The United Nations has decried what it calls “summary executions” of children by the rebel group M23 in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Human rights activists, lawyers and medical practitioners in East Africa are calling on the Ugandan government to release opposition leader Kizza Besigye, who has spent the past three months in military detention. European leaders held a crisis meeting in Paris to discuss Ukrainian and European security after recent diplomatic steps by Washington have raised doubts over the U.S. commitment to the transatlantic defense alliance.