Turkey’s envoy to the European Union stated that the killing of over a million Armenians more than a century ago by the Ottoman Empire was a genocide.

Ali Haydar Konca, a parliamentarian with the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said:

The former Congolese rebel leader Bosco ‘The Terminator’ Ntaganda has pleaded not guilty on the first day of his trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Turkey has charged three journalists, working for Vice News, with "aiding a terrorist organisation".

Jake Hanrahan and cameraman Philip Pendlebury, who are British, and their Iraqi translator and a driver, who wished to be unnamed, were taken into custody on Thursday while working in the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir where they were covering clashes between the Turkish army and the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement, the youth wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

According to their lawyer, police were tipped off by an anonymous caller, who claimed the journalists were “working with the Islamic State”.

“This is an entirely baseless accusation,” lawyer Ahmet Ay said. “And none of the questions asked during their interrogation at the police station had anything to do with Isis. Nobody asked them about ties to the Islamist group.”

Militants form the Al Shabab group have attacked an African Union base in the south of Somalia, the BBC reports.

The AU mission in Somalia said they made a tactical withdrawal from the Janale base, but are now back in control.

Myanmar’s president signed of four bills that had been championed by radical Buddhist organisations and criticised by several rights groups as discriminatory to the Islamic community.

The UN will visit the UK to investigate whether recent welfare reforms by the British government have caused “grave or systematic violations” of disabled people’s human rights, “ reports The Independent.

As many as 36 people have been killed after a Saudi-led coalition air strike in the Hajjah province in Yemen, according to the latest reports.

The strike hit a bottling plant in the province, with witnesses reporting corpses were left “burnt or in pieces”. Most of the dead are civilians.