The Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, is being questioned in police custody today, over the kidnap and murder of an alleged informant by the IRA during the Troubles, reports The Guardian.

Adams volunteered himself to the Police Service of Northern Island for questioning  after being accused of being involved in the IRA attack.

In a statement made, before entering the police station in Antrim town, Adams said,

The United Nations warned today that that South Sudan was on the brink of genocide and large scale famine, reports The Times.

The UN special envoy for the prevention of genocide-, Adama Dieng, pledging to protect civilians from genocide, said,

“We owe a pledge to take all possible measures within our power to protect populations from another Rwanda, there is no excuse for inaction.”

The Palestinian president, in a statement released by the Palestinian official news agency yesterday, called the Holocaust ‘the most heinous crime in modern history’, reports The Guardian.

Mahmoud Abbas’ statement, which coincided with the Holocaust remembrance day, said,

“The Holocaust is a reflection of the concept of ethnic discrimination and racism which the Palestinians strongly reject and act against.”

At least 22 people including 3 workers from the medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), were killed in an attack on a town in the Central African Republic today, officials said on Sunday.

The United States secretary of state, John Kerry, concluded in a closed door meeting today, that  a two state solution looked to be the best way to solve the tensions between the Palestinian and Israeli communities, reports The Guardian.

Reports suggest that, expressing frustration at the failing peace-talks between the two parties, Kerry said,

Leaders of the G7 major economies agreed to intensify sanctions against Russia this weekend, reports The Guardian.

A statement released by several heads of states and senior officials, including David Cameron, Barack Obama and Angela Merkal, and expressed ‘deep concern at the continued efforts by separatists backed by Russia to destabilise eastern Ukraine.’

The Palestinian Authority today reaffirmed its commitment to seek membership of United Nations bodies and international conventions.

A statement by the central council said that the it “affirms the need for Palestinian leadership to continue membership of UN agencies and international conventions, under the Palestinian plan that was adopted.”

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The Kenyan president said that he would not let the conflict in South Sudan descend into genocide, reports Reuters today.

“We especially reject the possibility that we are creeping into genocide again in our region. We shall not stand by and allow it to happen,” Uhuru Kenyatta said, in a statement made late on Friday.