LIBYA was suspended from the UN Human Rights Council last night in the latest international effort to isolate Muammar Gaddafi’s government for its violent attacks on protesters.

Israel could face calls by the United Nations Security Council to refer alleged war crimes to the International Criminal Court in The Hague after a UN council backed a controversial report.

China refused to apologise today for three weekends of violent anti-Japanese demonstrations that damaged Tokyo’s Beijing embassy and a consulate in protests over Japan’s wartime history and campaign for a permanent UN Security Council seat.

A US ENVOY yesterday said the North Korean nuclear crisis would come before the UN Security Council as soon as this week, and South and North Korea held high-level talks that were overshadowed by the dispute.

THE United States is on course towards war for early next year after Washington declared Iraq in “material breach” of a UN disarmament resolution last night.