Félicien Kabuga, 91, was accused of encouraging and bankrolling the mass killing of Rwanda’s Tutsi minority. His trial began in 2022, nearly three decades after the 100-day massacre that left 800,000 dead. In 2023, the judges declared him unfit to continue standing trial because he had dementia and said they would establish a procedure to …
CANNES, France, May 16 (Reuters) – Austrian director Marie Kreutzer recalled on Saturday it was difficult to make her Cannes Film Festival entry “Gentle Monster,” a family drama about the fallout from an investigation into child sexual abuse images that offers no easy answers. “I could feel that everywhere, when I went somewhere with the …
BUCHAREST, May 16 (Reuters) – An unexploded projectile was discovered on a property in southeastern Romania near the European Union and NATO member’s border with Ukraine on Saturday, its defence ministry said. Romania shares a 650-km (400-mile) land border with Ukraine. Russian drones attacking Ukraine’s ports on the Danube river have repeatedly breached its airspace …
SAO PAULO, May 16 (Reuters) – A second-round runoff in October between Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro would result in a draw, the latest Datafolha poll released on Saturday indicated. • According to the poll, a second-round runoff between Lula and Flavio, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, …
THE HAGUE, May 16 (Reuters) – Lucien Kabuga, a suspect in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, has died in custody, a U.N. court said on Saturday. He was 93. Kabuga was arrested in France in 2020 after more than two decades on the run and extradited to The Hague. He was later ruled unfit to stand …
France’s Pasteur Institute said it has fully sequenced the Andes virus detected in a French passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship and found it matched viruses already known in South America, with no evidence so far of new characteristics that would make it more transmissible or more dangerous. “The analyzed virus corresponds to the …
Walt Disney World is closing its Star Wars-themed hotel one year after the space adventure attraction opened in Florida. Disney announced the closing of Halcyon on its website late Thursday, saying the final guest stay will be September 30. Anyone who previously booked a stay for after September 30 should contact Disney to modify their …
By Sergio Goncalves and Miguel Pereira LISBON, May 16 (Reuters) – Thousands of teachers marched through central Lisbon on Saturday to protest against the centre-right government, demanding higher pay, faster career progression and better working conditions. The protest was organised by the FENPROF teachers’ union, which accused the government of ignoring concerns over low wages, …
TUNIS, May 16 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Tunisians protested in the capital Tunis on Saturday against President Kais Saied, accusing him of undermining freedoms and presiding over a worsening economic and social crisis. The protest was held under the slogan: “The people are hungry and prisons are full”. Demonstrators called for an end to one-man …
TULA, Mexico (AP) — When bombs fell from the sky and bullets ricocheted off her concrete floors, 74-year-old María Cabrera and her family fled into the night-cloaked mountains of central Mexico with only the clothes on their backs. A week later, Cabrera picks through the charred scraps of her life, salvaging pots, woven cloths and …