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Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters head to Syria to fight against ISIL in Kobani
"This is a nice gesture. Nobody did what Masoud Barzani is doing now. He extended his hand for our brothers who are trapped there. We are all supporting him."
Liberia, and other countries affected by Ebola, have condemned Australia's visa ban for travelers from those countries
"We would just like the international community to continue this as a global threat, that stigmatisation, exclusion, restriction is not the appropriate response to this.”
The Chinese government is pledging 2 billion yuan worth of assistance for the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
"It's a pleasure for me to meet President Ghani. China is the destination for your first foreign visit and the visit comes within one month of you taking office.”
And the UN General Assembly has condemned for the 23rd time the US trade embargo on Cuba
"Our sanctions toward Cuba are part of our overall effort to help the Cuban people freely exercise their human rights and fundamental freedoms and determine their own future”.
Those stories and more over the hour and towards the end of the show we'll be looking at comments online about comedian Russell Brand's comments on 9/11 in an interview with the BBC.
Now our global survey of headlines
First up, in Asia,
In Japan, a town in the southwest of the country became the first to approve the restart of a nuclear power station.
In India, police are searching for thieves who robbed a bank by digging a 40-metre tunnel straight into the vault late at night.
In Oceania,
In Australia, Australia National University has urged the Senate to pass government proposals that would allow institutions to set their own fees.
In New Zealand, the country will hold a binding referendum in 2016 on whether to change the national flag.
Moving on to Africa,
In Burkina Faso, tens of thousands of people have protested in the capital against moves to extend the president's 27-year rule.
In Nigeria, the government says it is still holding talks with Boko Haram, two weeks after the government said it had agreed to a truce with the Islamist militant group.
And in the Middle East,
In Egypt, the government is planning to create a 500 meter buffer zone along the border with the Gaza Strip to block the smuggling of weapons.
In Libya, U.N. special envoy says that factional warfare is pushing the oil producer "very close to the point of no return".
Looking to Latin America,
In Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro has announced that he will "purge" the police force after alleging officers were involved in the murder of a lawmaker.
In Brazil, at least ten people have been killed and 30 injured in a crash between a bus and a tanker lorry in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo.
And in Europe,
In the UK, armed soldiers have been deployed at a top tourist attraction in the heart of London's government district as a precautionary measure after an Islamist gunman attacked the Canadian parliament last week.
In Netherlands, investigators want Russia to hand over evidence it claims to have showing a Ukrainian jet in the same area as flight MH17 when it was downed.
And finally in North America,
In Mexico, authorities are still searching for 43 students who disappeared after clashing with police last month.
In the U.S., An unmanned supply rocket bound for the International Space Station exploded during its launch from the US state of Virginia.
That's our global survey of headlines.