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President Joe Biden hasn’t blocked Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi from entering the U.S. to speak at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting in New York City next month. Raisi will attend even after an Iranian military officer was charged this month with trying to assassinate former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. For weeks, Senate Republicans have been calling for President Joe Biden to block Raisi, who the U.S. sanctioned in 2019 for his role in executing children in 2018 and 2019. Earlier this month, The Department of Justice charged an Iranian military officer with trying to hire people...

The Taliban have beheaded two boys for spying in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, officials say. The boys, 10 and 16, had been scavenging for food in bins near police headquarters when they were abducted. They are thought to have regularly accepted food handouts from police. Analysts say the Taliban are known to target those suspected of colluding with police. But the Taliban have denied responsibility in this incident. Spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi insisted to the BBC the group had not beheaded any children in the area. Food for family Kandahar's governor, however, condemned the acts as inhumane and...

Islamists said to execute 15-year-old Syrian boy for heresy AMMAN (Reuters) - Members of an al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo executed a 15-year-old boy in front of his parents on Sunday as punishment for what the group regarded as a heretical comment, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Mohammad Qataa was shot in the face and neck a day after being seized, said the pro-opposition monitoring group, which is based in Britain and uses a network of observers across Syria. "The Observatory cannot ignore these crimes, which only serve the enemies of the...