Kuwait
Royal family member among 7 hanged
KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait hanged seven prisoners in a mass execution on Wednesday, including a royal family member and a woman convicted of killing 58 women and children when she set fire to a wedding tent — the first death sentences carried out in several years.
Those executed were a Bangladeshi, a Filipina, an Ethiopian, two Kuwaitis and two Egyptians, according to the state-run KUNA news agency. KUNA said that all had been convicted of murder except the Bangladeshi man, who was convicted of rape, kidnapping and theft.
The royal was identified as Faisal Abdullah Al Jaber Al Sabah, who killed his nephew in 2010.
Mexico
President considering
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MEXICO CITY — A government official said Wednesday that Mexico’s president is “considering” canceling next week’s visit to Washington following President Trump’s order to begin construction of a wall between the two countries.
The decision to rethink the visit comes amid growing outrage in Mexico, and a sense among many that President Enrique Peña Nieto has been too weak .
Russia
Bill decriminalizes domestic violence
MOSCOW — The Russian parliament on Wednesday passed the second reading of a controversial bill to decriminalize some forms of domestic violence.
The State Duma voted 385-2-1 to eliminate criminal liability for battery on family members that doesn’t cause bodily harm. The bill that makes battery on a family member punishable by a fine or a 15-day day arrest has yet to be approved in the third reading. It would then proceed to the upper house, largely a rubber-stamp body.
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