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 Paul Rusesabagina, an outspoken critic of the Rwandan government, has arrived in the US after being freed from prison in Kigali, the White house says. He rose to prominence after being portrayed as a hero of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda. In 2021, he was sentenced to 25 years on terrorism charges by a court, in what supporters called a sham trial. His release earlier this week followed years of US government diplomatic pressure and talks brokered by Qatar. White House National security adviser Jake Sullivan said Mr Rusesabagina had been "reunited with his family & friends who've long waited for this day to come". "I'm grateful to those we worked closely with in the Rwandan Government to make this possible," he wrote on Twitter. The former hotel manager was allowed to return to the US - where he is a permanent resident - after his sentence was "commuted by presidential order", the Rwandan government said upon his relea...

 Prosecutors in Osaka have indicted a man for murdering a female acquaintance with thallium, which was used as rat poison. Kazuki Miyamoto, 37, is accused of killing 21-year-old university student Hinako Hamano last October by lacing her drink with thallium. Thallium was also recently found in his female relative, who has been in a coma since 2020, local media reported citing sources. Just 1g of it could kill an adult. But police have not found a motive, nor how he had laid hands on the poison. The suspect was arrested on 3 March in Kyoto. Thallium is a soft metal which dissolves in water and has no taste or smell- making it hard to detect outside a laboratory setting. Mr Miyamoto, a real estate agent, is believed to have administered thallium to Ms Hamano sometime around 11 and 12 October when he visited her flat in Kyoto. He had told police the two were dining out on the night of 11 October before heading to Ms Hamano's home for drinks, the Japan Times said, citing investigators....

 The US has carried out air strikes against Iran-linked groups in eastern Syria after a drone attack killed a US contractor, the US defence chief said. Fourteen pro-Iran fighters were killed, according to a monitoring group. US officials said the air strikes happened on Thursday night, hours after the drone attack, which US intelligence said was "of Iranian origin". US bases in north-east Syria have come under attack before, with the US responding with air strikes. Last August, the US bombed sites in eastern Syria which it said were linked to Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) - its most powerful armed force - after rocket attacks on US troops there. Thursday night's air strikes were carried out on President Biden's orders "in response to... [the drone] attack as well as a series of recent attacks against coalition forces in Syria by groups affiliated with the IRGC", US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said. He said they had targeted "fac...

 Russia has launched missiles at targets across Ukraine, from Kharkiv in the north to Odesa in the south and Zhytomyr in the west.Buildings and infrastructure were hit in Kharkiv and Odesa, with power blackouts in several areas. Attacks on the capital Kyiv are also reported.The electrical power supply at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has also been lost. It comes as bitter fighting continues for the eastern city of Bakhmut. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion just over a year ago. Since then tens of thousands of combatants and civilians have been killed or injured and millions of Ukrainians became refugees.Emergency services in Kyiv are at the scenes of blasts in western and southern districts of the capital where the mayor, Vitaly Klitschko, said explosions had taken place. Mr Klitschko said cars were burning in the courtyard of one residential building and he urged people to stay in shelters.A mass missile attack struck an energy facili...