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Protests In Rwanda As Karenzi Karake Arrested In London

Some 200 people gathered outside the British High Commission in Rwanda to protest at the arrest of intelligence chief Karenzi Karake in London.

Gen Karake, 54, was detained at Heathrow Airport on Saturday, accused of ordering massacres in the wake of the 1994 Rwanda genocide.

Protestors have threatened not to end the demonstration in the capital, Kigali, until the general is released.
The Rwandan government has branded the arrest an «outrage».

Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwanda’s Foreign Minister condemned Gen Karake’s detention on Tuesday, saying that «Western solidarity in demeaning Africans is unacceptable».

«We are here to stand in solidarity with our hero, who was among the people who stopped genocide in this country,» Herbert Muhire, a protest leader told The Associated Press news agency.
William Gelling, the UK’s High Commissioner to Rwanda, addressed the crowd briefly.
«All I can say is that this was a legal decision as you understand, on behalf of the Spanish legal authorities.
«The UK is a very close partner with Rwanda,» he said, as quoted by AP.

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Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir Leaves South Africa Escaping Arrest

A South African court has criticised the government for letting Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir leave the country despite an International Criminal Court arrest warrant.
The court asked the public prosecutor to investigate if the government had broken the law.

Mr Bashir denies the ICC charge he committed war crimes in Darfur.

A court had ordered him to stay in South Africa while it ruled whether he could be arrested.
He had gone to South Africa for an African Union summit and the government argued he enjoyed diplomatic immunity.

He left the summit early, before the court could rule on this issue.
Judge Dunstan Mlambo suggested there was reason to believe that the South African government had committed a crime by ignoring the court order.
The judge’s three questions:
He gave the government 24 hours to explain why and how Mr Bashir was allowed to leave the country.
The judge explained that the wider consequences could be huge — saying the state cannot function if it ignores court orders.
«If the state… does not abide by court orders, the democratic edifice will crumble stone-by-stone until it collapses,» he said.

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Cannes Lion Event; Google Exec Dies

A Google executive has been killed in an accident in Cannes, France, the search company has confirmed.

According to reports, he was a member of the firm’s UK team.

He was understood to have been attending the Cannes Lions event, an annual gathering of people in the advertising and marketing industry.

In a statement, Google said: «We lost a loved and respected member of our team. We are deeply saddened and our thoughts are with his family and friends.»

No further details about the employee have been made public out of respect for his family.

More Than Three Million Refugees In Iraq Due To IS Conflict

More than three million people have been displaced by the conflict in Iraq since the start of 2014, the UN says.

A statement by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said two-thirds were from the provinces of Anbar, Nineveh and Salahuddin.

The regions have been hardest hit by fighting between Islamic State (IS) militants and pro-government forces.
More than 276,000 people were displaced over the past two months amid fighting over Anbar’s capital, Ramadi.
The city fell to IS in mid-May after the Iraqi army withdrew.

Since then, pro-government forces led by Shia militias have launched a major operation to regain Ramadi and drive the jihadist group out of Anbar.

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Buckingham Palace Overdue To Be Decorated

Buckingham Palace is in need of maintenance work costing £150m. Some rooms haven’t been decorated since before the Queen ascended the throne but how have they fared, asks Justin Parkinson.

Labour’s Clement Attlee was prime minister. Wolverhampton Wanderers won the FA Cup. Nato was created.
And 1949 was also the last time the principal rooms of Buckingham Palace were re-decorated.
The central London building, which had suffered nine direct hits during World War Two, was in need of a spruce-up. According to the monarchy’s website, «very few changes» had happened to it during George VI’s reign, from 1936 to 1952.

The 19 state rooms remain remarkably intact 66 years after the last significant work. Pictures show the White Drawing Room, often used for photographic portraits of the Royal Family, looking in a very similar state in 1947, 1993 and 2011.
«Most people decorate their houses, mainly for fashion reasons, every 10 years or so,» says historian Ellen Leslie, «but this isn’t what the Royal Family are into when it comes to Buckingham Palace. They want it to keep looking the same.»

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