Kuwait- Briefing of KUNA main news for Thursday till 12:00 GMT

(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Geneva - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad Ibn Al-Hussein on Thursday urged the international community to take "robust decisive" action on the situation in Burundi to avert a civil war that could have serious ethnic overtones as well as alarming regional consequences.

Tokoy - Tokyo stocks rose Thursday following the first interest rate hike by the US Federal Reserve in more than nine years.

Tokoy - Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang made solemn representations to the US over its arms sale to Taiwan and summoned a US envoy in Beijing state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday.

Geneva - More than 16 million babies were born in conflict zones in 2015 -- one in eight of all births worldwide this year the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday affirming that the figure underscores the vulnerability faced by increasing numbers of children. (end) nfm