Following a fact finding mission late last year, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Kurdistan Region in Iraq is set to release a report on Wednesday, highlighting the region as a “major success story”.

Detailing a visit by a group of British parliamentarians to the region in November 2013, the report, entitled ‘Five years: the continuing story of success and transition in the Kurdistan Region’, commended the Kurdistan Regional Government on its progress since the visit of the first parliamentary delegation in February 2008.

"Following various meetings that have taken place since 2012, the FIFA Emergency Committee has today...confirmed a set of modalities of friendly matches involving clubs and representative teams of Kosovo,"

"Clubs and representative teams of the [Football Federation of Kosovo] may not display national symbols or play national anthems."

The Egyptian people have voted in the first of two days in a referendum on a new constitution for the country.

The new constitution would overrule the charter put in place by the deposed President Mohammed Morsi.

His Muslim Brotherhood has called for a boycott of the vote and supporters of the group have been involved in clashes with security forces, leaving at least 9 people dead.

With the year 2014 marking 20 years since the climax of the Rwandan genocide, the search for suspects accused of participating in the crimes of 1994, continues to this day.

The New York Times, in a piece for “The Saturday Profile” segment, met with Alain Gauthier and his wife Dafroza  Gauthier, who for 13 years have been tracking down fugitives from the country’s genocide.

Speaking on their hunt for suspects, Mrs Gauthier said,

Two 21 year old men were arrested on their return from Turkey on suspicion of partaking in “terrorist activities” in Syria.

The men, who are both from Birmingham, are believed to have gone to Syria in May last year.

Det Chief Supt Kenny Bell, head of the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, said to media:

The 20th of January has been set as the date for when a deal, which will see Iran freeze part of its nuclear program in exchange for an easing of sanctions, will come into effect.

The agreement, which had been worked out during talks in November, means that Iran has agreed to suspend elements of nuclear enrichment for the next 6 months. In return, key sanctions on Iran are to be eased, granting an estimated $7 billion in sanctions relief, according to the White House.

EU's foreign policy head baroness Catherine Ashton welcomed the deal in a statement, noting,

The Spanish government has condemned the regional Basque government over yesterday’s huge protest rally, which saw over 100,000 people pack the streets of Bilbao, reported Euronews.

The protest saw unprecedented unity between all major Basque nationalist parties, although a Madrid court ruled that the march should not go ahead.

The protestors were marching in support the rights of Basque political prisoners and human rights.