The United Nations said it would be forced to shut down half its aid efforts in Iraq unless a new set of funds were established for the region.

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, Lisa Grande, warned that the recent intensifying of Islamic State insurgents, could trigger a worsening humanitarian crisis,.

The Kurdistan Regional Government’s Representative to the USA said the Yazidis in Iraq have faced “nothing but genocide” from Islamic State militants, after mass killings and expulsions from their historic homeland in Iraq.

Speaking to the Huffington Post, Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman said "What happened to the Yazidis is nothing but genocide." "Anybody who denies that, I think, is just using political maneuvering, which is shameful and despicable in my book," she added.

Detailing the plight of the Yazidis, including the enslavement of women and children by Islamic State, Ms Rahman said, "It's actually just so horrific to think that today in the 21st century, this still goes on -- that there are people who do the selling and that there are people who do the buying."

"Genocide internationally has legal obligations on everybody," she added. "All of us, internationally, by law, are obliged to prevent genocide."

Colombia’s port city of Buenaventura was left without power on Sunday after FARC militants destroyed an electrical tower, reports Agence France Presse.

The Colombian government has blamed FARC for the attack, which left Colombia’s largest port and 400,000 people without power.

Myanmar criticised claims by a group of Nobel laureates last week that Rohingya Muslims in the country are facing genocide.

Speaking at a conference in Oslo last week, several Nobel laureates including South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi and former East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said the situation of the Rohingya in Myanmar was "nothing less than genocide."

Six world powers agreed on a UN mechanism that would restore sanctions on Iran if it breaks terms of a future nuclear deal, reports Reuters.

The US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China agreed on a deal that allows any easing of UN sanctions to be automatically reversible if Iran breached any terms of the agreements it committed to.

The UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, warned called on Burundian officials to work to prevent ethnic violence after a two day visit to the region.

A statement issued on Adama Dieng’s visit, said he urged “Burundian parties to use their influence to prevent any action that could increase the risk of violence against individuals or groups on the basis of their identity, including political affiliation, religious and ethnic identity.

The Rwandan government has ordered an indefinite suspension of all BBC broadcasts in the country after the airing of a controversial documentary on the 1994 genocide, which has led to accusations of genocide denial.

The Rwandan public regulatory body, which had recently launched an investigation into the documentary, said the decision was made based "on the resolutions made by the commission of inquiry that was set up by the Rwandan government to investigate allegations of genocide denial and revisionism against the BBC in the new documentary produced by BBC journalist, Jane Corbin".

The documentary, “Rwanda's Untold Story”, contained allegations that current President Paul Kagame and his then Rwandan Patriotic Front armed organisation shot down and killed then Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana, sparking the genocide which killed some 800,000 people.

The Democratic Humanist Centre party (CDH) expelled their deputy leader for refusing to call the mass killing of Armenians in 1915 by the Ottoman Empire genocide.

Mahinur Özdemir refusal to recognise the killings as genocide “is contrary to the party’s values”, said a party statement. “Recognition of the Genocide is not an ambiguous issue and demands total clarity," said the CDH adding that Ms Özdemir "does not share this fundamental commitment of CDH."

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 order was signed by the US Secretary of State john Kerry, removed Cuba from a list which holds Iran, Syria and Sudan.

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.

Mr Sommer, now 93 years old, was convicted in absentia in Italy, over the killing of 560 civilians in the village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in August 1944, as the Nazis retreated from the region.

He currently resides at a nursing home in Hamburg-Volksdorf.