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Texas’ highest criminal court has overturned the death sentence of a Harris County man who was on death row for nearly half a century. Clarence Curtis Jordan, 70, was first convicted in 1978 of murdering Joe L. Williams, a 40-year-old Houston grocer. Jordan, who is intellectually disabled, was then found in subsequent years to be …
JAKARTA, April 11 (Reuters) – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto will depart to Russia in the coming days and is expected to meet President Vladimir Putin during the visit, Indonesia’s foreign minister said on Saturday. Minister Sugiono said the visit would discuss the potential for Indonesia to buy Russian oil as an alternative source amid global …
LONDON, April 11 (Reuters) – Britain’s government said on Saturday it had put on hold its deal to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands – home to the U.S.-British Diego Garcia air base – which has been criticised by U.S. President Donald Trump. The Times newspaper said planned legislation underpinning the deal to cede the …
NAIROBI, April 11 (Reuters) – Djibouti’s President Ismael Omar Guelleh nL8N3W50Q9 has won re-election with 97.8% of the vote, state-owned Radio Television Djibouti said on Saturday, handing him a sixth term that extends his 27-year rule over the small but strategically located East African country. Guelleh posted an image of himself with the French word …
April 11 (Reuters) – Top U.S. and Iranian officials gathered in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday to hold talks that seek to end their…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — From Final Four to roster rebuild. That’s what Texas women’s basketball coach Vic Schaefer is facing after a group of key players hit the transfer portal this week. Schaefer still has three-time All-American Madison Booker to build around, but the departures were jarring. A program coming off consecutive Final Four appearances …
Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time — all without a warrant. The software from Fog Data Science, adopted this January in Nevada through a Department of Public Safety contract, pulls information from smartphone apps …
BOGOTA, April 10 (Reuters) – Colombia will raise tariffs on neighboring Ecuador to 100% from 30%, Colombia’s trade ministry said on Friday, matching Ecuador’s measure from a day earlier amid an escalating trade and diplomatic spat between the two South American nations. Ecuador has in recent months hiked a tariffs against its larger neighbor citing …
SEATTLE (AP) — Oh, snap. The unveiling of Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki’s statue had an unforced error on Friday — a broken bat. A snapping noise could be heard as the bronze bat flopped down and confetti sprouted up. “Here it is! The statue of one of the greatest players in the history of …
By Simon Lewis and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. team led by Vice President JD Vance left for Islamabad on Friday for weekend talks with Iran, even as both sides accused each other of breaking commitments made to secure a temporary ceasefire. White House officials said they were skeptical that the …