How Russia and Iran’s illicit oil travels the high seas
By AMERICA HERNANDEZ
07/11/2022 09:30 AM EDT
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RWANDAN GENOCIDE TRIAL DRAWS TO A CLOSE: Criminal defense lawyers in Paris will today present their closing arguments for why 78-year-old Laurent Bucyibaruta, former police chief of the southern Rwandan province Gikongoro, should not be found guilty of genocide, complicity in genocide and complicity in crimes against humanity over the 1994 killing of some 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus over 100 days.
Bucyibaruta is the highest-ranking official to be tried abroad — outside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda — and denies the charges. On Friday prosecutors acknowledged “this man did not kill anyone,” but nonetheless requested a sentence of life imprisonment, with a verdict expected Tuesday.
SRI LANKA IN TURMOIL AMID LEADERS’ RESIGNATIONS: Hordes of protestors who broke into the palace of Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa — and set Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s residence on fire — have refused to leave until the leaders formally resign, which is expected to happen Wednesday.
The tired, angry and hungry swam in the garden pool, sat down to tea and spread out on beds in the palatial digs of President Rajapaksa, whose family, for the past two decades, has ruled the country — straight into the ground, many allege.
Last week the debt-logged South Asian island nation...
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