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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016 file photo, an Iranian woman holds the national flag during a rally commemorating the 37th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, in Tehran, Iran.

Woman convicted as juvenile faces death in Iran
CNN (CNN)Zeinab Sekaanvand is 22 years old. She has lost her unborn child. She has lost her family, who disowned her. She has lost her freedom to prison. And she is soon expected to lose the last thing... (photo: AP / Ebrahim Noroozi)

File - Peter Gerald Scully of Australia, right, walks in handcuffs with an unidentified detainee as they arrive at Cagayan de Oro city hall in southern Philippines on Tuesday, June 16, 2015.

Philippines signals it wants to bring back death penalty just so it can execute Australian paedophile
The Independent Prosecutors in the Philippines are calling for the death penalty to be reintroduced as punishment for alleged... (photo: AP)

Former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic looks across the court room at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague Netherlands in this image taken from video Wednesday Dec. 7, 2016.

Ratko Mladić must get life sentence, say war crimes prosecutors
The Guardian Lawyers at The Hague say any lesser punishment for Bosnian Serb military commander would be ‘insult to his victims’... (photo: AP / ICTY Video via AP)

Philippine Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo

Philippines vice-president resigns from cabinet over 'differences' with Rodrigo Duterte
The Guardian Former human rights lawyer Leni Robredo condemns president’s bloody war on drug and plans to reimpose death penalty... (photo: AP / Aaron Favila)

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FC Barcelona’s Luis Suarez of Uruguay reacts after scoring against River Plate during their final match at the FIFA Club World Cup soccer tournament in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015.

FourFourTwo’s Best 100 Football Players in the World 2016: 3 – Luis Suarez
FourFourTwo 10 min ago @https://twitter.com/@davidjaca David Cartlidge Topics David Cartlidge evaluates another terrific year for the Barcelona frontman… The weak link in... (photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko)

Stone figure of a god, one of many statues of guardian animals and gods lining the approach to the remarkable Ming tombs near Peking, China, is pictured in an undated photo.

645-Year-Old Chinese Banknote Found In Ming Dynasty Sculpture

WorldNews.com Art experts in Australia have found a rare paper banknote from the Ming Dynasty of Imperial China hidden inside an antique wooden sculpture that was being prepared for... (photo: AP / James Mills)

File - Dylann Roof appears at a bond hearing court in North Charleston, S.C., June 19, 2015.

Judge says Dylann Roof can act as his own attorney in Charleston shooting trial
The Los Angeles Times A white man accused of fatally shooting nine black... (photo: AP / Grace Beahm/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool, File)

Dylann Roof appears at a court hearing in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, July 16, 2015.

Judge: Dylann Roof Competent To Stand Trial In Church Shooting

WorldNews.com A U.S. federal judge ruled Friday Dylann Roof is competent to stand trial starting next week for his actions in the killing of nine worshipers at a South Carolina church... (photo: AP / Grace Beahm/The Post and Courier via AP, Pool)

Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, 29 October 2016

Trump’s Economic Plan; This Isn’t Going to Work
CounterPunch Will Donald Trump be good for the US economy? The American people seem to think so. According to a recent survey by Gallup “Americans have relatively high... (photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore)

Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, N.C., Thursday, June 18, 2015.

Judge holds closed-door hearing over Dylann Roof's competency

The Post and Courier A federal judge will hold a closed-door hearing this morning to discuss a new psychiatric evaluation of Emanuel AME Church shooter Dylann Roof to determine if the killer... (photo: AP / Chuck Burton)

Donald Trump becomes President: How the world is reacting to the election, from Russia to Israel
The Independent As a stunned America reflects on the deep divisions revealed in the country in the hours since Republican candidate Donald Trump won The White House, the rest of the... (photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore)

Sebastian Kurz, Minister for European and International Affairs of Austria, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventieth session.

Austria calls for EU’s swift change of policy on Turkey
Press TV Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has called for a swift change of the European Union’s policy vis-à-vis Turkey as Ankara widens its crackdown on... (photo: UN / Cia Pak)

A woman prays over a grave of a family member at a graveyard damaged by Islamic State extremists in Qayara, some 31 miles, 50 km, south of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016.

Human shields in Iraq: The new ISIS strategy in fight for Mosul
CNN Near Bashiqa, Iraq (CNN)The reports are disturbing: Tens of thousands of men, women and children snatched from their homes and forced into the center of Mosul as the... (photo: AP / Marko Drobnjakovic)