UN Secretary Genera Ban Ki Moon has reiterated calls for an international inquiry into a Saudi air strike on a funeral in Yemen that killed at least 140 people.
Burundi's government has barred three United Nations investigators from entering the country, after a report they released last month warned of the risk of genocide taking place.
Burundi's Foreign Affairs Minister Alain Aime Nyamitwe wrote to the investigators - Pablo de Greiff, Christof Heyns and Maya Sahli-Fadel of - stating that they were no longer welcome in the country.
Myanmar has stepped up military security in the Muslim –majority region of Rakhine, reports Reuters.
The move came after members of the Rohingya community seized ammunition from border police and launched an attack on the police, resulting in the death of nine police officers.
The Turkish government claimed that two suspected militants who detonated a suicide car bomb after a standoff with police, were members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Ankara’s Governor Erkan Topaca said that the man and woman were confronted by Turkish police, who were acting on a tip off. They refused to surrender, and instead detonated the bomb inside their vehicle. No member of the security forces were injured in the incident.
The United States deported a Rwandan professor last month, over his reported involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide after a long running legal battle.
The UN Security Council announced today that it has unanimously agreed that Portugal's former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres, should be the next UN Secretary General. Guterres led the UN Refugee Agency for 10 years until last December and will now take on the Secretary-General position from Ban-Ki Moon.
The Taliban have launched an assault on the northern Afghan city of Kunduz last night, as fighters broke a defensive perimeter
Afghan government officials claimed to have repelled the attack but admitted that Taliban militants had entered several homes, as they attacked from four different sides of the city at midnight.
In an unexpected result to Sunday's referendum on a peace deal agreed by the Colombian government and Farc, Colombians have rejected the agreement, with 50.24% voting against it.
The peace agreement, which was signed by the president Juan Manuel Santos and the Farc leader, known as Timochenko last week, would allow an effective amnesty for war crimes and permit 10 unelected seats in congress for Farc at the next election.
Members of Canada’s indigenous population who suffered during the infamous ‘Sixties Scoop’ in Canada have demanded compensation from the federal government, as a growing number of lawsuits are filed.
The largest hospital in opposition-held Aleppo has been forced to shut after it was stuck by cluster and barrel bombs yesterday, as fighting in the Syrian city continues.
“Two barrel bombs hit the M10 hospital and there were reports of a cluster bomb as well,” Adham Sahloul of the Syrian American Medical Society (Sams).
Colombians on Sunday vote on whether to accept or reject the peace agreement signed last month between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Opinion polls carried out in preceding days indicate that the peace deal will be accepted by the people.
The deal was struck after 50 years of armed conflict and signed by the FARC leader, Rodrigo Londono (alias Timochenko) last Monday.
The United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide slammed the president of the Philippines for calling for a campaign to kill millions of drug addicts in a manner similar to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, where over 6 million Jews were systematically killed by the government.
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday voted in favour of establishing a UN commission of inquiry into alleged human rights violations that took place in Burundi over the past year and a half.
Burundi, which is facing calls to be removed from the Council, voted against the inquiry unsurprisingly. Nineteen members voted in favour, with 7 against and 21 abstentions.
Amnesty International on Thursday published evidence of Sudanese government forces appearing to use chemical weapons on civilians in Darfur.
An investigation using satellite images and interviews with over 200 survivors has revealed that at least 30 chemical attacks are likely to have occurred since January 2016.
