Khost (Afghanistan) (AFP) – A man convicted of murder was publicly executed at a stadium in eastern Afghanistan, witnesses told AFP on Tuesday, a punishment a UN rights monitor called "inhumane". The ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban made a 13-year-old carry out a public execution in front of thousands of onlookers, shooting a man who had killed more than a dozen members of the boy’s family. An estimated ...

The Taliban have carried out a huge public execution in a stadium packed with 80,000 people - forcing a 13-year-old to put his family's killer to death. Afghanistan’s ruling authorities carried out a ...

The victims' relatives had been offered the option of forgiveness and reconciliation that would have spared the man's life, but instead requested the death penalty. The incident brings to 12 the ...

"We don't train to do it inside a fog bank," said one of the rescue pilots after the crew of guardsmen faced rough winds and poor visibility to reach a woman on a cruise ship 100 miles from shore. By ...

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