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"By ruling in Mr Buck's favor, the Supreme Court concluded that it is an 'extraordinary' error to allow a death sentence when there is a chance racial discrimination played a role in the death verdict," he added.

Ukraine's president called Tuesday for new sanctions against Russia over its decision to recognize passports issued by separatist authorities in eastern Ukraine, while the Kremlin accused Ukraine of denying vital documents to people in the rebel regions.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday decried anti-semitic threats targeting Jewish community as "horrible" and "painful", saying that there is need to fight bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms.

Afghanistan National Assembly Speaker Abdul Raouf Ibrahimi has suggested that Pakistan merely putting Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed on the terror list was not enough and said the international terrorist "should be eliminated".

Tanzania on Saturday announced plans to publish a list of gay people allegedly selling sex online - just days after shutting dozens of AIDS clinics accused of promoting homosexuality.

Malaysian police said on Saturday they had arrested a North Korean man in connection with the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the half brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide three cases in coming months that could help or hinder President Donald Trump's efforts to ramp up border security and accelerate deportations of those in the country illegally.

The Band of the Grenadier Guards will a play a selection of Indian-themed music, including tracks from the 2009 box-office hit 'Slumdog Millionaire', on February 27, 2017.

Pakistani security forces on Friday killed more than 24 militants in a nationwide crackdown, a day after an ISIS suicide bomber blew himself up in Sufi shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sindh’s Sehwan, claiming 76 lives.

An Islamic State suicide bomber struck inside a famed shrine in southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 75 people in the deadliest attack in the country in more than two years.

Lopez, the founder of Popular Will, one of the most hardline of the parties opposing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is serving a 14-year prison term on charges of inciting unrest at anti-government protests that left 43 people dead in 2014.

The president gets to live there, but the White House actually belongs to the American people and starting March 7, they can start to take tours for the first time during Donald Trump's presidency.

China has expelled 32 South Korean Christian missionaries amid diplomatic tension between the two countries over the planned deployment of a US missile defence system in the South.

Donald Trump lashed out Thursday at a Democratic senator who revealed that the president's own Supreme Court nominee had called Trump's attacks on the judiciary "disheartening" and "demoralizing."

May herself faced a rebellion of up to a dozen of her Conservative MPs, who are expected to defy the party's whip and vote for the rights of EU citizens living in the UK to be guaranteed before Brexit negotiations begin.

"After some back and forth, he did say that he found them to be disheartening and demoralizing," said Blumenthal, who is a member of the Judiciary Committee, which will hold a confirmation hearing on Gorsuch's nomination.