Georgia will seek a ruling from the UN’s highest court in the Hague later today ordering Russia to stop what it is claimed are human rights violations against ethnic Georgians in the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Serbia’s main political opposition party is in disarray after the resignation of its leader.Tomislav Nikolic stood down after hard-line colleagues in the Serbian Radical Party refused to back his call for closer EU ties.

About 30 Palestinians living in a refugee camp in the desert region along the Iraqi-Syrian border are due to leave for resettlement in Iceland.