Rwanda

Trouble is brewing over Grace Hightower’s coffee company. We’re told that her husband, Robert De Niro — who is a major investor in the firm — is steamed because the 5-year-old Grace Hightower & Coffees of Rwanda brand is turning into a money pit.

The Greek-Canadian Senator Leo Housakos delivered a speech in the Canadian Senate about the Genocide of the Greeks of Pontos from 1916 to 1923 and the need to be recognized by the Canadian government.

There are practically no areas where we don't enjoy dense and excellent cooperation, but this does not mean there is no room for deepening relations, Austria's Ambassador to Bulgaria, H.E. Roland Hauser, has told Novinite.

A United Nations court on Jan. 31 ordered Turkey to release a judge detained in a crackdown after last year's failed coup attempt so that he can resume his work on an appeals case.

Turkey was "ordered to cease all legal proceedings against Judge Aydın Sefa Akay and to take all necessary measures to ensure his release... no later than 14 February," the tribunal said.

Emine Erdoğan, wife of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has called on the world community to do more than to just cry over the plight of women and children in Syria.    
   

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic said Monday his recent visit to Abu Dhabi had included meetings with advisers to US president-elect Donald Trump, and added that he was expecting to soon establish contact with Trump's office and with Trump himself.

Vucic was responding to media speculations that he had travelled to Abu Dhabi to attend a Formula 1 race.

A leading U.N. war crimes judge on Nov. 9 called on Turkey to free one of its justices who was arrested in September as part of an investigation into the July 15 failed coup attempt.
The detention of Aydın Sefa Akay, 66, has paralyzed an appeals hearing in Rwanda, judge Theodor Meron, the president of the United Nations' Mechanism for International Tribunals, told the United Nations.

The Turkish Exporters' Assembly (TİM) has called for some 181 envoys and civil servants from 73 countries across the globe to talk about Turkey's devotion to democratic rule and robust economy in their countries and to boost cooperation with Turkey during a three-day meeting hosted in the Aegean province of Çanakkale on Sept. 2-4, the association said in a statement.

Scores of foreign affairs ministers from the four corners of the world have queued up to express solidarity to Turkey as they called their counterpart.

Former UN secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who led the world body during one of its most difficult periods, with failed missions in Rwanda and Bosnia, died Feb. 16 in Cairo. He was 93.