<p>A US sponsored resolution condemning Hamas' firing of rockets failed to be adopted at the UN General Assembly today.&nbsp;</p> <p>The resolution required a two-thirds majority to be passed, however, only 87 states voted in favour of the resolution.&nbsp;</p> <p>Sri Lanka was one of 33 states which abstained, along side 57 voting against.&nbsp;</p> <p>Hamas thanked UNGA member states who "stood by our people's resistance and the justice of their cause."&nbsp;</p>

Myanmar has engaged in crimes against humanity as well as fostering “long-standing discrimination against the Rohingya population” whilst “ensuring impunity for perpetrators”, a joint report by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide and Fortify Rights concluded.

The report details how the army and police alongside armed civilians “razed villages”, “killed men, women and children”, “raped and gang-raped Rohingya women and girls”, and illegally detained “masses of Rohingya men and boys”, many of whom remain missing.

The report also noted that within October and November 2016, the army alongside armed civilians engage in a “clearance operation” seemingly provoked by ARSA attacks on military outposts.

<p>The United Nations will host the first political talks between Morocco and separatist Polisario Front in 6 years, reports the <a href="https://www.thenational.ae/world/africa/un-to-host-peace-talks-on-the-f…">National.</a></p> <p>Last month the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution extending the mandate of the UN Mission for the referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). The talks under the auspices of the UN Secretary General Antonio Gutterre commence tomorrow.</p>

<p>Israel police have&nbsp;for the third time this year recommended that the country’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted on charges including bribery and fraud.</p> <p>Netanyahu must now wait for the decision of the attorney general, whom he appointed, on whether he will be indicted on all three charges.</p> <p>In the latest case, police accuse the prime minister of trading regulatory favours for favourable media coverage.</p>

<p>Two imprisoned Catalan leaders began a hunger strike this week to protest against what they described as unfair treatment by Spain.&nbsp;</p> <p>Jordi Sanchez, the head of the grassroots independence movement Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC) and Jordi Turull, former minister in Catalan’s regional government, condemned the Spanish government's treatment of them.&nbsp;</p> <p>A lawyer representing them, Jordi Pina told reporters that the pair accused Spain’s Constitutional Court of preventing their appeals from being heard by the European Court of Human Rights.&nbsp;</p>

<p>An anti-Taliban Shia Hazara militant commander has been released by Afghanistan’s government after two days of violent protests, following his arrest earlier this month.&nbsp;</p> <p>Alipur, known as “Commander Sword”, &nbsp;has been accused of conducting human rights abuses against the ethnic Pashtuns in the Maidan Wardak region, west of Kabul. Afghan police accuse him of several crimes and arrested him following an earlier failed attempted that ended in a shootout killing 12 people.</p>

<p>A senior Argentinian prosecutor is to launch a case against Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia over war crimes committed by the country's military in Yemen.&nbsp;</p> <p>The decision comes as the Crown Prince arrived in Buenos Aires to attend the G20 summit and follows a petition by Human Rights Watch urging action.&nbsp;</p> <p>The case will start with an Argentinian judge requesting information from Saudi and Yemeni authorities regarding the war crimes committed and will likely lead to a formal investigation.&nbsp;</p>

Canada imposed sanctions on 17 Saudi nationals today over the death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi almost one month ago. 

The affected nationals will not be allowed entrance into Canada and will have any of their assets within Canada frozen. All of the nationals are at present imprisoned however, making travel not possible. 

Stating that the government was also reassessing its arms trade with Saudi Arabia, the Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister, Chrystia Freeland told reporters "during this period of review, no new arms export permits are being issued". 

Freeland did not rule out suspending permits that have already been issued. 

<p>Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) MP Ian Blackford called for independence earlier this month, calling on Westminster to “show respect for Scotland”.</p> <p>“Scotland voted to remain in the EU,” Blackford tweeted.</p> <p>“Our rights as EU citizens and rights to free movement throughout the EU must not be taken away. Westminster has to show respect for Scotland and our sovereign rights as defined by the claim of right. Ultimately independence the only option”.</p>

<p>Uganda police used tear gas and live rounds to break up a gathering of opposition supporters in the southwestern town of Rukungiri on Monday reports Reuters.</p> <p>Patrick Onyango, a spokesman for the police, reported that they had arrested 15 people from the Forum For Democratic Change (FDC), Uganda’s largest opposition party, for allegedly staging an illegal meeting.</p> <p>He further stated: “we used force that was necessary to match the level of resistance from the offenders”.</p>