massacred
at Srebrenica to sue the United Nations for failing to prevent the killings. The court upheld earlier rulings, saying the UN was protected by immunity under international conventions. Lawyers representing a group of thousands of relatives have said they'll
appeal to
the European Court of Human Rights. Dutch peacekeepers in Srebrenica were unable to prevent Bosnian-Serb forces from murdering some 8,000 Muslim men and boys from the town in 1995.
The United States says it'll cancel its planned food aid deliveries to North Korea after the government in Pyongyang defied Security Council resolutions and went ahead with a rocket launch on Friday morning. From Washington, Steve Kingstone.
A senior administration official told reporters it was impossible to see how the US could move forward with sending food aid in light of North Korea's rocket launch. The planned assistance had been part of a
tentative
agreement announced in February under which Pyongyang had pledged to halt uranium enrichment and other nuclear activities. A spokesman for the US State Department said that agreement was now suspended. Washington viewed the rocket launch as a thinly
disguised
test of long-range missile technology.
The United Nations refugee agency says it's concerned at the growing number of people fleeing the fighting in northwest Pakistan between government troops and Islamist militants. The agency said about 10,000 new arrivals a day were being registered at a camp near Peshawar.