A British MP has died after being shot and stabbed in West Yorkshire on Thursday afternoon.

Jo Cox, Labour MP for Batley and Spen was fatally shot and stabbed while leaving her constituency surgery earlier today.

A 52-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the attack.

According to The Guardian, police are investigating claims that the suspect had shouted 'Britain First' before shooting, referencing the far-right nationalist group.

Families of the victims reiterated their demand for a hybrid court to be established over alleged war crimes perpetrated during the civil war in South Sudan, after the country's president, Salva Kiir and his former opponent, the vice-president, Riek Machar, co-authored a piece in the New York Times yesterday stating South Sudan "needs truth, not trials."

A Guatemala court on Tuesday ordered either former members of the military to face trial for crimes against humanity and forced disappearances committed during the civil war which occurred during 1960 till 1996.

The charges related to mass graves found in the western region of the country, believed to hold the remains of over 565 Mayan people who were held at the former military base of Creompaz.

The hearing is scheduled to begin next Tuesday, with Judge Jasmin Barrios, who oversaw the genocide trial of Efrain Rios Montt in charge. The men could face up to 50 years in prison, if convicted.

German parliament has overwhelmingly adopted a resolution declaring the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 a genocide.

Germany joins over 20 nations including France and Russia that recognise the killings as genocide.

The passing of the bill sparked uproar in Turkey, with the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan announcing the immediate withdrawal of Turkey’s ambassador to Germany.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel in response to the genocide resolution, said,

The former Chadian ruler Hissene Habre has been sentenced to life after being convicted of crimes against humanity. at a trial in Senegal.

The landmark case examined allegations of rape, sexual slavery and extrajudicial killings during his reign in the eighties.

"This is a historic day for Chad and for Africa. It is the first time that an African head of state has been found guilty in another African country," Yamasoum Konar, a representative of one of the victims' groups, told the BBC.

"This will be a lesson to other dictators in Africa," he further said.

The Turkish government said it was "unacceptable" that US troops are donning the insignia of the YPG, the Kurdish movement in northern Syria, which it considers a terrorist organisation.

The photographs were published by AFP on Thursday, and picture US soldiers near Raqqa, with shoulder patches of the YPG insignia.

South Africa’s parliament on Thursday approved a bill allowing state expropriations of land to redress racial disparities in land ownership, reports Reuters.

A vast majority of South Africa’s land remains under white ownership.

The bill will enable the state to purchase land from private owners for ‘public interest’ in in an attempt to tackle the land appropriation that occurred during the apartheid regime.

The ruling African National Congress (ANC) said land will only be expropriated after ‘just and equitable’ compensation had been paid out.

Selling the Nigerian government warplanes would be a “mistake” said a New York Times editorial this week, as the West African country looks to purchase 12 jets from the USA.

Though current Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is “an improvement” over his predecessor, “he has not done enough to end corruption and respond to charges that the army has committed war crimes in its fight against the group,” said the editorial. “Selling him the planes now would be a mistake.”

It went on to note that the US State Department’s latest annual human rights report stated Nigerian security forces are alleged to have engaged in extrajudicial killings, torture and rape. Last month Amnesty International to call for an investigation into reports that Nigeria's military secretly buried more than 300 Shia Muslims in a mass grave.

The editorial also quoted Tim Rieser, aide to US Senator who wrote legislature banning US aid from reaching militaries accused of abuses as stating, “We don’t have confidence in the Nigerians’ ability to use them in a manner that complies with the laws of war and doesn’t end up disproportionately harming civilians, nor in the capability of the U.S. government to monitor their use”.