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 head of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) said he would push ahead with a move to try and suspend Israel from world football this week.
Stating that Israel was “playing like the bully of the neighbourhood", PFA head Jibril Rajoub said he would take the issue to the world football governing body and bring it to a vote. "I am going to end the suffering and the humiliation of the Palestinian footballers," he told the BBC. "It is our right."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the move was “a blatant politicisation of sport and the result will be Fifa's collapse". "The Athenian Assembly thousands of years ago collapsed when they started ousting people,” said the prime minister. “They cancelled its universality. The same will happen with Fifa. We'll fight against it."
Prosecutors in Germany concluded that a former SS lieutenant wanted for a World War II massacre in Italy is unfit to face trial.
Gerhard Sommer, who was on top of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazi criminals, was deemed to have severe dementia rendering him unfit for trial.
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.
The latest escalations in violence will bring at least 40% of South Sudan’s population in danger offacing a severe food shortage in coming months said the chief adviser for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.
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 European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini warned of potential war crimes being committed by the Islamic State (IS) after the fall of the ancient city of Palmyra last week.
The United Nations, European Union and African Union called on Burundi’s government and opposition to ensure that dialogue continues after an opposition politician was shot dead.
Ongoing war crimes were being committed by both warring sides of the conflict in Ukraine conflict found an Amnesty International report into the situation.
Amnesty’s program director for Europe and Central Asia programs, John Dalhuisen, said,
The UN said on Friday that it was in the process of investigating reports of serious human rights abuses in Mali, which included the mass execution of civilians in northern Mali during clashes this week.
Germany's Federal Court of Justice said a Rwandan man already sentenced for being an accessory to genocide could face life in prison, after it ruled that he was also guilty of perpetrating genocide, Reuters reported.
The US has admitted for the first time its air strikes in Syria caused civilian deaths, after reports that two children died in an air strike last year.
"We regret the unintentional loss of lives," said Lieutenant General James Terry, head of the US-led campaign.
