Pursuit of ‘non-stop executions’ causing psychological distress to corrections staff as states urged to widen gap between executionsThe relentless pursuit of “non-stop executions” by a rump of US death penalty states is exposing prison staff to extreme levels of psychological and physical stress, according to traumatized corrections officers who are appealing for help.Though capital punishment is generally on the wane in America, with only five states carrying out executions last year, those...
Britain's biggest prison, HMP Berwyn in North Wales, opened its doors in 2017 and has acquired a reputation as the epicentre of a sex scandal engulfing the Prison Service.
For the first time, the Philippine Coast Guard will join the Balikatan military exercises with the United States, with six of its vessels being readied for “humanitarian armed service” role in the 16-day drill slated to begin on Monday.
Chinese coast guard vessels have fired their water cannons against a routine Philippine patrol, further ratcheting up tensions between Beijing and the U.S. defense treaty ally in the South China Sea.The Philippine vessels, comprising coast guard cutter BRP Bagacay and fisheries bureau ship the BRP Bankaw, were on a mission to distribute fuel and food to fishermen near the contested area known as Scarborough Shoal on Sunday, when the boats were targeted, said the Philippine Coast Guard.During...
Mahmoud Abbas says any attack on city could see large numbers of Palestinians flee Gaza entirely.
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted clemency to more than 4,000 prisoners, including some who were on death row, in an independence day amnesty on Thursday. Zimbabwe marked 44 years of independence from white minority rule, which ended in 1980 after a bloody bush war. The country’s name was changed from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe. The presidential amnesty, the second in less than a year, benefits female, older and juvenile inmates, the terminally ill and some who were originally sentenced to...
Critics condemn ‘reckless and cruel’ expulsions and say deportees likely to be targeted by armed gangs who control much of countryMore than 70 Haitians expelled from the United States have been flown back to Haiti on the first deportation flight since heavily armed gangs launched a bloody insurrection which has paralysed the capital and forced the prime minister from office.The flight, which landed in the port city of Cap-Haïtien early on Thursday, was described as “inhumane” by human rights...
The sector will achieve “liftoff” when “it is actively contributing to decarbonization targets, with a sustained project pipeline and regular deployment,” the Energy Department said.
Apple has pledged to buy US-made chips once TSMC’s Arizona plants come online, but the company may have to pay more for them. TSMC’s chief exec has said that it plans to charge customers more for chips made outside of Taiwan, due to the higher production costs more
TikTok faces imminent US ban as President Biden signs 'Protecting Americans' Data From Foreign Adversaries Act,' compelling ByteDance to sell or shut down.
Human rights organizations in Iran have reported that in less than four months, from the beginning of 2024 until now, at least 14 Afghan nationals have been executed in Iranian prisons. Hengaw, a human rights organization based in Iranian Kurdistan, reported on Saturday, April 20th, that the implementation of the death sentence for five Afghan […]