Leon Mugesera was charged with plotting genocide, incitement and distribution of arms on Thursday, for his part in the 1994 genocide.

Mugesera was recently deported, after losing his fight against deportation, which started over 16 years ago.

Stating that the Syrian president's fall was "inevitable", the White House urged countries to consider carefully their stance on Syria, as a draft resolution was debated at the UN Security Council.

The White House's spokesperson, Jay Carney, speaking Monday, said,

The UN Security Council debated a draft resolution on Syria and the Assad regime's repression on Monday.

The resolution calls for member states to take steps to prevent the flow of arms in Syria, to demand an immediate end to all violence and to call on President Assad to hand power over to a deputy.

French senators have rallied against a bill that criminalises the denial of genocide of the Armenians by Turkey, forcing it to be referred to the country’s highest court.

Mitt Romney, the leading candidate in the Republican race to be the next President of the United States, has released a statement vowing to hold Sudanese leaders accountable for atrocities in the region.

The UN’s nuclear watchdog has praised ‘good’ talks with Iran during a visit to discuss its controversial nuclear programme.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have said the Iranians were determined to address all issues.

"But of course there is still a lot of work to be done and so we have planned another trip in the very near future," the IAEA’s deputy director, Hermann Nackaerts told reporters.

The deportation of a man who is suspected of inciting genocide from Canada last week is expected to pave the way for genocide suspects to be deported to and tried in Rwanda.

Speaking at the annual African Union summit, the secretary general of the UN, Ban Ki Moon, urged African countries to uphold the rights of civil, political, economic, social and cultural institutions, in order to boost stability and development.

From the summit, held in the capital of Ethopia, Addis Ababa, Ban Ki Moon said, 

Iran has threatened to hit back at EU sanctions with its own embargo.

The move would pre-empt the EU ban on oil imports due to take effect in July and would hit struggling EU economies hard.

Mohammad Karim Abedi, a member of Iran’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, said a ban may last up to 15 years.

The prime minister of Norway has apologised for the arrest and deportation of Jews to Germany in 1942.

Speaking at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Oslo on Friday, prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg conveyed the nation's "deep regrets that this could have happened on Norwegian soil".

A special session was held at the UN on the 27th January, Holocaust Remembrance Day, or International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.

Speaking at the event, the UN secretary general, Ban Ki Moon said,

Rights groups in Libya have claimed that torture of suspected Gaddafi loyalists by Libyan militias is widespread.

Medicins San Frontiers, a medical charity, has ceased all operations in the country after it was asked to treat torture victims, sometimes between instances of torture.

Calls for the secession of South Yemen have resurfaced and are on the increase as Yemen's political unrest continues.

Graffiti calling for secession, such as "Freedom for South. Aden Get Up", is cropping up across the south, along side prominent displays of the old flag of South Yemen.

Guatemala’s former dictator, Efrain Rios Montt, has been charged with genocide and crimes against humanity by Judge Carol Patricia Flores on Thursday.

Rios Montt ruled the country in 1982-83, after a military coup. A 36 -year civil war with leftist guerrillas, which ended in 1996, cost more than 200,000 lives, of which 93% were caused by state and paramilitary forces, according to a UN report.