Refuting the allegation of the ongoing genocide against Rohingyas in Rakhine, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi tells the UN’s highest court that Muslims are not part of the conflict.

The Pentagon announces it is temporarily suspending operational training for Saudi military students in the United States following a shooting rampage last week by a Saudi air force officer.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi rules out the allegation of ongoing genocide or genocidal intent at Rohingya villages in Rakhine of Myanmar.

Six people, including a police officer and two suspected gunmen, are killed in an hours-long shootout that unfolded near a cemetery and a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey, police say.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was accused on Monday of grabbing a journalist’s phone and putting it into his pocket to avoid looking at an image of a boy sleeping on a hospital floor.

An Algerian court yesterday sentenced two former prime ministers to long jail terms in the first of a series of high-profile corruption trials launched after longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned in the face of mass protests in April.

Fearing the volcano could erupt again, search parties were unable to set foot on New Zealand’s White Island for eight people still missing yesterday, as police raised the death toll to six from the eruption a day earlier.

Toxic haze blanketed Sydney yesterday triggering a chorus of smoke alarms to ring across the city and forcing school children inside, as “severe” weather conditions fuelled deadly bush blazes along Australia’s east coast.

A US Justice Department report concluded Monday that political bias did not drive an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election -- rebutting President Donald Trump’s claims that the FBI illegally spied on his campaign.

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman opened a Gulf Arab summit yesterday by calling for regional unity to confront Iran and secure energy supplies and maritime channels.

Bigger people and growing populations could mean the world may soon face such an increase in demand for food, suppliers may be unable to keep up, scientists have warned.

UN climate negotiations in Madrid remained bogged down in the fine print of the Paris treaty rulebook, out-of-sync with a world demanding action to forestall the ravages of global warming.

Already facing the threat of habitat destruction, hundreds of plant and animal species are now under further pressure from manmade climate change, the IUCN yesterday said in its updated “Red List of Threatened Species”.

Rescue planes and ships yesterday searched the open sea between the southern tip of South America and Antarctica for a Chilean Air Force plane that went missing with 38 people aboard.

A gunman killed himself yesterday after shooting dead six patients at a hospital in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava, in what the premier has called “an immense tragedy”.

“Genocide” was used for the first time within a legal framework at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi officials after World War II over the deaths of six million Jews in the Holocaust unleashed by Adolf Hitler’s Germany.

Eight Nobel Peace laureates including Muhammad Yunus have asked Aung San Suu Kyi to publicly acknowledge crimes including genocide committed against Rohingya people in Myanmar.

Shirin Huq, a Bangladeshi rights activist present at the International Court of Justice hearing in The Hague, says the atmosphere in the courtroom is electric, as the Gambian team presents their case against the Union of Myanmar under Article 9 of the Genocide Convention.

A gunman has killed six people at a hospital waiting room in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava before fleeing and fatally shooting himself in the head, police said.

From squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh, Rohingya who fled a brutal Myanmar military crackdown are calling on Aung San Suu Kyi to acknowledge the mass atrocities as she defends her country against genocide charges at the UN's top court.