a Cairo court sentenced an Egyptian tycoon and a former policeman to death for the

"Cancelling his visit to Iran is the minimum that Frattini could and should do,” Elisabetta Zamparutti, Radical Deputy and Hands Off Cain director, said.

a Sudanese court sentenced another nine Darfur rebels to death for a 2008 attack on

North Korea has executed a former official in charge of inter-Korean relations,

A 51-year-old man was executed by lethal injection in Texas for the February 1986 murder of a young sales clerk as he robbed a convenience store.

Iranian authorities hanged two men convicted of drug trafficking and murder

Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded a Saudi national for a murder resulting from a

at a court in Damanhur, Egypt, Judge Mahmoud Selim sentenced 24 men to death for a shootout in May 2008.

a Saudi Arabian man was beheaded in Riyadh after being convicted of murder, the

an Iraqi provincial court sentenced two members of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's

eight men were hanged in Iran for murder and drug trafficking.

eight Islamist militants still on the run were sentenced to death by an Algerian