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.

The report they wrote, which was presented to the UN Human Rights Council last month, said the investigators had "abundant evidence of gross human rights violations" and accused Burundi's government of having a role in the violence.

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 Rohingya, who are mostly stateless and are subject to severe restrictions on their movements, make up the majority of population in the northern part of the Rakhine State.

The Saudi-led coalition has been accused of carrying out a “genocide” in Yemen, after an airstrike on a funeral killed at least 140 people.

Mohammed Abdul-Salam, a spokesperson for the Yemeni opposition government in Sana'a said the airstrike was an act of "genocide"."The silence of the United Nations and the international community is the munition of the murderers," he said. "Those murderers will not escape divine justice."

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.

Leopold Munyakazi, a former university professor, is accused of organising night raids during the genocide, where some 800,000 people were killed. In one case, Mr Munyakazi is accused of personally shooting dead a man named Ugirashebuja Felicien Kirwa during the massacres.

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 announcement was made by Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin after Guterres received 13 "encourage" votes, and two "no opinion" votes in the sixth informal poll conducted of the 15 UN Security Council member states. Guterres was the favourite in the initial 5 informal polls as well. 

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.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid announced on his official Twitter account that the group had capture several military checkpoints in a “massive operation”.

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. 

Responding to the result, Mr Santos, who had previously said there was no plan B, said, "I won't give up."

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).

At least 400 civilians, including children have been killed in this week’s fighting according to the United Nations, as a ceasefire between warring sides broke down rapidly.