The European Union has voted for an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia in response to the states heavy bombing of Yemen during its campaign against Houthi militants.

The non-binding motion was passed by 359 votes to 212, and adds to a code of conduct agreed by the EU in 2008 where countries promised to not sell weapons to countries where they might be used “to commit serious violation of international humanitarian law.”

A British lawmaker and Labour MEP Richard Howitt, who helped draft the motion, said,

The United States presented a draft to the United Nations Security Council resolution seeking to dramatically tighten existing restrictions on North Korea, reports Reuters.

The draft calls on UN member states to conduct inspections of all cargo passing through their territory to or from North Korea to look for illicit goods.

The resolution added further calls for bans on all supplies of aviation and rocket fuel to North Korea.

A report by released by the UN on Thursday states that all sides of the conflict in Libya are likely to have committed war crimes, including rape, extrajudicial executions and torture.

“A multitude of actors, both state and non-state, are accused of very serious violations and abuses that may, in many cases, amount to war crimes,” the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said.

The UN investigative team, examined the conflict during 2014 and 2015. The team was only able to visit Libya once due to security concerns, however over 200 witnesses and victims were interviewed.

The UN on Wednesday air dropped 21 tonnes of humanitarian aid goods to Syria, in its first air drop to the region.

The air drop took place in the region of Deir la-Zour, where the UN estimates over 200,000 civilians have become besieged by Islamic State forces.

"Earlier this morning, a WFP (World Food Programme) plane dropped the first cargo of 21 tonnes of items into Deir al-Zour," the UN's aid chief Stephen O'Brien told the UN Security Council on Wednesday.

A former Bosnian Serb police officer who was convicted and jailed in 2004 for 17 years by international war crimes tribunal in the Hague, was arrested again on Monday along with two other Bosnian Serbs for further charges of war crimes.

Darko Mrdja, who was released from prison in 2013, confessed to have played a part in the killing of over 150 Bosnian Muslims in 1992.

Mr Mrdja, was arrested along side Radenko Marinovic and Milan Gavrilovic, for alleged killing and maltreatment of prisoners at the Omarska and Manjaca detention camps in the northwestern region of Bosnia.