UN investigators say there is strong evidence that crimes against humanity have been committed in Burundi. Their report details killings, torture and rape, which they say have been committed largely by government forces - but also by opposition groups. Burundi's ambassador to the UN said the report was part of an "international conspiracy" against the country.

Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus on Friday condemned the bombing of a mosque in northern Syria as a “war crime”. An airstrike on a mosque in the village of Al-Jina, located west of Aleppo city towards the border with Idlib province, killed 58 people on Thursday night. “This is a crime against humanity, this is a war crime,” Kurtulmus told reporters in the northwestern province of Canakkale. “Bombing civilians, people in the mosque, and a house of worship is unacceptable.”

Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a Minnesota man exposed by The Associated Press as a former commander in an SS-led unit that burned Polish villages and killed civilians in World War II, prosecutors said Monday. Prosecutor Robert Janicki said evidence gathered over years of investigation into U.S. citizen Michael K. confirmed "100 percent" that he was a commander of a unit in the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion.

The Rainbow Nation's decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court highlighted its increasingly shaky support from governments across the continent, but their reasons are more complex than headline-grabbing claims the court is racist.

The bill "will have grave implications for the national security of the United States."