The Central African Republic's foreign minister has rejected international warnings that the country could be headed for genocide.

According to AFP, foreign minister Leonie Banga Bothy told local radio on Saturday:

The United States, this week, called for deeper international involvement to halt the violence in Central African Republic, amid growing concerns of an imminent genocide.

The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Jan Eliasson, told Turkish press Friday, that the UN Security Council was late to act on the conflict situation in S

The French Foreign Minister has warned that the Central Africa Republic is on "the verge of genocide", as he sought UN permission for French and African Union forces to intervene militarily in the country.

Speaking on French television station France 2, the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said,

"It's total disorder... The country is on the verge of genocide”.

The former deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, Seamus Mallon, has said that anyone involved in shooting unarmed civilians during the Troubles must be prosecuted.

"Prosecutions are very difficult after a period of time," he said on Radio 4.

"That's no reason for not bringing them.

A car bomb in north Sinai killed 11 Egyptian soldiers and injured 34 others on Wednesday,  as unrest continue in the region.

Instability in the Sinai peninsula has grown with the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak, with the Egyptian army launching a recent offensive in the region. More than 20,000 troops were deployed in September as the army attempted to regain control of the area.

A German prosecutor has called for charges against a 94-year-old man, accused of Nazi-era war crimes, who emigrated to the USA in the late 1940s.

According to Thomas Will, deputy head of the central office investigating Nazi crimes, Ukrainian-born Michael Karkoc is accused of leading killings in the village of Chlaniow in 1944, killing around 40 civilians.

Will stated,

Relatives of victims of Srebrenica said they were in fear, after a court in Bosnia released 10 Bosnian Serb men jailed for genocide.

The men, sentenced for 28 to 32 years, were released by the court, stating that it had applied the wrong criminal code during their trials.

ABC News reported, that one relative, Munira Subasic, who lost 22 loved ones during the massacre, said she was now living in fear.

The Iranian embassy in the Lebanese capital Beirut was hit by a double suicide bombing earlier today.

At least 22 people are thought to have been killed, with scores more injured.

Spain’s National Court has ordered arrest warrants for former Chinese President Jiang Zemin and four other officials on suspicion of involvement in alleged genocide in Tibet.

The Iranian Defence Ministry has announced the development of a new drone, with a range that would cover most of the Middle East, including Israel.

Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan said that progress will not be halted by sanctions imposed by “enemies”.

He added that the drone could be airborne for up to 30 hours and was its largest drone.

A team of UK-based lawyers have accused the Egyptian military and interim government of war crimes and crimes against humanity, in a report released this weekend.

The team was appointed by the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing, the Freedom of Justice Party (FJP), with lead lawyer Tyab Ali saying,

The president of Kurdistan in Iraq, Masoud Barzani, has called on Kurds in Turkey to back the peace process with the Turkish government.

Barzani was visiting Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey’s Kurdish region.

At least 43 people were killed in clashes between militia on the outskirts of Libya's capital city Tripoli.

Fighting broke out on Friday after protesters marched on the headquarters of a militia group from Misrata, demanding they leave Tripoli.

The Libyan government is struggling to contain powerful militias within the country.