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Chadians are voting in parliamentary, regional and municipal elections for the first time in more than a decade, continuing the former military-turned-civilian government’s push to put the Central African country on a democratic path. But opposition party members are sceptical. Officials in N’djamena say Sunday’s vote will formally end a three-year “transitional period” that followed […]
The editorial copy detailing the results has always included shots of strong commentary. I say that, based on my experiences writing newspaper columns about RNA polls since the early 1980s. The poll materials — rather than the old-school focus on specific news events — has increasingly included editorial descriptions of subjects or trends from the […]
In another incident, this one in Punjab, a member of a church was brutally assaulted by religious extremists during a prayer service. The attack left him with critical injuries, including severe head trauma. He was hospitalized at a Christian medical college in Ludhiana. Despite receiving medical care, Bhagwan Singh succumbed to his injuries on Feb. […]
Haitian authorities have struggled to address rise of powerful armed gangs, and accountability for violence is rare. Armed men have opened fire on a group of journalists in Haiti who had gathered to cover the reopening of the capital’s largest public hospital. While authorities have not offered details on casualties from the attack on Tuesday, […]
The UN now says 207 people were killed in a slum neighborhood of the capital, Port-au-Prince, earlier this month. The United Nations has raised the death toll of a recent mass killing in Haiti, saying its investigation found that 207 people were killed by a gang, including dozens of older people and Vodou religious leaders. […]
Listen to article ISLAMABAD: The United States and the United Kingdom questioned on Monday the trial and conviction of civilians in military courts in Pakistan, a day after the European Union (EU) expressed the similar concerns. Last week, the military courts sentenced 25 civilians to prison terms ranging from two to 10 years for attacking military installations […]
As of 2021, 2,382 prisoners in the U.S. were under sentence of death, both on the state and federal levels. Of those sentenced, 98 percent are male and 40 percent Black. The use of the death penalty, while has been gradually disappearing in the United States, remains popular among a majority of Americans despite widespread […]
Twenty-nine prisoners remain at the US detention facility in Cuba after the transfer of Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu. The United States has released Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu to Kenya, bringing the number of prisoners at the facility to 29. The Pentagon announced Bajabu’s release on Tuesday, saying Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin […]
MEXICO CITY — Ten Catholic priests and a seminarian were murdered during the six-year term of former Mexican President López Obrador that ended Sept. 30, the Catholic Multimedia Center said in its 2024 annual report. Seven bishops and seven additional priests were violently attacked during the same period but survived, the center said, chronicling concurrent […]
Singapore – Masoud Rahimi Mehrzad’s father was in a remote part of Iran when he received the news that he had long dreaded. His son was to be hanged in Singapore’s Changi Prison. Suffering from deteriorating health and with just a week’s notice until the execution at dawn on November 29, he was unable to […]