19/10/2012 10:35
International press at a glance
BBC
China is conducting naval exercises in the East China Sea, state media report, amid heightened tensions with Japan over islands both claim.
Reuters
The international mediator on Syria will go to Damascus in the next few days to try to broker a brief ceasefire in the war between President Bashar al-Assad's government and rebels during the Islamic Eid al-Adha festival.
The Independent
Rwanda was elected to the UN Security Council yesterday despite claims that its troops supported a rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) accused of human rights abuses and attacking UN peacekeepers.
The Guardian
After failing to endorse the EU winning the Nobel peace prize, David Cameron has declined to say whether he will accept an invitation to attend the award ceremony in December in Oslo.
Sky
A female keeper is in a critical condition after being pinned against a bollard by an elephant at Sydney's Taronga Zoo.
France 24
Air strikes on the rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan killed at least 44 people on Thursday, rescue workers reported. Meanwhile in Damascus, a suicide bomber struck near the interior ministry, with no casualties reported.