France on Tuesday pledged to deploy 1000 more troops to its former colony, the Central African Republic as warnings of impending genocide continue to grow.
The former president of the country's economic and social council said:
The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (KLWCT) found former Israeli army general Amos Yaron and the state of Israel guilty of crimes against humanity and genocide.
The first direct talks between the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian rebels will commence on 22nd January, announced the United Nations on Monday.
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said that the aim would be to arrive as a transitional administration acceptable to both sides.
Ban's special envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi said,
The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, has defended the recently concluded deal with Iran, which would see an easing of sanctions the country in return for some concessions by Teheran on its nuclear programme.
Iranian officials met with six other world powers in Geneva to reach an agreement, during the fourth day of negotiations, on Tehran’s nuclear programme.
An influential group of Afghan elders has called for a security pact with the US to be signed by the end of this year.
The pact, which would allow US troops to remain in the country past 2014, is being delayed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who said he wants the US to bring peace to the country first.
A senior member of Congo's opposition was arrested on Sunday on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant, accusing him of interfering with the war crimes trial of the former presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba.
The Turkish Ambassador in Cairo has been expelled after Turkey’s Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for overthrown president Mohammad Morsi to be released from detention.
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.
