Huawei's Meng Wanzhou 'to be freed' in US deal
A senior executive of Chinese technology giant Huawei is due to appear virtually in a US court after a deal to resolve fraud charges, according to media reports.
Meng Wanzhou was detained nearly three years ago in Canada at the request of US authorities, sparking an international row.
Ms Meng says she is innocent and has been fighting extradition to the US.
The incident has strained China's relations with the US and Canada.
If the charges against Meng Wanzhou are dropped her extradition case in Canada will be thrown out and she could be free as early as Friday.
‘Necessary for security’: veteran Taliban enforcer says amputations will resume
The Taliban will resume executions and the amputation of hands for criminals they convict, in a return to their harsh version of Islamic justice.
According to a senior official – a veteran leader of the hardline Islamist group who was in charge of justice during its previous period in power – executions would not necessarily take place in public as they did before.
The Taliban’s first period ruling Afghanistan during the 1990s, before they were toppled by a US-led invasion in 2001 following the 9/11 attacks, was marked by the grisly excesses of its perfunctory justice system, which included public executions in the football stadium in Kabul.
‘The kingdom of empty shelves’: European newspapers blame Brexit for UK supply chain crisis
Continent’s press liken situation to 1970s Winter of Discontent and ‘boycotted Cuba’
Britain’s growing fuel and supply chain crisis – which has seen petrol stations closed, empty restaurants and supermarket shelves and the government forced to subsidise carbon dioxide production – has provoked significant comment in European newspapers.
While the government has insisted the problems are largely caused by the pandemic, much of the media on the continent is pointing the finger at Brexit.
The front page of the French outlet Liberation featured a finished roll of toilet paper with the final sheet emblazoned with “Brexit”, above the headline “The future that failed to deliver”.
Cannabis in elite sports: Performing on a high
What's wrong with lighting up a joint ahead of the big game? Things aren't quite that simple when it comes to cannabis in competitive sports. The World Anti-Doping Agency is set to review its list of banned substances.
Sha'Carri Richardson would have been a favorite to win a medal in Tokyo. The sprinter won the 100 meters at the US Olympic trials. Then she was slapped with a 30-day ban from competition after testing positive for marijuana use. This forced the 21-year-old from Texas to miss the 2021 Summer Olympics.
"I know what I did," she told American broadcaster NBC.
Shining Path: Peru's guerrilla group all but defeated
Peru's Maoist Shining Path guerrilla movement, whose founder Abimael Guzman's body was cremated on Friday, is listed as a terrorist organization by the Lima government.
All but dismantled, a few members remain armed and active. This is an overview of the group blamed for tens of thousands of deaths.
- What is the Shining Path? -
The extremist rebel group was born from a split in the Peruvian Communist Party and rooted in the ideology of Chinese communist revolutionary Mao Zedong.
Indian photographer in video stomps on man shot by Assam police
Muslims protesting against government’s forced displacement fired at by policemen, killing at least two and wounding many.
A video of a photographer stomping and attacking the body of a man shot by the police in the northeastern state of Assam has gone viral in India, triggering uproar and protests.
In the video, which has not been independently verified by Al Jazeera, a man is seen running with a stick towards a group of policemen in riot gear, holding firearms, in Sipajhar village in Assam’s Darrang district on Thursday.
The photographer, identified as Bijoy Bania, is also seen with the policemen, who immediately open fire on the charging man.
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