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Appeals court overturns Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had his death sentence overturned on Friday by a federal appeals court. While the appeals judges upheld much of Tsarnaev's conviction, they ordered a lower-court judge to hold a new trial strictly over what sentence he should receive for the death penalty-eligible crimes he was convicted of. [Full Article...]
Italian senate paves way for Salvini migrant trial
Prosecutors in Sicily implicate Mr Salvini of prohibited detention, which might bring a prison regard to up to 15 years. This opens the way for criminal prosecution Salvini court of Palermo in connection with its ban in August 2019 on the landing of 80 migrants from a vessel non-governmental organization Open Arms. [Full Article...]
'Birds have landed': French-made Rafale fighter jets reach India
The IAF received the Rafale jets 23 years after it imported Sukhoi-30 Ks from Russian Federation in 1997. Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter , the Defence Minister said , "I would like to add, if it is anyone who should be anxious about or critical about this new capability of the Indian Air Force , it should be those who want to threaten our territorial integrity". [Full Article...]
Trudeau praises ‘excellent work’ of WE Charity, despite recent challenges
Several other major sponsors have also begun to disassociate from WE. Numerous groups that appeared on a government list of organizations it considered to deliver the program say they were never contacted about the student grant specifically, and at least one - YMCA Canada - says they could have delivered the program. [Full Article...]
Unsealed court documents reveal Ghislaine Maxwell's connection with Epstein
Responding to an email from her a few days later, Epstein wrote: "You have done nothing wrong and I (would) urge you to start acting like it". Facing up to 35 years in prison if convicted, she is now being held in a federal jail in Brooklyn while awaiting trial; she has pleaded not guilty . [Full Article...]
Trump now says he doesn't want to postpone presidential elections in November
Trump, who is trailing challenger and former Vice President Joe Biden in opinion polls , had previously meant to focus his re-election bid on the nation's economic performance. "We've had elections during civil unrest", Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee told reporters. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa also told CNN: "All I can say is that, it doesn't matter what one individual in th... [Full Article...]
Kerala celebrates ‘Eid al-Adha’ amid Covid-19 pandemic
The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the annual Islamic pilgrimage, which typically attracts around 2.5 million pilgrims every year. Instead the donated sheep, goats and cows will be killed in abattoirs to mark the "Feast of the Sacrifice,", celebrated by Muslims around the world to commemorate Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail at God's command. [Full Article...]
PM Boris Johnson announces halt to easing lockdown in England
Boris Johnson said: "We will also extend the requirement to wear a face-covering to other indoor settings.such as museums, galleries, cinemas and places of worship". What they're saying: "We have probably reached the limits of what we can do in terms of opening up as a society". The government's scientific advisory group said it did "not have confidence" that the rate of transmission in Engla... [Full Article...]