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The teenager with the pudgy face and close-cropped hair was suddenly drawn into a national debate.In the charged politics of the Trump era, the right quickly embraced Rittenhouse — who had traveled from his home in Illinois — as a hero who was helping authorities restore order.... The other charges against him include first-degree reckless homicide and first-degree recklessly endangering safety.He was also facing a misdemeanor charge for illegally carrying a weapon — the charge that legal exper

KAMPALA( Reuters)-A Ugandan author who had spent nearly a month in jail after criticising President Yoweri Museveni has fled the country, the lawyer said on Wednesday. Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, an internationally acclaimed writer, was released from jail in late January after being detianed in late December for communications offences related to a series of tweets he posted about Museveni and his son, an army general." Yes, he has fled," his lawyer Eron Kiiza told Reuters, adding he was destined t

KAMPALA( Reuters)-A Ugandan court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for an international award-winning author who fled to Germany last month to seek treatment for injuries he said were inflicted on him during torture by security personnel, his lawyer said.... Kakwenza Rukirabashaija was arrested at the end of December and held for almost a month before he was charged with communications offences related to tweets that criticised President Yoweri Museveni and his son.... " It is true the co

28 when armed men broke into his house and took him away. His lawyer has said he has been tortured and that at one time he was urinating blood.... Police and military have not responded to the allegations of torture.He was charged with “ offensive communication, ” the charge sheet showed.... @ KakwenzaRukira, ” Gilmore tweeted on Jan....

Award-winning broadcaster and writer Lemn Sissay will be among a number of people recognised with royal honours at Windsor Castle on Wednesday. The 54-year-old, who was the official poet of the 2012 London Olympics, will receive an OBE for services to literature and to charity.Mr Sissay, whose mother arrived in Britain from Ethiopia pregnant with him in 1966, spent his early life in foster care and children’s homes, an experience which features in his literary work. Throughout his career, he has

David Lloyd George’s childhood cottage is to be “ decolonised ” with the help of funding from the Welsh Government. The Liberal prime minister’s modest former home in rural Wales has been converted into a museum, which has been swept into plans to make his homeland “ anti-racist ”.... It also advises museums to ensure “ collections, activities and exhibitions present a greater diversity of BAME perspectives, histories and experiences ”.... At the unveiling, the then Prince Charles said Lloyd G