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Israel's parliament, the Knesset, on Monday passed legislation making the death penalty by hanging the default punishment for West Bank Palestinians found guilty of murdering Israeli citizens. A total of 62 of 120 lawmakers backed the bill, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose ruling coalition is reliant on the support of far-right parties, for whom the adoption

The Plateau State government in central Nigeria declared a two-day curfew in the Jos North Local Government Area after an overnight attack in the Angwan Rukuba district of the city.  It said the curfew would remain in force until the end of Tuesday, following what it called a "tragic security incident ...  resulting in the

Pakistan has intensified its diplomatic outreach to become a key mediator in the US-Israel war with Iran, using its strategic relationships with Iran and the US to serve as a mediator. Despite no sign of the conflict slowing down, the government in Islamabad held high-level meetings with Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia on Sunday to lay the

Air Canada's CEO Michael Rousseau will retire later this year, the airline said on Monday , following criticism of his English-only message of condolence after the death of two pilots in a collision at New York's LaGuardia Airport.  Canada's largest airline, based in Montreal in French-speaking Quebec, said Rousseau told the board he would retire

During his eight-day tour to the Indo-Pacific, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius repeatedly emphasized the importance of the rules‑based international order — the shared structures that have underpinned global cooperation for decades. Pistorius' hosts in Japan, Singapore and Australia readily seized on his remarks and emphasized how important this order is. In Canberra, for example, Australian

A commission of experts presented a 66-point plan on Monday that is meant to lower the ever-growing health insurance contributions that Germans have to pay into the system. Germany's health care system is one of the most expensive in the world, with state health insurers alone spending around €1 billion ($1.15 billion) per day on

A Ukrainian drone that crashed in southern Finland was found to have carried an unexploded warhead, Finnish police said on Monday. There were no reports of injuries or damage from the incident. The drone crashed on Sunday in an area near Kouvola, a southern Finnish town that lies some 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of

The humpback whale stuck for more than a week in two different spots in the Baltic Sea finally started to swim again on Monday evening, despite having shown signs of deteriorating health throughout the day. Water levels in Wismar Bay rose around 30 centimeters on Monday evening, presenting a chance for the whale to free itself, and rescuers had

It was a grand reception for the former leader of an Islamist militia: The government district around the chancellery in central Berlin was largely cordoned off this Monday, and Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, was received by both Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) and the head of state, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Not all political observers were

Germany's federal commissioner for culture and media, Wolfram Weimer, was heavily criticized recently when he rejected the expansion of the German National Library in favor of digital archiving. Although the former journalist has since indicated that the expansion might proceed, his initial decision has sparked debate about the role of books in a digital world. Today