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Japan has carried out its first execution under newly appointed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, with the hanging of Sunao Takami, who killed five people in a 2009 arson attack at an Osaka pachinko parlour.
Two former Sri Lankan security officials sentenced to death for their failure to prevent the 2019 Easter bombings will appeal their convictions to the Supreme Court, their lawyer announced on Saturday.
An Indonesian domestic worker has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Singapore for suffocating her 73-year-old employer's father with a pillow. The killing followed confrontation over stolen jewellery.