The Turkish Foreign Ministry today, condemned a United States Senate resolution that deemed the massacres of a speculated 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 a genocide, reports Reuters.

“We reject this attempt at political exploitation that distorts history and law and we condemn those who led this prejudiced initiative,” the ministry said in a statement.

Protesters that had occupied Taiwan’s parliament for 3 weeks, left parliament today and vowed to continue their campaign against a trade pact with China through other means, reports Reuters.

The leader of the parliament sit-in, Miles Lin, committing to spread the movement across Taiwain, said,

The United States Senate adopted a resolution today calling on the Senate to commemorate the Armenian genocide, reports the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

The Executive Director of the ANCA, Aram Hamparian, urging Obama to acknowledge the Turkish cover up of genocide, said,

French courts, today, detained a Rwandan genocide suspect who was accused of taking part in killings of Tutsis in the western town of Kibuye, reports Agence France-Presse.

The arrest of the suspect, Claude Muhaymana, comes after France cancelled a trip to Rwanda to attend memorial due to Rwandan accusations of French complicity in the 1994 atrocities.

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South Sudanese paramilitary and government officials, said today that threats of further US sanctions did not worry them as their sides were not responsible for escalating the conflict situation in the region.

The South Sudanese Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman, Mawien Makol Arik, deemed sanctions unnecessary.

The United Nations Security Council will authorise an strengthened peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic, this week, reports the Voice of America.

A resolution calling for the deployment of 10,000 soldiers and 1,500 police officers is expected to be  passed by the UN Security Counc

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) outlined its commitment to protecting and aiding conflict affected civilians in South Sudan.

In  statement released today, the mission expressed concerns over congested displaced civilians and their living conditions.

The mission went on to pledge to work towards providing shelter and improving water and sanitation facilities to mitigate public health risks.

The US Secretary of State John Kerry, today, warned of tougher sanctions should Russia fail to withdraw it’s presence from Ukraine, reports the Associated Press.

Speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry said,

“What we see from Russia is an illegal and illegitimate effort to destabilize a sovereign state and create a contrived crisis with paid operatives across an international boundary.”

The United Nations Human Rights Chief, Navi Pillay, addressing the UN Security council today, outlined that Syrian government crimes outweighed crimes committed by opposition armed forces.

Drawing upon findings from the Syrian Commission of Inquiry, Pillay highlighted that although both parties had been found accountable for crimes, the two could not to be compared, reports Reuters.

At a press conference after the Security Council briefing, Pillay said,