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Afghanistan: Taliban carry out double public execution at stadium

Afghanistan: Taliban carry out double public execution at stadium

GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban carried out a double public execution Thursday at a stadium in the country’s southeast, where relatives of the victims of stabbing deaths fired guns at two convicted men while thousands of people watched. The Taliban’s Supreme Court ruled that the two men were responsible for the stabbing deaths […]

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Canadian white supremacist who killed Muslim family gets life sentence

Canadian white supremacist who killed Muslim family gets life sentence

The judge in the case said Nathaniel Veltman’s attack represented an act of ‘terrorism’. A Canadian white supremacist who deliberately ran over four members of a Muslim family has been sentenced to life in prison for the murders. Nathaniel Veltman, 23, was convicted in November of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of

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Head of Boeing 737 MAX programme out amid safety concerns at planemaker

Head of Boeing 737 MAX programme out amid safety concerns at planemaker

Ed Clark oversaw the Renton factory where the Alaska Airlines plane involved in blowout was completed. The head of Boeing’s troubled 737 MAX programme has left the planemaker, according to a company memo, amid scrutiny around production and safety measures following a mid-air blowout on a plane last month. The company also reshuffled its leadership

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Can Israel be stopped from using starvation as a weapon of war? | Israel War on Gaza

Can Israel be stopped from using starvation as a weapon of war? | Israel War on Gaza

The World Food Programme suspends aid deliveries in northern Gaza. The United Nations food agency is halting aid deliveries to northern Gaza because it’s too dangerous. It says the decision wasn’t taken lightly, and it knows more people risk dying of hunger. But it is adamant that conditions need to improve and the safety of

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Photos: Greek farmers drive tractors to parliament to demand financial help | Agriculture News

Photos: Greek farmers drive tractors to parliament to demand financial help | Agriculture News

Scores of brightly coloured tractors have been parked outside Greece’s parliament, horns blaring, as thousands of farmers angry at high production costs protested in Athens. “Without us, you don’t eat,” one banner at Tuesday’s rally said. Some farmers carried mock coffins and funeral garlands as symbols of their plight. The farmers, whose demands are similar

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange makes last-ditch attempt to avoid U.S. extradition

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange makes last-ditch attempt to avoid U.S. extradition

Jamil Jaffer: Well, one, he’s not a U.S. citizen, so he doesn’t actually have rights from the U.S. Constitution. Now, he’s being brought here, prosecuted here. Presumably, those rights will apply once he’s here and in our courts. But having published from abroad, he doesn’t actually have First Amendment rights. That being said, even if

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What will it take to end hunger and malnutrition in South Sudan? | Poverty and Development

What will it take to end hunger and malnutrition in South Sudan? | Poverty and Development

UN warns Africa’s youngest nation is facing a food crisis. South Sudan is on the verge of a devastating hunger catastrophe, the World Food Programme has warned. In its short history, Africa’s youngest country has been battered by armed conflict and the effects of climate change. Now, the influx of half a million people –

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