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Source link www.rferl.org Male students who enrolled in Taliban-run religious schools say that sexual and physical abuse has led some to end their pursuit of an education in Afghanistan. The students, all of whom were aged 10 to 17 and spoke to RFE/RL's Radio Azadi on condition of anonymity ...

Three Just Stop Oil eco-clowns were today convicted after disrupting Wimbledon tennis matches by throwing confetti and puzzle pieces.Deborah Wilde, 69, Simon Milner-Edwards, 67 and William Ward, 66, accepted that they climbed over a barrier and threw tinsel and jigsaw puzzle pieces over the court during The Championships, the world's ...

ISLAMABAD —  Afghanistan’s Taliban Monday carried out another public execution of a man charged with murder, defying international calls to stop the “inhuman” punishments. It was the third public execution within a week. The Taliban Supreme Court said in an announcement that the execution had taken place in a ...

ISLAMABAD —  Afghanistan’s fundamentalist Taliban authorities publicly executed two men Thursday who had been convicted of murder in separate incidents. The Taliban’s Supreme Court said the executions, by gunshot, were carried out in a football stadium in the southeastern city of Ghazni. A large number of justice and government ...

Warning: This story contains distressing details.Superior Court Justice Renee Pomerance refused to say Nathaniel Veltman's name, but said his actions on June 6, 2021, when he deliberately drove his truck into the Afzaal family in London, Ont., were terrorism as defined under Canadian law. "I have chosen not to name the ...

ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani court on Saturday convicted and sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to seven years in prison on a charge that their 2018 marriage violated the law, officials and a defense lawyer said. The verdict follows another case in which Khan ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court on Saturday convicted and sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to seven years in prison on a charge that their 2018 marriage violated the law, officials and a defense lawyer said. The verdict follows another case in which Khan and ...

Islamabad —  Pakistan's Supreme Court lifted lifetime bans on politicians with past convictions from running for public office Monday, paving the way for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to run in the national elections next month. The top court announced the widely anticipated ruling after several days of hearings ...

Warning: This story contains distressing details:Relatives of the London, Ont., Muslim family struck down by a white nationalist on June 6, 2021, are describing their deep pain and loss at his sentencing hearing that began Thursday, with the 23-year-old among those in court listening to victim impact statements."The offender didn't just take lives. He took ...

Source link www.rferl.org Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he believes additional military aid from the United States to fend off Russia’s full-scale invasion will arrive soon despite indications that a massive spending bill for Ukraine won’t pass the U.S. Congress by the end of the year. Zelenskiy announced on ...