the Radical Euro MP Marco Pannella, still on his indefinite hunger strike along with the other Radical top members, submitted the following question to the EU Council: "The bureaucratic structure of the Council is such that it has managed to create a situation of control and edging which has the potential of being destructive to the political direction adopted by the Council".

an Egyptian court sentenced two gang leaders who had confessed to the murder and rape of 20 street

the Supreme Court of Belarus imposed

Saudi authorities beheaded a Saudi national convicted of smuggling drugs into the country, the Interior Ministry said.

Arizona executed a 50-year-old man by lethal injection for the murder of a camper in 1987, state prison officials said.

a japanese man was sentenced to death for bashing two men then burying them alive.

a court in Ho Chi Minh City Monday rejected appeals against death sentences

African parliamentarians backed death sentences imposed in Libya on five Bulgarian nurses and a

A Pakistani national convicted of drug trafficking has been hanged in Kuwait, officials said.

Three people convicted of murder and two others found guilty of drug smuggling were hanged in Iran, AFP reported.

A Sharia court in Nigeria's north-eastern Bauchi State has sentenced a man to death for raping two teenage

Saudi authorities beheaded two Ethiopians convicted of killing a Saudi national in an armed robbery and