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Paul Rusesabagina, the man portrayed in the Hollywood film "Hotel Rwanda" by actor Don Cheadle, has been freed from prison in Kigali. Two years ago, Rusesabagina was sentenced to 25 years behind bars on terrorism charges. Many at the time said the trial was a farce. After facing pressure from the Biden administration, the 68-year-old former resident of Texas was released by
WLRN promoted Caitie Muñoz and Jessica Bakeman while also hiring a breaking news editor.
Top of The World: Amid widespread outrage and grief after the discovery of a mass grave holding the remains of 215 children, Indigenous leaders in Canada are calling for a search for other mass graves across the nation. And, Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the French Open. Also, Israel's two-year-long political struggle to form a lasting government could reach a conclusion this week.
The aim of the census, launched this month, is not to create an exact count, but rather to establish a baseline of wildlife data, and will focus predominantly on counting terrestrial and aquatic mammals.
This week, South Africa announced it would halt the rollout of 1 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after results from a recent study showed the vaccine wasn't effective against mild and moderate cases of a local COVID-19 variant. Now, the country is having to reevaluate its vaccine rollout strategy. The World's Halima Gikandi reports.