The United Nations Security Council will send a high-level fact-finding mission to Afghanistan next week to review the threat posed by Taliban and Al Qaida extremists, council president for the current month Jorge Voto-Bernales said on Thursday.

French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has agreed to declassify 105 secret intelligence reports for investigating allegations that French troops helped Rwanda's former Hutu government massacre ethnic Tutsis in 1994 genocide.

The European Union (EU) peacekeeping force is confident about its ability to stem any violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after the country's presidential runoff last Sunday, a spokesman for the force said on Thursday.

Cote d'Ivoire's president Laurent Gbagbo reiterated on Thursday that the status and importance of the country's constitution as the basic law of governance, should not be weakened.

Mexican federal police on Thursday besieged a university packed with protestors in the troubled southern city of Oaxaca.

The National Election Committee (NEC) altogether registered 1,062,687 new voters for the upcoming town and sub-district elections, upon the completion of its registration work on Oct. 24, local media reported on Friday.

Fijian Police Commissioner Andrew Hughes has said he does not believe that there will be a military coup in his country, according to a local media on Friday.

Two senior U.S. State Department officials will visit Japan, China and South Korea next week to prepare for resumption of the six-party talks on resolving the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, the department said on Thursday.

Hungary's Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany on Thursday opened an international conference entitled The Future of Europe and the Role of Parliaments.

The Carter Center, a non-government observer group run by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, will observe Nicaragua's Nov. 5 elections, Carter Center's Chief of Mission Jaime Aparicio said on Thursday.