How the US plan to livestream an execution compares with global practice
The U.S. military plans to livestream the Dec. 3 execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. If carried out as...
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Outrage over US military plan to livestream firing squad execution
WASHINGTON — Condemnation of the Pentagon's plan to livestream the firing squad execution of a convicted military base mass shooter escalated Friday, with the UN saying it would amount to torture and ...
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Trump says US to get diesel from Russia, relaxing pressure on Moscow to ease prices before midterms
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that he has struck a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, a stunning reversal of years of U.S. pressure on Moscow over its war with Ukraine and an attempt to add...
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Microsoft is being suspended from program to apply for green cards for H-1B visa workers, Vance says
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using an H-1B vis...
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Saudi authorities say 3 killed in Houthi-claimed attacks on Riyadh airport
BEIRUT — An airline pilot was among three Saudi citizens killed in attacks targeting Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport and a Saudia airlines plane, the kingdom’s civil aviation authority said...
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Trump veers into Nobel Prize grievances during upstate New York rally on day award is announced
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — U.S. President Donald Trump veered far from midterm election politics during a rally in upstate New York on Friday, aiming a bitter diatribe at the Norwegian Nobel Committee for givin...
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Panama rocked by 2 powerful earthquakes and multiple aftershocks, prompting evacuations
PANAMA CITY — Two powerful 7.7 and 6.6 magnitude earthquakes and a series of aftershocks roiled southern Panama Friday afternoon, collapsing buildings near the epicenter and prompting evacuations acro...
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South African-born jurist Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize for work in international justice
OSLO, Norway — Navi Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former U.N. human rights chief whose career has spanned from defending the rights of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela to leading a panel that fo...
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Hunger and malnutrition stalk Gazans, a year on from ceasefire
KHAN YUNIS, Palestinian Territories — Every day, Gazan mother Niyaha al-Masri spends six exhausting hours or more queueing at a community kitchen in the hope of getting some food for her family. It ha...
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Year later, Gaza ceasefire promises mostly unfulfilled
JERUSALEM — One year after U.S. President Donald Trump declared the war in Gaza to be over, few of the long-term promises of the ceasefire have come to fruition. Here is a list of some of the key poin...
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