Putin condemns US ambassador's assasination

Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the violent assasination of the US Ambassador to Libya and called on new Arab governments to take responsibility for containing it, Reuters reports.

During a protest on Tuesday at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libyan Islamists staged military-style assaults on the mission and a safe house refuge.

The U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died in the assaults, carried out with guns, mortars and grenades.