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 US Secretary of State John Kerry, unveiled $40 million in new funding, to aid the African Union- led peacekeeping mission known as MISCA.

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 Syria.

Lamenting the deteriorating situation in Syria, he said,

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 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,

"I came to the conclusion that he was in charge during a crime in Chlaniow... The charge would be about 40 counts of murder."

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.

"I feel like a victim again," she said. "I don't know where the released criminals now are. They could be standing behind my back as we speak."

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.

The head of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, a group some suspect of having links to Al Qaeda, said it was behind the attack and that the attack was a "double martyrdom operation carried out by two heroes from the heroic Sunnis of Lebanon".

The US condemned the bombings as "senseless and despicable" .

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.