Move coincides with DRC’s drive to sign minerals deal with US in exchange for security in war with Rwanda-backed rebels.
China’s embassy in Ottawa has confirmed executions of four dual Canadian-Chinese citizens for drug offences.
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From Mount Denali to EVs, we break down 26 executive orders US President Donald Trump signed on his inauguration day.
Fan Weiqu had rammed his car into a crowd, killing 35, while Xu Jiajin, 21, killed eight people in a stabbing attack.
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During his first term in office, Trump oversaw a series of federal executions unparalleled in modern history.
White House says 37 of 40 inmates on federal death row will face life in prison instead.
Joseph Corcoran had paranoid schizophrenia when he killed four people, including his brother, in 1997, his lawyers say.
A Filipina who spent nearly 15 years on death row in Indonesia for drug offences was reunited with her family.
Singapore has executed nine people so far this year and dozens more are on death row for drug trafficking offences.
If Robert Roberson’s execution eventually goes ahead, it will be the first for shaken baby syndrome.
Robert Roberson was scheduled to die in a US case where experts cast doubt on the evidence used in his conviction.
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Robert Roberson was convicted of killing daughter and is now set to be first execution in a shaken baby syndrome case.
US execution comes days after that of Marcellus Williams in Missouri, where victim’s family also asked for clemency.
Judge acknowledges Iwao Hakamada was wrongfully convicted for murders at miso factory in 1966.
