A Norwegian court has convicted a Rwandan for participating in the 1994 genocide in his home country and sentenced him to 21 years in prison.

French MPs have passed a measure that would make it a crime in France to deny that the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 amounted to a genocide.

KEITH ANDREWS, man of the match and scorer of that all important first goal in Tallinn on Friday, has revealed that the mood in the Irish camp afterwards bordered on the surreal.

A FRENCH appeals court rejected a Rwandan request to extradite alleged mass-killing mastermind Agathe Habyarimana, widow of the Rwandan president whose death sparked the 1994 genocide.

FORMER Ulster Volunteer Force leader Gusty Spence has died, aged 78.

The former UVF leader Gusty Spence has died at the age of 78.

A top Rwandan opposition figure is facing accusations of trying to recruit fighters to destabilise the country.

A draft UN report says the Rwandan army that ended the 1994 slaughter of more than 500,000 people retaliated with killings in Congo two years later that also could be classified as a genocide.

A top suspect wanted for orchestrating the killings of thousands of people in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide – including children, hospital patients, priests and even an elderly and revered African queen – has been captured, police said.

A former Rwandan government minister who tricked thousands of refugees into being slaughtered was jailed for 30 years today.

Rebel forces said they were pulling back from a fleeing Congo army today to allow peace talks.

IT is probably inevitable that we will be told that the Chinese are exploiting the Olympic Games for their own political purposes, as if the Americans, the Germans, the Russians, the British, or all the others had not done so already.

FRANCE yesterday accused Rwanda of making “unacceptable accusations” by alleging Paris played an active role in the 1994 genocide, but said it was still determined to mend damaged ties with Kigali.

A fourth man accused of playing a leading role in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 appeared briefly before a court in Britian today, and was remanded in custody.

A Catholic nun is beginning a 30-year jail sentence for helping militia kill hundreds of people hiding in a hospital during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, an official said today. Theophister Mukakibibi was sentenced by a court in Nairobi, Kenya, for helping Hutu militiamen to kill ethnic Tutsis seeking refuge from the slaughter in Butare hospital where she worked.

A RENOWNED Rwandan singer went on trial yesterday before a UN tribunal, accused of writing lyrics that incited the notorious 1994 genocide in Rwanda, in which 500,000 people were killed in just 100 days.

A man and a woman questioned about the murders of six men who were shot dead as they watched the 1994 World Cup in a pub were tonight released without charge.

A man and a woman were questioned today about the murders of six men who were shot dead as they watched the 1994 World Cup on television at a pub in Northern Ireland.

A man and a woman were being questioned today about the gunning down of six men as they watched the World Cup in a pub in the North 12 years ago.

Rwandan president Paul Kagame has criticised the Oscar-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda for not portraying his country's 1994 genocide accurately.

Grand Slam finalist in 31 years with his third straight five-set victory, a 6-4 5-7 6-3 4-6 6-3 triumph over fellow American Robby Ginepri today at the National Tennis Center.

THOSE who still advocate the ‘Bertiebowl’ over the redevelopment of dear old Lansdowne Road should take a trip from the centre of Istanbul out to the Ataturk Olympic Stadium, where tonight’s Champions’ League final between Liverpool and AC Milan will be played in front of 70,000 people.

Rwandan Hutu rebels operating in eastern Congo have executed, raped, beaten or kidnapped more than 1,500 civilians over the past year, according to a UN report released today.

More than a quarter of the field in next week’s Masters had their build-up further disrupted today when the BellSouth Classic in Atlanta was washed out for the second day running.

UN officials defended peacekeepers who killed up to 60 militiamen in a gunbattle in Congo, saying the international troops were acting in self-defence and protecting civilians who had been terrorised for years.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is today meeting with 11 African leaders in Tanzania to push for lasting peace in central Africa, where the past decade has seen millions die in wars, rebellions and a genocide.

Rwandans were voting today in their first presidential election since about 800,000 people were slaughtered in the 1994 genocide.

The treason trial of 22 white extremists accused of plotting to assassinate Nelson Mandela and overthrow the South African government opened in Pretoria today.

YOU might have expected Darren Clarke to have enough on his plate with the $5.5 million American Express World Championship over the next four days followed immediately

Leaders from around the continent hope today’s inauguration of the African Union will be the first step in bringing prosperity and good governance to the world’s poorest people.

Two Rwandan nuns were today found guilty in a landmark Belgian trial of war crimes during the 1994 genocide in their central African nation.