the newly proposed Commonwealth charter as "repetitive rhetoric", and called on the UK and other countries not to sign it.

The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the US will allow imports of Burmese goods.

The ban on the imports was one of the key sanctions that are still remaining against the Burmese government.

The former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, has been subjected to a travel ban, preventing him from leaving the capital Male.

A court ruled that Nasheed needs to seek the court’s permission if he wants to leave the capital, a move which, according to the court, is standard procedure ahead of the several court cases he is facing.

The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office expressed 'regret' at the recent elections that took place in Belarus on 23rd September.

In a statement, the FCO spokesperson, felt that the Belarus elections were "neither free nor fair".

The spokesperson said,

“We note the OSCE assessment that the elections were neither free nor fair. This is clearly disappointing. Whilst we welcome the improvements to the electoral law made in advance of these elections, they did not go far enough. We call on the government of Belarus to work constructively with the OSCE on further reforms. 

The two US marines who were filmed urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters have been recommended for a trial by court martial, according to the Pentagon.

Staff sergeants Joseph Chamblin and Edward Deptola will face the court martial, a month after three of their colleagues were given administrative punishments for their role in the incident.