Paul Rusesabagina, a former hotelier, acclaimed for saving and sheltering more than 1,000 people at the Hotel des Mille Collines during the Rwanda genocide in 1994, was found guilty of terrorism in the Rwandan High Court and sentenced to 25 years in prison on Sept. 21, 2021. His incarceration has drawn mixed reactions, with many […]
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The week-long Zapad (West) live military drills, held every four years by Russia, ended on Sept. 16, 2021, at Mulino in the Novgorod of Russia. The Multilateral ‘Joint Strategic Exercise,’ held in Russia and Belarus, largely drew participation from the Commonwealth of Independent States (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan) with India, Mongolia, and […]
Humanitarian organizations and lawyers have urged Poland to allow a group of 32 Afghan refugees trapped between their border and that of Belarus for the past three weeks. The four women, 27 men, and one 15-year-old girl have been trapped in Usnarz Górny – a village in the Podlaskie Voivodship (province), in north-eastern Poland, according […]
