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Nuclear incidents are not a thing of the past associated only with decrepit reactors in a by-gone Soviet bloc.
Green MEP Dr Molly Scott Cato has written to 15 local authorities asking what plans they have in place to deal with an emergency nuclear incident at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
Her question comes as it emerges that Chernobyl was one of the victims of a massive cyber-attack that affected businesses and organisations across the Ukraine, Russia and parts of Europe earlier this week.
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A bold vision that puts social and environmental wellbeing at the core.Last week there was a summit of EU leaders with key issues for Europe’s future on their agenda, including migration, security, jobs and Brexit.It was the same week that marked the one year anniversary of the UK’s vote to29
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The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday said it would allow the state of Ohio to use a certain 3-drug mixture to carry out lethal injections, paving the way for the state to resume executing those on death row.The full court's opinion, decided 8-6 mostly along the court's28
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Negotiations are currently underway at the UN to create a legally-binding treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons. Over 130 countries are participating.The UK is not.And this non-participation raises serious doubts about the UK’s compliance with its international obligations, including its28
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a Texas death row inmate Monday, making Erick Davila's case ineligible for review in federal court.A Texas death row inmate whose case made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court could now face an execution date after the justices ruled against him in a27
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Whatever the intention behind Theresa May’s remarks, they were highly regrettable.The Grotius Lecture at the Law Society, London, was delivered this year on 26 June by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights.He said:Earlier this month, Britain’s Prime Minister27
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"13 people were sentenced to death for producing and selling drugs."Eight executed immediately after open hearing in a stadium in notorious drug producing area of Guangdong provinceTwo courts in southern China’s Guangdong province sentenced 13 people to death for producing and selling drugs at a27
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Burmese migrant workers Wai Phyo (left) and Zaw LinOn the morning of 15 September 2014 the battered bodies of two British backpackers, David Miller (24) and Hannah Witheridge (23) were found on Sairee Beach, Koh Tao, Thailand. Earlier that night they had
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António GuterresJakarta. United Nations secretary general António Guterres urged the international community on Monday (26/06) to adopt an approach based on prevention and treatment to address drug abuse and drug trafficking.In a statement coinciding with the International Day Against Drug Abuse26
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Tyrone NolingCLEVELAND, Ohio - Sentenced to death for murders he says he did not commit when he was 23, Tyrone Noling, now 45, and his attorneys believe one way to find "the actual perpetrator" is through state-of-the-art DNA testing.For nearly 9 years, lower courts have blocked Noling's access to26
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"The TV series corrupt officials can never escape the long reach of the law"The execution of a former senior Chinese Communist Party official last month could have been lifted straight from the plot of "In the Name of the People", the hugely successful anti-corruption drama that is currently
Speculation is swirling that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy could announce his retirement as early as this term, The Associated Pressand CNN reported Saturday.Kennedy is considered the most pivotal justice on the Supreme Court, often known for casting the tie-breaking vote in key29
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According to the Iranian state-run news agency, Rokna, a juvenile offender identified as Farshid, 22, is facing execution after he was sentenced to death at the age of 16 for the charge of murder. There is no information available at this time regarding where Farshid is detained.Farshid reportedly12 jurors deliberated just half-an-hour Wednesday before convicting a man of murdering a security guard outside a popular North Miami-Dade restaurant.Now, they will become the 1st jury in Miami to be asked to agree unanimously on meting out the death penalty.Wednesday's verdict came 3 months28
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‘The cultural practice of passing on large farms intact to one son needs to be challenged’.The Scottish Government is to establish a Women in Agriculture Taskforce to consider issues such as better succession planning, more appropriate health and safety, better access to training and28
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Florida's death chamberA former chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court says the state’s death penalty process will be left in “chaos” as a result of recent court decisions involving how the process is administered.In the past, a jury would recommend whether someone convicted of murder should27
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Theresa May ‘must put patient safety before political dogma’ and scrap the pay cap.Nurses and healthcare assistants gathered at nurse Edith Cavell’s grave in the grounds of Norwich Cathedral for a candlelight vigil on 26 June at the start of a ‘summer of protest’ to highlight growing anger
The U.S. Supreme Court's latest term, which ended this week as the justices began their summer recess, saw death-penalty opponents achieve some notable victories even as the Court moved further away from abolishing capital punishment.In one of those wins Monday, the justices vacated an Alabama
The Alabama Senate gave final passage on May 18th to the "Fair Justice Act" (Senate bill 187), a measure designed to speed up state appeals in death penalty cases, and on May 26th, Gov. Kay Ivey signed it into law.That was also the day that Alabama carried out its long-delayed execution of Leggi26
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“We believe it is vital that this disaster marks a turning point…”In an open letter to Prime Minister Theresa May, over 70 leading organisations and figures from the UK’s safety and health profession have jointly called for a political sea change in attitude towards health and safety regulation26
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SOUTH DAKOTA - The Pennington County Public Defender's Office is asking the county for about $350,000 to help defend a man facing the death penalty for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend.The Rapid City Journal reports that the extra costs in Jonathon Klinetobe's case involve expert25
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In the past year, two states have seen their lethal injection drugs expire — forcing state officials to search for new drugs or scrap executions altogether.It’s possible Alabama could soon face a similar hurdle.A number of factors — the pace of executions, new information about the state’s last24
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(CNN) - TV kliegs lit up live shots in one corner of the parking lot, where protesters prayed, preached and crowded onto the scene. Midnight, January 5, 1994, was coming fast.I rushed to clear the first gate and head down the empty, well-lit walkway past B Block, a close supervision wing at29
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"Last Address" commemorative plaqueThe country's Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes on Tuesday launched a new project to commemorate victims of former Czechoslovakia's communist regime. Called "Last Address", the idea was inspired by similar initiatives in Russia. Within the project29
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Texas' death row, Polunsky Unit, LivingstonFor inmates on death row, having a bad lawyer just got deadlier.In a ruling Monday against a Texas death row inmate who claimed his lawyer failed to argue his case adequately, the Supreme Court ruled that federal courts could not review
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The death penalty, the Supreme Court claims, is an act of retribution; so whatever suffering the condemned endure is part of the price they pay for their crimes. Punishment, after all, is meant to inflict pain. And while the Court disapproves of any form of physical abuse of prisoners (such as28
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Deputy governor-elect Sandiaga Salahuddin UnoDeputy governor-elect Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno said on Tuesday that he planned to establish a sharia tourism zone in Kwitang, Senen, Central Jakarta.Sandiaga explained that he had been inspired to build such a zone after he visited Ali bin Abdurrahmad Al27
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Lynching in AmericaPeople of color in the United States, particularly young black men, are often assumed to be guilty and dangerous. In too many situations, black men are considered offenders incapable of being victims themselves. As a consequence of this country’s failure to address effectively
The use of the death penalty in the Americas dates to the 15th century when European settlers brought with them the practice of capital punishment. Because nowhere in the US Constitution is capital punishment explicitly addressed, the death penalty was imbued with intrinsic constitutionality by the27
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TOKYO - A 90-year-old triple murderer, reportedly Japan's oldest death row prisoner, has died from suffocation at a prison in Fukuoka Prefecture, the government said Monday.Takeshige Hamada was convicted of killing three people in the prefecture for insurance money over a two-year period from26
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A team of power company workers was trudging through a seldom-visited thicket in Southwest Washington when they spotted something odd in a ditch.Protruding from the grass was a rectangular slab of granite.They looked closer, and an inscription on the surface came into focus. What they saw Leggi
Morva is Hungarian-AmericanThe Hungarian Government and European Union are trying to stop the execution of a Virginia inmate.William Morva is set to be executed on July 6.Morva was convicted of killing Montgomery County Sheriff's Deputy, Corporal Eric Sutphin, and security guard Derrick25
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Someone was trying to kill him. William C. Morva was certain of it.He couldn’t breathe and he was withering away, he told his mother in a jailhouse call.“Somebody wants me to die and I don’t know who it is,” he said. “They know my health is dwindling, okay?”He sounded paranoid. His voice Leggi24
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Click hereto Google translate the following text into English (or into your own language).« La guillotine rend tout dérisoire.» - Robert BadinterLes locaux de la Folie-Regnault, moins fréquentés que les abords de la Roquette un jour d'exécution, n'en furent pas moins visités à de nombreuses