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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran executed a Swedish-Iranian dissident on Saturday convicted of leading an Arab separatist group accused of attacks including one on a military parade in 2018 that killed 25 people, state television reported. Habib Farajollah Chaab had been sentenced to death for being “corrupt on earth”, a capital offence under Iran’s strict Islamic laws. In 2022, Iran started the trial of Chaab on charges of leading the separatist Arab […]

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran executed a Swedish-Iranian dissident on Saturday convicted of leading an Arab separatist group accused of attacks including one on a military parade in 2018 that killed 25 people, state television reported. Habib Farajollah Chaab had been sentenced to death for being “corrupt on earth”, a capital offence under Iran’s strict Islamic laws. In 2022, Iran started the trial of Chaab on charges of leading the separatist Arab […]

(Reuters) – Google is planning to make its search engine more “visual, snackable, personal, and human,” with a focus on serving young people globally, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing documents. The company plans to incorporate more human voices as part of the shift, it added. (Reporting by Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru; Editing by Kim Coghill) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

(Reuters) – Google is planning to make its search engine more “visual, snackable, personal, and human,” with a focus on serving young people globally, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing documents. The company plans to incorporate more human voices as part of the shift, it added. (Reporting by Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru; Editing by Kim Coghill) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong police seized an exhibit on Friday in connection with what they said was an attempt to incite subversion, with media reporting it was a statue commemorating Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown on democracy protesters in 1989. Media reported the exhibit was the Pillar of Shame, an eight-metre (8.75 yard) tall statue depicting dozens of torn and twisted bodies that commemorates protestors killed in […]

By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong police seized an exhibit on Friday in connection with what they said was an attempt to incite subversion, with media reporting it was a statue commemorating Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown on democracy protesters in 1989. Media reported the exhibit was the Pillar of Shame, an eight-metre (8.75 yard) tall statue depicting dozens of torn and twisted bodies that commemorates protestors killed in […]

By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. will finalize by May 11 a new regulation that will deny asylum to many migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, the same day sweeping COVID-19 restrictions at the border are set to end, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Friday. Under the new regulation, migrants will be presumed ineligible for asylum if they passed through another country en route to the […]

By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is getting ready to lift COVID-19 restrictions that have blocked migrants caught at the U.S.-Mexico border from seeking asylum since 2020, a major policy shift with humanitarian and political implications. WHAT IS TITLE 42? The COVID restrictions, known as Title 42, were first implemented under Republican then-President Donald Trump in March 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. At the time, […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Friday he was not yet ready to invoke the 14th Amendment to avoid the United States defaulting on its debts as early as June 1, comments which for the first time suggested he has not ruled out the option. “I’ve not gotten there yet,” Biden said in an interview with MSNBC when asked about the possibility of invoking the amendment. The divided […]