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• Islamic State committed genocide in Iraq against Yazidis: report

  Islamic State militants committed genocide against Iraq's Yazidis in the north of the country and carried out crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes against other minorities, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said on Thursday.

• U.N. to hold off on separate Afghan bombing probe for now

  The United Nations said on Monday it would wait for the results of U.S., NATO and Afghan investigations into a deadly air strike on a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in Afghanistan before deciding whether to support an independent probe.

• Yemen says would join talks if Houthis publicly accept U.N. resolution

  Yemen's exiled government said on Tuesday it was ready to join U.N.-sponsored talks, but only if its Houthi adversaries publicly accepted a resolution calling on them to recognize the Yemeni president and quit Yemen's main cities.

• More than 200 feared dead in sinking of migrant boat

  Hopes faded of finding more survivors on Thursday from a shipwreck in which 200 migrants are feared drowned, as rescue ships were called to the aid of more migrant boats in the same area of the Mediterranean.

• As Armenia marks 1915 massacre, Berlin calls it genocide

  Armenia marked the centenary on Friday of a mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks with a simple flower-laying ceremony attended by foreign leaders as Germany became the latest country to respond to its calls for recognition that it was genocide.

• Life sentence for Rwanda's genocide-era justice minister upheld

  Rwanda's high court on Friday upheld the life sentence of the s genocide-era justice minister, who was convicted six years ago for her role in the 1994 slaughter that killed 800,000 people.

• Congo fails to meet U.N. deadline to remove generals linked to abuses

  Democratic Republic of Congo failed to meet a U.N. deadline to remove two generals accused of rights abuses and will now be formally notified that peacekeepers will not support its offensive against Rwandan rebels, a U.N. official said on Saturday.

• Rwanda suspends BBC's local radio service over genocide documentary

  Rwanda has suspended the BBC's local radio service after the broadcaster aired a documentary that questioned official accounts of the 1994 genocide, the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority said on Friday.

• Ukraine prosecutor opens criminal case against Russian officials

  Ukrainian state prosecutors said on Tuesday they had opened a criminal investigation against a Russian law enforcement agency, accusing it of supporting separatist and "terrorist" groups in the east of the country.

• Rwanda court's forgotten men pose challenge to international justice

  Justin Mugenzi was legally cleared of any role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide. But an oversight in the international justice system means he remains a virtual prisoner in a United Nations safe house in the eastern African state of Tanzania.

• Beatrice Munyenyezi, African Who Lied About Her Role in Rwanda Genocide Faces Deportation From New Hampshire After Conviction

  Beatrice Munyenyezi, a Rwandan woman living in New Hampshire, was convicted on Thursday of lying about her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, as a way to obtain U.S. citizenship. She now could be sent back to her native country.