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French judicial investigators have opened a full-scale inquiry into allegations of complicity in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, an official at the public prosecutor's office said on Monday. BNP Paribas bank, accused by non-govemental organisations of complicity over a transfer of $1.3 million to an arms dealer, said the move was expected and not a surprise. "This in no way constitutes a , ...ادامه مطلب

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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Wednesday said Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election was "good news" for France. "I repeat, the election of Donald Trump is good news for our country," said Le Pen, who will be the anti-immigration National Front's candidate in France's 2017 presidential election. Le Pen, 48, was one of the first French politicians to react to Trump's stunning victory. “Congratulations to the new president of the United States Donald Trump and to the free American people!” she said [see below]. In her brief remarks, Le Pen said a Trump White House would assure that the sweeping Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and EU would be rejected. Expects improved relations with Russia She added that "more generally, wild globalisation" would be tamed, and she predicted that inteational relations would improve, "notably with Russia". Le Pen said Trump would rein in "the warlike interventions that are the source of the, ...ادامه مطلب

Rwandan President Paul Kagame criticised France on Monday after French investigators reopened a investigation into the 1994 assassination of the Rwandan president, a killing that triggered the country’s genocide. “The judicial system of Rwanda is not subordinate to France or France’s interests,” Kagame told a cheering audience of judges, senior military officers and govement officials at an official judicial function. “It should be France in the dock being tried, not anybody in Rwanda and not Rwandans.” Rwanda’s former chief of army staff Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, now in exile, has accused Kagame of being linked to the shooting down of the plane carrying president Habyarimana Juvenal, the president of Burundi and a French air crew. Nyamwasa made the accusations against Kagame in a widely reported trial in 2012, two years after an attempt to murder Nyamwasa in South Africa. Kagame says the plane was shot down by Juvenal’s own supporters who disapproved of a peace deal ,rwanda,rwandan genocide,rwanda map,rwanda flag,rwanda news,rwandair,rwanda language,rwanda capital,rwanda population,rwanda movie ...ادامه مطلب