A British court has freed Rwanda’s intelligence chief Karenzi Karake, officials said on Monday, after he was arrested in June on a warrant issued in Spain where he was wanted over alleged reprisal killings after the 1994 genocide. Officials did not immediately provide further details but a fuller statement from Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service was expected shortly. Rwanda had condemned as an “outrage” the arrest of Karake.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabweans failed in their responsibility to protect a popular lion named Cecil that was killed by an American in an allegedly illegal hunt, President Robert Mugabe said Monday.
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s foreign minister said Monday his North Korean counterpart has invited Thai businesses to invest in his country because Thais are trustworthy and don’t interfere with matters that don’t involve them.
Police say the man opened fire on them during protests one year after Michael Brown’s death.
Prominent Syrian rights defender Mazen Darwish has been released after more than three years in prison pending a verdict in his case at the end of this month, his wife said Monday. “He has been freed ahead of a final verdict in his case on August 31,” Darwish’s wife Yara Bader told AFP. The leading journalist and rights activist was arrested in February 2012 along with two colleagues from his
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The head of Hungary’s immigration office says it has received 110,000 asylum requests so far in 2015, a development that has prompted the government to start building a fence on the border with Serbia.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea restarted propaganda broadcasts across the border with rival North Korea on Monday for the first time in 11 years in retaliation for the North allegedly planting land mines last week that maimed two South Korean soldiers.
NEW YORK (AP) — From the football field to the broadcast booth, Frank Gifford was a star. And a winner.
Police say the man opened fire on them during protests one year after Michael Brown’s death.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea restarted propaganda broadcasts across the border with rival North Korea on Monday for the first time in 11 years in retaliation for the North allegedly planting land mines last week that maimed two South Korean soldiers.