Saddam Hussein’s cousin and two other former regime officials were convicted Sunday of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to hang for the brutal crackdown that killed up to 180,000 Kurdish civilians and guerrillas two decades ago.

Five UN peacekeepers were killed by a car bomb in southern Lebanon on Sunday, further rattling security as another 11 people died in fighting with Islamists in the north.

Israel agreed on Sunday to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ new government, a move Hamas dismissed as “bribery” to fuel tensions with Islamists controlling Gaza.