News of the day from across the globe, Dec. 30
Burkina Faso’s newly inaugurated President Roch Marc Christian Kabore says his election after a chaotic transition is a triumph for “democracy and freedom.”
A former prime minister and speaker of parliament, Kabore left the former ruling party in January 2014, when ousted President Blaise Compaore tried to amend the Constitution to seek another term in office.
2 Foiled attack: A husband and wife have been convicted of planning a large-scale bombing of civilian targets in London to mark the 10th anniversary of the July 7, 2005, attacks on the city’s transit system.
Prosecutors said Rehman was only a few days away from finishing work on a bomb capable of causing mass casualties.
An Egyptian court has confirmed a prison term for a former TV host and a researcher in Islamic heritage found guilty of “defaming religious symbols, imams and senior scholars.”
Before his show was suspended in April, Behery argued that historic Islamic texts, some upheld and deemed sacred by Al-Azhar, the preeminent seat of Sunni Islamic scholarship, contain passages that promote extremism.
Europe’s border guard agency Frontex says it is deploying 293 officers and 15 vessels to the Greek islands in response to a request from Athens for assistance in managing an “unprecedented migratory pressure.”
5 Genocide conviction: A German court sentenced a former Rwandan mayor to life in prison on Tuesday, convicting him after a second trial of participating in genocide for helping organize the killing of some 400 members of the Tutsi minority in 1994.
Onesphore Rwabukombe, 58, was convicted in 2014 of being an accessory to genocide and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Rwabukombe, a member of the Hutu majority who was mayor of Muvumba, was accused of ordering the attack at church grounds.
Russian investigators on Tuesday filed an indictment against four men accused of involvement in the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a brazen killing which sent shock waves among the opposition earlier this year.
Nemtsov, a top opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was shot late at night on Feb. 27 as he was walking across the bridge just outside the Kremlin.
Five Chechen men have been arrested on charges of involvement in the killing, but it has remained unclear who ordered the attack.