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Robert Sparks received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville on Wednesday for the slayings of 9-year-old Harold Sublet and 10-year-old Raekwon Agnew.

The Taliban had in April banned the WHO and Red Cross, citing their 'suspicious activities' during vaccination campaigns, which threatened to deepen one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

Welcoming the leftist leader at the Kremlin, Putin reiterated support for Maduro but also indicated the Venezuelan president should be open to dialogue with his critics.

With a strong capacity in amphibious operations and performing a variety of tasks, the ship is independently developed by China, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Boris Johnson remains on a collision course with Parliament over his determination to extract Britain from the EU on Oct. 31, even if no divorce deal is reached.

Donald Trump has acknowledged pressing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

Thunberg was honoured 'for inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts,' the Right Livelihood Foundation said in a statement.

Earlier on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump had a stern message for China and its president, Xi Jinping, in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly.

Indonesia has spent months battling fires, often caused by slash-and-burn farming practices, as an El Nino weather pattern exacerbates the annual dry season and helps create a haze across the region.

The US President rejected accusations that he had offered Ukraine aid in only if it investigated the business dealings of Joe Biden's son.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced separate meetings with counterparts Donald Trump and Iran's Hassan Rouhani as he tries to engineer a meeting between the two on the sidelines of the UNGA.

The Swedish teen, who has become the global face of the growing youth movement against climate inaction, began by telling her audience: 'My message is that we'll be watching you,' eliciting laughter.

Tehran and Washington have been at loggerheads since May last year when Trump abandoned a 2015 nuclear deal and subsequently began reimposing sanctions on Iran in a stated campaign of 'maximum pressure'.

Many Democrats suggested that evidence indicating that US President Donald Trump pressed the Ukrainian government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden were changing their calculations about whether to seek his removal from office.

Trudeau, 47, was already under fire for an ethics lapse and other controversies, and the decades-old photos and videos that resurfaced last week of him engaging in activities he has acknowledged as "racist" dealt a fresh blow to his chances.

Karan Chopra is accused by food giant Heinz of syphoning off funds into fake customer accounts and is seeking damages as well as the return of GBP 648,000.