Myanmar criticised claims by a group of Nobel laureates last week that Rohingya Muslims in the country are facing genocide.

Six world powers agreed on a UN mechanism that would restore sanctions on Iran if it breaks terms of a future nuclear deal, reports Reuters.

The Democratic Humanist Centre party (CDH) expelled their deputy leader for refusing to call the mass killing of Armenians in 1915 by the Ottoman Empire genocide.

The Rwandan government has ordered an indefinite suspension of all BBC broadcasts in the country after the airing of a controversial documentary on the 1994 genocide, which has led to accusations of genocide denial.

The Rwandan public regulatory body, which had recently launched an investigation into the documentary, said the decision was made based "on the resolutions made by the commission of inquiry that was set up by the Rwandan government to investigate allegations of genocide denial and revisionism against the BBC in the new documentary produced by BBC journalist, Jane Corbin".

The documentary, “Rwanda's Untold Story”, contained allegations that current President Paul Kagame and his then Rwandan Patriotic Front armed organisation shot down and killed then Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana, sparking the genocide which killed some 800,000 people.

The US administration, on Friday, removed Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism following a round of negotiations, reports the Washington Post.

The United Nations envoy to Kosovo urged the government to set up a war crimes court in order to try former Kosovo Liberation Army members for war crimes.

Officials from the FARC militants in Colombia announced that one of their peace negotiators had been killed in the Colombian government’s last bombing raid.

Pedro Nel Daza Martinez, also known as Jairo, was one of the 27 Farc militants killed in bombing raids last Thursday.

European Union judges in Kosovo sentenced for former Kosovo-Albanian militants responsible for war crimes during the pro-independence uprising in 1998.

Two of the militants sentenced were close to the former prime minister Hashim Thaci were sentenced by the EU mission.

Amnesty International in a report released on Tuesday said that Hamas militants had committed war crimes against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip during last year’s conflict with Israel.

The latest escalations in violence will bring at least 40% of South Sudan’s population in danger of  facing a severe food shortage in coming months said the chief adviser for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.