Saudi Arabia said on Friday that three people including a pilot were killed in attacks on Riyadh international airport the day before when Yemen’s Houthis claimed hits on the facility. Houthi media reported on Friday that Saudi attacks on Sanaa airport killed two people, while the civil defence agency in the Yemeni capital reported extinguishing […]
Read MoreA Paris court on Friday jailed a young Indian man to 20 years jail for leading a masculinist group that forced young girls, many of them minors, to perform sexual acts and in some cases tortured them. Prosecutors had sought a 30-year jail term for Rohan Rane, a 29-year-old who they described as a Nazi lover […]
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Condemnation of US plans for a public execution by military firing squad escalated Friday, as Vice President JD Vance cast doubt on whether it would be livestreamed as proposed and insisted he would not watch such an event. Nidal Hasan’s execution — scheduled for December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, where he gunned down 13 […]
Read MoreA magnitude-7.7 earthquake jolted Panama on Friday, setting off panic in the capital city and warnings of dangerous tsunami waves. USGS said the quake was detected at 1756 GMT with an epicenter 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from the small town of Pitaloza Arriba in the south-center of Panama. It initially measured at magnitude 8. The […]
Read MoreDer Copilot der in Saudi-Arabien notgelandeten Flydubai-Maschine wollte nach Angaben der emiratischen Ermittler einen Selbstmordanschlag auf den Flughafen im israelischen Tel Aviv verüben. Der Mann aus dem Oman habe sich dabei die Anschläge vom 11. September 2001 in den USA zum Vorbild genommen, erklärte Generalstaatsanwalt Hamad Saif al-Schamsi am Freitag. Sein Ziel sei gewesen, so […]
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In den USA wächst der Druck auf Verteidigungsminister Pete Hegseth, auf die angekündigte Liveübertragung der Hinrichtung eines zum Tode verurteilten Attentäters zu verzichten. US-Vizepräsident JD Vance äußerte am Freitag Zweifel und sagte, er werde sich einen Livestream nicht anschauen. Republikaner wie auch Demokraten im Kongress erklärten, eine öffentliche Hinrichtung erinnere an autoritäre Regierungen und Extremisten. […]
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Nur wenige Stunden nach der Verkündung des Friedensnobelpreises für die frühere IStGH-Richterin Navi Pillay haben die USA am Freitag neue Sanktionen gegen den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof (IStGH) verhängt. Das Haager Tribunal verurteilte das US-Vorgehen und nannte die Sanktionen einen “Angriff auf die Rechtsstaatlichkeit und auf die Grundlagen der internationalen Rechtsordnung”. Deutschland, mehrere weitere westliche Länder und […]
Read MoreHurricane Isaias’s outer bands began lashing the US Gulf Coast on Friday, with the category 3 storm triggering mandatory evacuations and poised to bring life-threatening storm surge when it makes landfall by evening. Isaias is the first hurricane of an Atlantic season held in check by a historic El Nino phenomenon, and is set to […]
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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Navi Pillay of South Africa, a judge and former UN rights chief whose career has seen her tackle allegations of genocide in Gaza, Rwanda and Myanmar, prompting a furious response from Israel. Pillay once sat on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and in acknowledging the award she […]
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