RWANDA: A court in France has convicted Philippe Hategekimana, a former Rwandan police officer, to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Mr Hategekimana’s crimes took place during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when Hutu militias killed hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and Hutus.

The prosecutors had described him as having played a central part in carrying out the killings.

UNESCO: The 193 members of Unesco looked set today to support the return of the United States to the UN cultural and scientific agency after a decade-long dispute sparked by the organisation’s move to include Palestine as a member.

The US announced earlier this month that it wanted to return, five years after it withdrew from the agency during the presidency of Donald Trump.

GREECE: Opposition leader Alexis Tsipras announced his decision today to step down after a crushing election defeat last weekend.

Mr Tsipras served as Greece’s prime minister from 2015 to 2019.  

In Sunday’s general election, Mr Tsipras’s Syriza party received just below 18 per cent of the vote while the winning New Democracy party topped 40 per cent. 

POLAND: Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki insisted today that his country would not be forced to accept European Union rules on migration, and he vowed to veto any plan that might force countries to take in refugees.

“An attack on Europe is underway. Europe’s borders are not secure. The safety of the inhabitants of our continent is at stake,” Mr Morawiecki said. 

He said that he would propose “a plan for secure borders” to EU leaders at a summit in Brussels.