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Trump pulled the plug on Hegseth's plans to livestream the execution of the Fort Hood shooter.

Catholics serving in the US Army should ​not participate in the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan that the Pentagon is planning ‌to livestream in December, a prominent US archbishop said on Monday.

The US will livestream the ​Army's upcoming firing squad execution of a gunman who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, the Pentagon said, in what would be an unprecedented ‌broadcast of a US execution.

A longstanding agreement with the US allows Washington to use the Azores air base without prior authorization during peacetime, but requires ​Portugal to give approval once hostilities begin.

A Syrian court ​sentenced ousted leader Bashar al-Assad to death on Tuesday after a trial in absentia, convicting him of crimes including killings, torture, and arbitrary arrest ‌during the country's nearly 14-year war.

Russian-backed disinformation campaigns are escalating in Germany ahead of state elections, ‌often targeting local political rivals of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, German security sources said.

French police detained a man on Monday after he attacked three women with knives near Porte de ​Clichy in Paris, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told reporters.

Former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman, who is serving a long prison sentence in Russia, ​has been admitted to hospital, Kommersant newspaper ‌reported on Thursday.

An Austrian court on Monday convicted a former Syrian intelligence chief from Raqqa of offences including torture and sexual assault over the ​mistreatment of opponents of then‑leader Bashar al‑Assad more than a decade ‌ago.

A 45-year-old man in an apparent child custody dispute was the suspected shooter at a shelter for mothers and children in northern Germany that left six dead on Monday, officials said.

Iraqi security forces arrested politicians, lawmakers and senior government officials early on Sunday in what security and legal sources described as the start ​of a broader anti-corruption campaign ordered by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi.

Diplomats running the International Criminal Court's oversight body have decided that prosecutor Karim Khan had an inappropriate ​sexual relationship with a junior staff member and should be fired, two copies of its decision showed.

The U.S. military ​said on Tuesday ‌that it had carried ​out a ​strike in the ⁠Eastern Pacific ​that killed ​one man and left two survivors.

Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin has called for a thorough investigation into the death of a Congolese-born man after he ​was restrained outside a Dublin department store, an incident that has shocked ‌the country's small Congolese community.

The Philippine Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Senator Ronald dela Rosa for a temporary restraining order ​to prevent his arrest and transfer to the International Criminal Court.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella travelled to the northern city of Modena on ​Sunday, a day after several people were injured in a car-ramming incident that ‌was the first of its kind in the country.

Georgia sentenced ten people, including a prominent opera singer, to lengthy prison sentences on Thursday after finding them guilty of attempting to overthrow the government and organising violence ​at large rallies during municipal elections last year, in a case critics say underscores ‌a widening ...

The man accused of lobbing gasoline bombs at a pro-Israel rally last year in Boulder, Colorado, killing one ‌person and leaving more than a dozen others injured, pleaded guilty on Thursday to all charges he faced in state court.