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Afghan women chant slogans during a protest demanding justice for a woman who was beaten to death by a mob after being falsely accused of burning a Quran last week, in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Men and women of all ages carried banners bearing the bloodied face of Farkhunda, a 27-year-old religious scholar killed last week by a mob.

Farkhunda murder: Afghan court cancels death sentences
The Guardian Three of the men convicted for their part in beating woman to death in Kabul are instead given 20-year sentences, with a fourth jailed for 10 years ... (photo: AP / Massoud Hossaini)

London cyclist deaths: What other cities could teach the capital
BBC News By Caroline Lowbridge BBC News 22 June 2015 From the section England Ghost bikes are sometimes left at sites where cyclists have been killed A female cyclist has died in a crash with a tipper truck,... (photo: WN / marzena)

In this Saturday, March 14, 2015 photo, Makhni Begum holds a photograph of her son Shafqat Hussain who was sentenced to death, in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan.

Pakistan executes Shafqat Hussain despite international appeal

CNN Islamabad (CNN)After numerous postponements and despite appeals from human rights group across the world, Pakistan executed Shafqat Hussain on Tuesday. Hussain, 24, was convicted of killing a child... (photo: AP / M.D. MughalM.D. Mughal)

File - Dylann Roof appears via video before a judge in North Charleston, S.C, on Friday, June 19, 2015.

Dylann Roof: not guilty plea for man accused of killing nine in US church
The Guardian The man accused of killing nine parishioners at a black church in South Carolina wants to plead guilty, but his lawyer advised him not to do so ... (photo: AP / Centralized Bond Hearing Court, of Charleston, S.C.)

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Charleston killer pleads not guilty to hate crime charges
Press TV The young white man who shot dead nine black worshippers at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, has pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges. Dylann Roof has... (photo: Creative Commons / Nomader)

MH17: Julie Bishop’s UN speech against Russian veto her finest hour
The Australian This is a big call. But surely Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has never in her political career, indeed in her life, had a finer public moment than in the short, crisp,... (photo: UN / Mark Garten)

Walter Palmer Closes Practice: Hunter Who Killed Cecil The Lion Shuts Down Dental Practice
The Inquisitr CBS 2 News reports that with the public outcry over Cecil’s cold blooded death at the hands of the American dentist, Palmer’s practice is shutting down.... (photo: Via Youtube)

A Sudanese woman and her undernourished infant seek treatment at Malha Hospital, North Darfur, after returning from Libya, 6 March, 2011.

U.S. trafficking report: What to look for

CNN (CNN)After a four-week delay, the U.S. State Department will release its 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) on Monday. The annual report analyzes the efforts of 188... (photo: UN / Albert Gonzalez Farran)

Tunisian police officers gather at the entrance of the morgue of the Charles Nicolle hospital in Tunis Tunisia, Thursday, March 19, 2015. The radical Islamic State Group claimed responsibility Thursday for the attack on a famed Tunis museum that left 23 people dead. (AP Photo / Michel Euler)

Tunisia adopts new anti-terror law despite rights concerns
Deccan Chronicle Tunis: The Tunisian parliament adopted a new anti-terror law overnight Friday aimed at beefing up powers to confront a jihadist threat following deadly attacks but which... (photo: AP / Michel Euler)

Federal investigators respond to the scene of a shooting at the Grand Theatre on Thursday, July 23, 2015, in Lafayette, La.

Louisiana shooting: Lafayette cinema killer 'tried to flee'

BBC News 24 July 2015 From the section US & Canada Police have identified the gunman who killed two women and injured nine others before shooting himself inside a Louisiana... (photo: AP / Denny Culbert)

Bystanders look on as emergency personnel respond to the scene of a deadly shooting at the Grand Theatre in Lafayette, La., Thursday, July 23, 2015.

Shooting At Louisiana Theater Leaves 3 Dead, Including Gunman

Huffington Post Two people were killed when a lone gunman opened fire inside a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana on Thursday night. Seven other people, who ranged in age from teens... (photo: AP / Denny Culbert)

James Holmes, Aurora theater shooting suspect in the courtroom

James Holmes found guilty of Aurora theater fatal shooting
Press TV Jurors have convicted Colorado theater shooter James Holmes in the 2012 attack on defenseless moviegoers at a midnight Batman premiere in Aurora. Holmes was found guilty... (photo: AP / Denver Post, RJ Sangosti, Pool)

File - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left waves as North Korean military officers clap during a mass meeting of North Korea's ruling party at a stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea on Saturday April 14, 2012.

North Korea has carried out 1,400 public executions since 2000, report claims
The Guardian According to South Korean research, citizens are forced to witness public deaths in an effort to keep them in line. Daily NK reports ... (photo: AP / Ng Han Guan)