Iraqi Kurds have launched their own .krd domain name for an independent cyber region for Kurdistan, reports Reuters.

The .krd domain name was granted in 2013 by the US based non-profit organisation which regulates the domains, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

"Those who imprisoned us within these geographical boundaries do not have the same leverage in cyberspace. In the internet we choose our own borders," the individual responsible for securing international recognition of the .krd domain, Hiwa Afandi told Reuters.

A Bosnian Serb suspeced of carrying out crimes against humanity is to be extradited to Sarajevo to face charges after a court in France ruled in favour of hte extradition.

The man, Radomir Susjnar, was arrested in Paris in April 2014. He was a member of a Bosnian Serb paramilitary group that was responsible for the murder of 59 Bosnian Muslims in 1992 in Visegrad and has been accused of incarcerating the victims inside a house before setting it alight.

Nigeria's military secretly buried more than 300 Shia Muslims in a mass grave, according to officials, prompting Amnesty International to call for an investigation.

Officials in the state of Kaduna told an inquiry that soldiers took bodies from a morgue to a bush site following a crackdown on a pro-Iranian sect, the BBC reports.

The raid in December followed accusations the sect had tried to assassinate the army chief, which it denies.

South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar has returned to his country as part of a peace deal struck with President Salva Kiir's government.

His spokesman told the BBC that Mr Machar was now at rebel military headquarters in the eastern town of Pagak. the first time he has entere the country in two years.

He is expected in the capital Juba next week to resume the post of vice-president as part of the deal finalised last year.

Officials at UK immigration have been hacking into the phones of asylum seekers over the past three years, The Independent reported this week.

The officials have been doing through an amendment to the 1997 Police Act, which now allows them to conduct "property interference, including interference with equipment." Specifically, this reportedly allows the installation of listening devices into the homes or cars of refugees, as well as at detention centres, the paper reported.

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, marking International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda, on Tuesday stressed the need to prevent genocide by fighting "genocide ideology".

“It is essential that Governments, the judiciary and civil society stand firm against hate speech and those who incite division and violence,” Mr Ban said whilst addressing a remembrance event at the UN General Assembly.

A new political party was formed on Sunday in Hong Kong, pledging to push for an end to China's encroachment on the region's autonomy and to advocate for self-determination.

The party, Demosisto, is formed by the student activists who led the Occupy movement of 2014, referred to as the Umbrella movement.

In its manifesto the party pledged to hold a referendum in ten years allowing residents to determine their own fate from 2047.

Whilst the party's secretary, Joshua Wong, did not himself back independence, he stressed that independence should be listed as an option during the referendum.