White House Lists Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable
© Alex Wroblewski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
© Alex Wroblewski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
© Richard Termine for The New York Times
Panel declines to grant parole to Menendez, convicted over parents’ deaths, while brother Lyle faces hearing on Friday
The California board of parole hearings denied the release of Erik Menendez, on Thursday who has spent nearly 30 years in prison since he was convicted with his brother in the shooting deaths of their parents.
Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced in 1996 to life in prison for fatally shooting their father, Jose Menendez, and mother, Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. They were 18 and 21 at the time. While defense attorneys argued the brothers acted out of self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father, prosecutors said the brothers killed their parents for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
Continue reading...© Photograph: California Department of Corrections/AFP/Getty Images
© Photograph: California Department of Corrections/AFP/Getty Images
© Photograph: California Department of Corrections/AFP/Getty Images
Soldiers who had returned from Russia were honoured with a concert and relatives of troops killed in action were among those to attend a banquet
Kim Jong-un has hailed North Korean troops fighting alongside Russia in the war in Ukraine as “heroes”, at a ceremony to honour soldiers who recently returned from the conflict, state media said on Friday.
The North Korean leader said in a speech this week that his troops had displayed “fighting spirit of the heroes” during their operation to retake Russia’s Kursk region from Ukrainian forces – which had established a foothold there last year – the state news agency KCNA said.
Continue reading...© Photograph: KCNA VIA KNS/AFP/Getty Images
© Photograph: KCNA VIA KNS/AFP/Getty Images
© Photograph: KCNA VIA KNS/AFP/Getty Images
Thaksin Shinawatra is accused of lese-majesty in 2015 interview, while his daughter Paetongtarn will hear next week if she will be removed as prime minster
A criminal court in Thailand will decide on Friday whether former leader Thaksin Shinawatra violated the country’s strict lese-majesty law, the first of three court cases that could decide the fate of one of the country’s most powerful families.
Thaksin is accused of insulting the monarchy during an interview with South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo in 2015.
Continue reading...© Photograph: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images
© Photograph: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images
© Photograph: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images