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China's sweeping new anti-espionage law comes into effect
AFP, Published on 01/07/2023
» BEIJING - A revised law dramatically expanding China's definition of espionage came into force on Saturday, giving Beijing more power than ever to punish what it deems threats to national security.
Singapore to execute man over 1kg of cannabis
AFP, Published on 21/04/2023
» SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man is scheduled to be hanged next week for conspiring to smuggle a kilogram of cannabis, rights groups said, in the city-state's first execution in six months.
Net closes as January 6 probe shifts to Trump's role in violence
AFP, Published on 10/11/2021
» WASHINGTON - A flurry of subpoenas targeting top lieutenants and a court affirming lawmakers' investigating powers have sent Donald Trump a decisive message as he seeks to run down the clock on the January 6 insurrection probe: you cannot escape justice forever.
US Capitol riot panel votes to hold Trump ally Bannon in criminal contempt
AFP, Published on 20/10/2021
» WASHINGTON - Lawmakers investigating the deadly assault on the US Capitol voted unanimously Tuesday to pursue criminal contempt charges for a key ally of former president Donald Trump for refusing to testify.
US carries out first federal execution of woman in decades
AFP, Published on 13/01/2021
» WASHINGTON: An American woman who murdered a pregnant dog breeder in order to steal her baby was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday, becoming the first female to be executed by US federal authorities in nearly seven decades.
US carries out first federal execution in 17 years
AFP, Published on 14/07/2020
» WASHINGTON - A former white supremacist convicted of the 1996 murders of a family of three was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday as federal executions resumed in the United States following a 17-year hiatus.
US carries out first federal execution in 17 years
AFP, Published on 14/07/2020
» WASHINGTON - A former white supremacist convicted of murdering a family of three in 1996 was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday in the first federal execution in the United States in 17 years, the Justice Department said.
Nebraska conducts first US execution with fentanyl
AFP, Published on 15/08/2018
» CHICAGO - Nebraska on Tuesday carried out America's first execution using fentanyl -- the opioid at the center of the country's deadly overdose crisis -- as part of an untested four-drug combination.
Mourners remember Louisiana father shot by police
AFP, Published on 07/07/2016
» WASHINGTON - Mourners gathered for a vigil to commemorate a black father of five apparently shot to death while being held down by police in Louisiana, hours after federal civil rights investigators said they will probe the incident.
Charleston church shooter faces death penalty in federal trial
AFP, Published on 25/05/2016
» WASHINGTON - The man accused of gunning down nine African American churchgoers in South Carolina last year will face two death penalty trials, after federal prosecutors announced they would seek capital punishment.