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China reveals it executed scientist for spying in 2016 in documentary about 'shocking' cases
South China Morning Post, Published on 15/04/2024
» Authorities in Beijing have revealed that a Chinese scientist who was convicted in 2015 of selling state secrets to foreign spy agencies was executed in 2016, one of several "shocking" spy cases.
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Vatican says gender change, surrogacy are threats to human dignity
New York Times, Published on 09/04/2024
» ROME — The Vatican on Monday issued a new document approved by Pope Francis stating that the church believes that gender-fluidity and transition surgery, as well as surrogacy, amount to affronts to human dignity.
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Assange wins new hearing against extradition
Published on 26/03/2024
» LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has won a chance to continue his fight against extradition to the United States after the High Court in London said the US needed to provide more assurances.
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Vietnam president resigns after a year on the job
Reuters, Published on 20/03/2024
» HANOI - The Vietnamese Communist Party on Wednesday accepted the resignation of President Vo Van Thuong, the government said in a statement citing "shortcomings", in a sign of political turmoil that could hurt foreign investors' confidence in the country.
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Vietnam seeks death for tycoon in $12bn fraud case
Reuters, Published on 19/03/2024
» HANOI - Vietnamese prosecutors called on Tuesday for the death penalty to be handed to Truong My Lan, the mastermind of the Southeast Asian nation's largest financial fraud on record, state media said.
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Myanmar generals sentenced to death as 2 die in passport queue
Published on 19/02/2024
» Myanmar's junta has given death sentences to three brigadier generals who surrendered with hundreds of troops and handed over a strategic Chinese border town to rebel fighters last month, military sources informed AFP on Monday, as two people were killed in a crush as hundreds queued for passports to leave the neighbouring country
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Pope hits back at critics of LGBT blessings
Published on 07/02/2024
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis said he sees “hypocrisy” in criticism of his decision to allow priests to bless same-sex couples, possibly his most strongly worded defence of the move.
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Man gets death for Japan animation fire that killed 36
Bloomberg News, Published on 25/01/2024
» KYOTO - A Japanese district court sentenced a man to death for setting a fire that killed 36 people at Kyoto Animation studios in 2019 in one of the country's biggest mass-murder cases in recent history, Kyodo News and local media said.
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Vietnam court sentences 9 people to death for drug trafficking
Published on 22/01/2024
» HANOI: A court in Vietnam on Monday sentenced nine people to death after being convicted of involvement in one of the country's largest drug trafficking cases in months, state media reported.
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Iran adds prison time for Nobel winner
New York Times, Published on 16/01/2024
» The Iranian regime sentenced Narges Mohammadi, the jailed human rights activist who received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, to 15 more months in prison, her family said Monday.
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