A convicted murderer was put to death by lethal injection in Oklahoma on Thursday, the 11th person to be executed in the United States this year, the fewest in decades. Bigler Stouffer spent more than 35 years on Death Row for the 1985 murder of schoolteacher Linda Reaves and the attempted murder of her boyfriend, …
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Pope Francis on Saturday flies into Greece for the first visit by a pontiff in two decades, with Athens under high security amid anti-papal sentiment among Orthodox hardliners. The pope’s two-day trip will see him return on Sunday to the island of Lesbos, which he last visited in 2016 during the early years of the …
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China’s birthrate plummeted to a record low last year, highlighting a looming demographic crisis for Beijing caused by a rapidly ageing workforce, a slowing economy and the weakest population growth in decades. China relaxed its “one-child policy” — one of the world’s strictest family planning regulations — in 2016, allowing couples to have two children. …
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Australia said Monday it will sell coal for “decades into the future” after spurning a pact to phase out the polluting fossil fuel to halt catastrophic climate change. More than 40 countries pledged to eliminate coal use within decades during the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow, which aims to cap the warming of Earth …
Senior members of France’s Catholic hierarchy knelt in a show of penance at the shrine of Lourdes Saturday, a day after bishops accepted the church’s responsibility for decades of child abuse. But some of the victims of the abuse — and lay members supporting them — said they were still waiting for details of compensation …
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House Democrats’ massive voter registration and campaign procedure reform bill—H.R. 1—is the “worst” bill in decades in terms of free speech protections, according to David Keating, president of the Institute for Free Speech (IFS). The controversial bill, also called the For the People Act, spans nearly 800 pages and seeks to impose federal requirements on state …
FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past a statue of Spanish painter Diego Velazquez outside the Prado Museum during a snowfall in Madrid, Spain January 7, 2021. REUTERS/Susana Vera/File Photo January 8, 2021 MADRID (Reuters) – Heavy snowfall brought by Storm Filomena put parts of Spain including the capital Madrid on high alert on Friday, causing …
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