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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu casts his vote during Israel’s parliamentary elections in Jerusalem on March 17, 2015. (AFP Photo/Pool/Sebastian Scheiner)
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Pakistani relatives mourn beside an ambulance carrying the body of convicted murderer Muhammad Faisal after his execution in Karachi on March 17, 2015. (AFP Photo/Rizwan Tabassum)
Pakistan hangs 12 men in largest execution since moratorium lifted
Islamabad, Reuters—Pakistan hanged 12 male convicts on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said, the largest number of people executed on the same day since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted a...Caption:
The parents of Arab-Israeli Muhammad Musallam (portrait) react to news of his death at the family’s home in East Jerusalem on March 10, 2015. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)
Opinion: They Kill Like Men, They Die Like Boys
His face was smooth, the signs of imminent manhood yet to appear on his unblemished features, just like any other boy of his age. Even his eyes, which he had tried to empty of any sign of feeling, betrayed a childlike innocence, one squarely at odds with the barbaric...Caption:
Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz (C) heads a Saudi cabinet meeting in the capital Riyadh, on March 17, 2015. (Saudi Press Agency)
Saudi cabinet weighs in on diplomatic rift with Sweden
Riyadh and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi Arabia on Monday once again defended its judiciary and human rights record, in response to recent comments by Sweden’s foreign minister that have led to a diplomatic rift between the two nations, and warned it could reconsider...Caption:
US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pose for a photograph before resuming talks over Iran’s nuclear program in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 16, 2015. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)