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Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by firing squad for the 2004 murder of an off-duty police officer and a convenience store worker

Pronounced dead after 4 minutes

Man executed by firing squad in South Carolina

Ecuador's leftist presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez and incumbent Daniel Noboa have made their final appeals to Ecuador's voters

Incumbent vs leftist challenger

Ecuador presidential hopefuls make last pitch to voters

US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff (L) and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi

Iran says seeks 'real and fair' deal in nuclear talks with US

Emergency appeal

UN seeks $275 million in aid for Myanmar quake survivors

A two-month ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war collapsed on March 18, 2025

Bombardment continues

Gaza rescuers say family of 10 killed in Israel strike

Many US states experimented with their own versions of daylight saving time, but it wasn't reintroduced nationwide until 1967

'Costly' custom

Trump renews call for end to seasonal clock changes

Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro will stand trial on charges of masterminding an attempted coup d'etat

Linked to the 2018 stabbing

Brazil's Bolsonaro hospitalized with severe abdominal pain: party

Tunisia's National Salvation Front opposition coalition Ahmed Nejib Chebbi has called the accusations against the defendants 'wild fabrications'

President Kais Saied

Trial of Tunisian opposition figures resumes, 6 on hunger strike

The pope, still recovering from double pneumonia, greeted visiting King Charles III and Queen Camilla this week

Improving ahead of Easter

Recovering pope 'happy' to get out and about: Vatican

Soldiers on March 7, 2025 in Guayaquil, Ecuador detain a man during an operation in a neighborhood where at least 22 people were killed

Five key factors

Ecuador: from Darwin to drug trafficking

Taliban security personnel patrol the city of Zaranj where a man was publicly executed at a football stadium

Shot by relatives

Four men publicly executed in one day in Afghanistan

Yoon Suk Yeol (front C) left the presidential residence in Seoul to the cheers of supporters

Impeached ex-leader

South Korea's disgraced Yoon quits presidential residence

Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 66, was brought to India from the United States on Thursday

India questions Mumbai-attacks accused after extradition

The weather in New York was gusty under thick cloud cover

Into Hudson River

Siemens executive, family among six killed in New York helicopter crash

China says raising tariffs on US goods to 125%

Bangladesh's embassy in Moscow said around a dozen families have contacted them seeking to bring back their sons they allege were duped into joining the Russian army

Bangladesh families seek sons feared fighting for Russia

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged the European Union on Friday to join hands with Beijing in resisting

In reference to tariffs

China, EU must 'jointly resist unilateral bullying', Xi tells Spanish PM

The US Senate has confirmed Dan Caine, pictured testifying during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on April 1, 2025, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

After abruptly firing previous chairman

US Senate approves Trump's nominee for top military officer

Morning Roundup

Luxembourg tops EU minimum wage, helicopter crash in the Hudson River, and NATO training flights at Findel

European air forces could face gaps if the US pulled out key assets from the continent

NATO defence exercise

In skies, as on land, European forces face gaps if US pulls back

Over 200 people died when the roof of the Jet Set nightclub crashed down

Hundreads dead, a nation mourning

'A pain that doesn't subside' at funerals for Dominican nightclub disaster victims

Rescuers in Santo Domingo have called off the search for any more survivors under the rubble of the Jet Set nightclub, after its roof came crashing down on hundreds of party-goers

After collapsed roof

Grieving Dominicans start burying 220 victims of nightclub disaster

A woman walks past a mural on the walls of the former US embassy building in Tehran, known as the

Military action 'possible'

Iran, US raise stakes ahead of key talks in Oman

National carrier Aerolineas Argentina said 258 flights had to be scrapped due to the general strike

Trains and planes grounded

Argentina braves 24-hour strike as it awaits word on IMF loan

The multi-day attacks on Mumbai in 2008 killed 166 people

According to Indian law enforcement

Mumbai attacks suspect extradited from US lands in India

The planned meeting with King Charles III and Queen Camilla initially had been cancelled due to Pope Francis's poor health

Recovering from pneumonia

Pope in surprise St Peter's visit a day after meeting King Charles

More than 200 people were killed when the roof of the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo caved in

Killing over 200

Why did a Dominican nightclub roof cave in?

A court has charged Tanzania's main opposition leader Tundu Lissu (C) with treason a day after he was arrested.

Charges carry death penalty

Tanzanian opposition leader Lissu charged with treason

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