February 12, 2024 6:02 AM EST NEW DELHI — Qatar has freed eight retired Indian navy officers whose death sentences for alleged spying were commuted last year, India’s Foreign Ministry said Monday. The eight men were accused of spying while working at Al Dahra, a consulting company in the oil-rich Gulf state that advises the … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Vladislav Kanyus, a young man from Kemerovo in southwestern Siberia, brutally killed his ex-girlfriend Vera Pekhteleva, torturing, suffocating and stabbing her for hours. He was sentenced in July 2022 to 17 years after a high-profile trial that reignited a national conversation in Russia about the lack of … Read more
Australian journalist Cheng Lei has flown back to Melbourne after being released from about three years of detention in China, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, in a major sign of diplomatic warming after years of tensions. Albanese said Wednesday he had spoken to the former detainee in Melbourne, and she had been reunited with her … Read more