United Nations experts on Wednesday called on US authorities not to go ahead with the planned execution of an inmate by nitrogen hypoxia, saying the method may subject him to “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or even torture”. Kenneth Smith, convicted for a murder-for-hire committed in 1988, is scheduled to be executed in the US […]
Fines imposed by Russian courts on Alphabet’s Google and YouTube, Meta, TikTok and Telegram appear to have been settled as the companies are no longer registered as debtors in the state bailiffs’ database. But the database, accessed by Reuters on Wednesday, still includes X (formerly Twitter) and Twitch, with fines totalling 51 million roubles ($560,730) […]
French President Emmanuel Macron called on Israel to avoid escalation, “particularly in Lebanon”, following a strike attributed to Israel that killed Hamas’s deputy leader in Beirut, the Elysee Palace said Tuesday. Macron, who spoke by telephone with the Israeli minister and war cabinet member Benny Gantz, said “it is essential to avoid any escalatory attitude, […]