Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told her party’s Glasgow conference that an independence Referendum Bill would be published later next week.

Speaking at the Scottish National Party (SNP) conference in Glasgow, Ms Sturgeon, said,

“I am determined that Scotland will have the ability to reconsider the question of independence and to do so before the UK leaves the EU, if that is necessary to protect our country’s interests.  So I can confirm today that the Independence Referendum Bill will be published for consultation next week.”

Adding that she would oppose parliamentary attempts to leave the European Union Single market,  she said,

The destruction caused by Hurricane Matthew has killed an estimated 1,000 people in Haiti, amidst fresh reports of cholera outbreaks in the country, as it ended 3 days of national mourning on Tuesday.

UN Secretary Genera Ban Ki Moon has reiterated calls for an international inquiry into a Saudi air strike on a funeral in Yemen that killed at least 140 people.

"Despite mounting crimes by all parties to the conflict, we have yet to see the results of any credible investigations,” said the Secretary General, noting that  "this latest horrific incident demands a full inquiry".

Burundi's government has barred three United Nations investigators from entering the country, after a report they released last month warned of the risk of genocide taking place.

Burundi's Foreign Affairs Minister Alain Aime Nyamitwe wrote to the investigators - Pablo de Greiff, Christof Heyns and Maya Sahli-Fadel of - stating that they were no longer welcome in the country.

The report they wrote, which was presented to the UN Human Rights Council last month, said the investigators had "abundant evidence of gross human rights violations" and accused Burundi's government of having a role in the violence.

Myanmar has stepped up military security in the Muslim –majority region of Rakhine, reports Reuters.

The move came after members of the Rohingya community seized ammunition from border police and launched an attack on the police, resulting in the death of nine police officers.

The Rohingya, who are mostly stateless and are subject to severe restrictions on their movements, make up the majority of population in the northern part of the Rakhine State.

The Saudi-led coalition has been accused of carrying out a “genocide” in Yemen, after an airstrike on a funeral killed at least 140 people.

Mohammed Abdul-Salam, a spokesperson for the Yemeni opposition government in Sana'a said the airstrike was an act of "genocide"."The silence of the United Nations and the international community is the munition of the murderers," he said. "Those murderers will not escape divine justice."

The Turkish government claimed that two suspected militants who detonated a suicide car bomb after a standoff with police, were members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Ankara’s Governor Erkan Topaca said that the man and woman were confronted by Turkish police, who were acting on a tip off. They refused to surrender, and instead detonated the bomb inside their vehicle. No member of the security forces were injured in the incident.

The United States deported a Rwandan professor last month, over his reported involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide after a long running legal battle.

Leopold Munyakazi, a former university professor, is accused of organising night raids during the genocide, where some 800,000 people were killed. In one case, Mr Munyakazi is accused of personally shooting dead a man named Ugirashebuja Felicien Kirwa during the massacres.

The UN Security Council announced today that it has unanimously agreed that Portugal's former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres, should be the next UN Secretary General. Guterres led the UN Refugee Agency for 10 years until last December and will now take on the Secretary-General position from Ban-Ki Moon. 

The announcement was made by Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin after Guterres received 13 "encourage" votes, and two "no opinion" votes in the sixth informal poll conducted of the 15 UN Security Council member states. Guterres was the favourite in the initial 5 informal polls as well. 

The Taliban have launched an assault on the northern Afghan city of Kunduz last night, as fighters broke a defensive perimeter

Afghan government officials claimed to have repelled the attack but admitted that Taliban militants had entered several homes, as they attacked from four different sides of the city at midnight.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced on his official Twitter account that the group had capture several military checkpoints in a “massive operation”.