A US jury has found a Rwandan woman guilty of lying about her role in the country's 1994 genocide, leading to her citizenship being stripped.

43-year-old Beatrice Munyenyezi, who was on trial for lying on US government citizenship forms, was accused by the prosecution of having a "front-row seat" to the slaughter of Tutsis who killed and ordered rapes, playing an active role in the genocide.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Malian government to investigate and prosecute soldiers accused of committing torture, summary executions and other atrocities in the fight against Islamist militants in the country’s north.

The HRW report said its investigations had found that Malian troops had carried out several abuses against members of the Tuareg, Arab and Fula communities.

The Indonesian army has claimed that eight of its soldiers were killed in attacks by armed men in Papua.

Army spokesperson Jansen Simanjuntak told the BBC that two attacks in the district Puncak Jaya saw the soldiers ambushed with guns. Two of the attackers were also reported to have been killed.

The Zambian government has seized a Chinese coal mine, after it revoked the mine’s license over safety concerns.

The Zambian mining minister Yamfwa Mukanga said that the government would continue to run the Collum Coal mine until “suitable investor was found”.

Syria's opposition council has said that it is willing to negotiate a peace deal with the USA and Russia, on the condition that President Bashar al-Assad is not party to any settlement.

In a draft document, the opposition said:

The British prime minister David Cameron described the massacre of Indians at the city of Amritsar during colonial times was "deeply shameful", however he stopped short of a public apology.

The Prime Minister of Tunisia, Hamadi Jebali resigned on Tuesday after failing to form a new government of non-partisan technocrats.

Speaking at a news conference Jebali said:

"I vowed that if my initiative did not succeed, I would resign and ... I have already done so,"

A French soldier has been killed fighting rebels in Mali, announced the French president Francois Hollande. It is the second fatality since France deployed troops last month.

During his visit to Greece, Hollande said:

EU ministers on Monday agreed to renew sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which includes an arms embargo to all sides.

Britain had earlier demanded that the embargo be lifted, but the EU instead agreed only to allow 'non-lethal' aid and 'technical assistance' to flow to the opposition.

Hezbollah forces have attacked three Syrian villages near the Lebanese border according to the Syrian opposition.

The Lebanese Shia group has always denied sending fighters to assist Bashar al-Assad’s forces.

The European Union eased sanctions on Zimbabwe in acknowledgment of the government's political reforms, whilst also pledging to lift sanctions on a state run Zimbabwe diamond mining company if the country holds fair elections.

UN investigators said on Monday that they had identified Syrian leaders as suspected war criminals, who should face the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The UN Security Council was urged by the investigators to take urgent action to hold people accountable for violatons committed by both sides, including murder and torture, in the civil war.