A crime reporter has been shot and killed in the beach resort of Playa del Carmen on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, authorities said on Thursday, the latest in a rising death toll of journalists under the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The body of Francisco Romero, a police reporter for newspaper ‘Quintana Roo, Hoy’… Read More Mexican reporter Francisco Romero fatally shot in tourist resort
A Turkish court on Friday sentenced fourteen people to life in jail without parole for involvement in twin bombings in Istanbul that killed dozens in December of 2016, state-owned Anadolu news agency said. The bombing was one of a series of attacks nationwide that began in mid-2015, at the start of around 1-and-half years of… Read More Turkish court sentences fourteen to life imprisonment over 2016 Besiktas bombing
A British far-right extremist who planned to murder a female Member of Parliament with a sword was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday. Jack Renshaw, who had admitted being a member of racist group National Action until it was banned as a terrorist organization, will have to serve at least 20 years in prison. National… Read More British court sentences white supremacist to life imprisonment for plot to murder female lawmaker
I.M. Pei, whose modern designs and high-profile projects made him one of the best-known and most prolific architects of the 20th century, has died, the New York Times reported on Thursday. He was 102. Pei, whose portfolio included a controversial renovation of Paris’ Louvre Museum and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland,… Read More Legendary architect I.M. Pei dies at 102
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned 560 prisoners, the majority of whom were accused of supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, two judicial sources said on Friday. Of those pardoned, 482 were imprisoned on charges related to the Brotherhood, a decades-old Islamist political movement with a mass following, the sources said. A prominent journalist, Abdel… Read More Egypt’s President Abdel al-Sisi pardons 560 prisoners
Bob Hawke, a transformative and charismatic left-wing lawmaker with a ‘larrikin’ streak who served as Australian prime minister from 1983 to 1991, died on Thursday aged 89, his family said. “Today we lost Bob Hawke, a great Australian – many would say the greatest Australian of the post-war era,” his wife and former biographer Blanche… Read More Former Australian PM Bob Hawke dies at 89
Taiwan became the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage on Friday, as thousands of demonstrators outside parliament cheered and waved rainbow flags, despite deep divisions over marriage equality. Lawmakers of the majority Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) backed the bill, which passed 66 to 27, although the measure could complicate President Tsai Ing-wen’s bid… Read More Taiwan lawmakers legalize same-sex marriage
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