Carlton Gary declined to request a last meal ahead of his execution Thursday. A convicted serial killer known as the "Stocking Strangler" for terrorizing a Georgia city in the late 1970s isn't interested in a special last meal before he's scheduled to die - opting instead for a standard hamburger and hot dog, authorities said.

Is Duterte afraid of the ICC? "In fact, the Philippines now has an International Humanitarian Law Act, Republic Act 9851, which allows our courts to try cases cognizable by the ICC under the principle of complementarity. "Let him be courageous enough to face investigation to prove that he has nothing to hide", he said. He even said, albeit in jest, that he was willing to be executed through a firing squad if proven guilty.

He added: "Frankly Russia should go away, it should shut up ". Relations between Russian Federation and the United Kingdom have dropped to perhaps their lowest since the end of the Cold War, after the UK - backed by allies including the US, Germany, and France - accused Russian Federation of being behind the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England.

The operation came as a response to the U.S. announcement that it had been training a 30,000-strong border security force in Syria, comprised of the Syrian Kurds' People's Protection Units (YPG), which is considered by Turkey to be affiliated with the Kurdistan's Workers' Party (PKK), regarded by Ankara as a terrorist organization.

But he said "a long way is in front of us" to fully fund the agency, which went into the conference facing a $446 million gap in financing this year after the USA, which has provided a third of the agency's budget, announced it was withholding aid.

Mueller's investigation and charges "spans a decade before the presidential election of 2016, dating back to 2006, and it contains no allegations of coordination between individuals associated with President Trump's campaign and the Russian government", reads one motion to dismiss some of the charges against Manafort.

Just over half said risks were tilted to the downside, jumping from 30% in February and the highest share since September. The tariffs would cost lost trade worth $2.6 billion a year for the European Union and $1.1 billion for South Korea, according to Chad Bown, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Franco was shot dead in a vehicle on Joaquim Palhares Street , in the Central Region of Rio, at about 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Globo.com reports. People look on as Rio's Civil Police officers transport Brazilian politician Marielle Franco's auto, where she was found shot dead in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil on March 15, 2018 .

The Trump administration has also accused Russian Federation of a deliberate operation to penetrate the U.S. energy grid which is still continuing. They represent an aggressive action from Trump, who has been criticized for not doing enough to crack down on Moscow after his 2016 election victory.

The woman had just exited her vehicle in her driveway when the thug tried to grab her. Detectives say the pair knew each other. Police said the 32-year-old ran from the scene and was found nearby suffering from stab wounds. Ludwick defended his friend and said the victim in Peru should have been more careful when she realized who Van der Sloot was. Ludwick appeared on the Oxygen series that followed Holloway's father and a private investigator as they chased a lead in the case , in which ...

A plane lost £265,000,000 of diamonds, platinum and gold after the precious cargo fell out of a loose hatch in the hold. ( Kitco News ) - Gold is truly a gift from the heavens, especially in eastern Russian Federation after gold bars fell from a cargo plane Thursday.

The interview, which is scheduled to air on Sunday, is the first with a Saudi leader for a US television network since 2005. Prior to Bin Salman's trip to the U.S., the Saudi cabinet adopted a national policy for a "peaceful" nuclear program.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts and Israel said it could not say who was behind it, though it held Hamas responsible as the de facto power in the Palestinian enclave. In light of the threat, the army has a number of protocols for how to deal with suspicious objects near the security fence so explosives can be disarmed or destroyed in a controlled explosion.

They were last seen in a 2004 or 2005 Malibu Impala, state police said. Police now say they believe the children's father, Lynn Washington, picked them up. earlier on Wednesday. The children were in the care of a family friend at the time of her death. Lynn Washington is a black male about five feet nine inches tall and 180 pounds with tattoos on his neck, arms and chest.

They have warned people in Austin not to move or touch any suspicious packages and call 911 immediately instead. They are also connection it to a March 2 attack that killed a 39-year-old black man. 'We are not ruling anything out at this point, ' Manley said on Monday. There have been more than 370 suspicious package calls as of 8:30 a.m. today, since the first explosion on March 2, according to police.

Police have said that the killing of Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova last month may have been linked to his reporting, a revelation that has prompted outrage across the central European country and thrown its politics into turmoil.

Faisal said Pakistan wants peace in the region and was against any arms race but it was also not oblivious to the arms buildup in its neighbourhood. Earlier in the day, the four top diplomats issued a joint statement in which they hailed their growing partnership and doubled down on their commitment to broaden ties based on respect, trust and good neighborliness.

It's understood that Varadkar will invite the President Trump to come on a State Visit to Ireland . Trump recently signed a massive tax cut into law, aimed at levelling the playing field with countries like Ireland that have low corporate taxes.

Tusk said the U.S. president's proposal "is a bad sign for transatlantic relations" and underlined the need to "go back to EU-U.S. trade talks now". Boeing (BA -3.6%) shares appear headed for their third straight loss, as investors fear the company is a prime target for retaliation if Pres.

A San Leandro student, by the name of Julian posted live updates of the lockdown on Twitter under the user handle @Julian25L. No weapons were found. Police say everyone was safe, and students were dismissed at their scheduled time. Students across the nation protested gun violence on Wednesday by walking out of their schools for a 17-minute demonstration. Many rallies went longer.

Peele has a full slate of projects at the moment and is now filming a part in horror movie Abruptio as well as writing another genre-bending script following the success of Get Out . While the movie moves forward, a deal has been made with Simon & Schuster for a book to be written by Chapman and Selick to be published around the film's release.

It said it hopes that consolidating in the Dutch city will simplify its structure, give it more flexibility to buy or sell brands, and help drive its long-term performance. Under the changes the company will operate three divisions. 'The changes announced today also further strengthen Unilever's corporate governance, creating for the first time in our history a "one share, one vote" principle for all our shareholders'.

The RJD registered emphatic victories in the Araria Lok Sabha and Jehanabad assembly seats yesterday. Singh's controversial remarks invited strong comments from opposition parties, with RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav saying the BJP should withdraw support from Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar if it did not believe in his leadership.

Dhinakaran's party launch is seen as a means to "retrieve" the ruling party from the "clutches of traitors". Dinakaran has unveiled the party's new flag along with several of his supporters. Dinakaran said that the symbol will be used by his party for the time being. "How long can the 1.5 crore cadres work without a name?", he asked, adding that for the last four months, the party workers had faced difficulties in securing permissions from the authorities for party events in the absence of ...

Birmingham Police tell CBS 42 News that two people have been shot and the suspect is dead. Check back for details. One victim died, while the second is said to be in stable condition, according to Williston. The incident happened around or just after 7 p.m. Wednesday at the hospital located at 1201 11th Avenue South in Birmingham. UAB cancelled all surgeries scheduled for Thursday at UAB Highlands but said all other hospital operations would continue as normal.

Not only did a listing for "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 2018 " appear on the website, but the details suggest the game will be officially revealed at this year's E3 convention. Ubisoft has not announced anything official yet, therefore it would be wise to wait until the French company officially unveils a new part in the Splinter Cell series.

Prior to the incident, Perez tweeted saying that the stunt was Ruiz's idea. Ruiz was holding a 1.5-inch thick hardcover encyclopedia in front of his chest to try to stop the bullet, but Perez fired the gun from around a foot away and the pojectile traveled through the book and into his body.

The Huskies and Beavers went into overtime but UW was without leading scorers Jaylen Nowell and Noah Dickerson due to foul trouble. Since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, 304 of 306 teams to win at least 13 league games in a power conference through the 2016-17 season made the tournament.

He also stated that the government was putting in efforts to make sure that Indian jawans are equipped with the latest equipment when present at the war front. To a query, the minister denied the probability of deploying the Army to tackle Naxals in the Bastar region, which is considered as the hotbed of the ultras.

Loyola may still be the underdog as the No. 11 seed, but this is one of the closest matchups in the first round. The Loyola Ramblers finished 28-5 overall, 15-3 in the Missouri Valley Conference . Loyola is back in the tournament for the first time since 1985, when the Ramblers were knocked out by the likes of Patrick Ewing and Georgetown.

Mr Corbyn described the Salisbury attack as an "appalling act of violence", as he urged the government to ensure its response is "decisive, proportionate and based on clear evidence". Later, his spokesman, Seumas Milne, said there was a "problematic" history over the use of intelligence by politicians and left open the possibility of Russian Federation being framed.

The story fueled an apparently baseless conspiracy narrative among right-wing websites and commentators: That Rich's killing was payback for leaking to WikiLeaks, and that Russian sources weren't responsible for hacking the DNC's computers, as federal officials have said.

However, questions about Washington's willingness and capacity to negotiate have been raised by former officials and experts, some citing departing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's decision past year to eliminate the post of senior envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan...

The White House hosted 19 nations to discuss the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip . The Washington meeting on Gaza was an attempt to exploit the humanitarian situation in the besieged coastal strip for political ends, Palestinian's head of delegation to the United States , Husam Zomlot, said on Tuesday.

The convoy is headed for the town of Douma, the largest and most populated in eastern Ghouta, according to Douma-based media activist Youssef Boustani. Bombardment by the Syrian regime and its ally Russian Federation killed 25 civilians, among them three children, in the embattled rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Wednesday, a monitor said.