Facebook Twitter Pinterest Giulio Regeni?s murder has come to be seen as symbolic of Egypt?s high number of forced disappearances. Who murdered Giulio Regeni? Facebook Twitter Pinterest A candlelight vigil For Giulio Regeni In Rome. A senior US government official who served under Barack Obama said the Regeni murder had ?severely damaged the relationship? between Egypt and Italy. | Alexander Stille Read moreIndependent efforts by the Regeni family to demand answers have been met with silence.

LONDON ? Kuwaiti authorities hanged seven prisoners on Wednesday in a mass execution, including a member of the royal family. ?The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman, degrading punishment,? Samah Hadid of Amnesty International?s Beirut office said in a statement. The motive for the killing was unclear, though Kuwaiti authorities concluded that it was not political, according to local news reports. The prince who was executed was Faisal Abdullah al-Jaber al-Sabah, a captain in the Kuwaiti Army. Human rights groups condemned the executions, which were the first in Kuwait in more than three years and reflected a wider return to the death penalty in the region.

Officers have said the cause of death is not confirmed, but the death of the 46-year-old woman is being treated as suspiciousPolice have launched a murder investigation after the body of a woman was found in a Manchester house. Officers were called shortly before 1pm on Saturday to the home on Kinver Road in Moston, Manchester, where they found the body of a 46-year-old woman. A Greater Manchester Police (GMP) spokesman said the cause of death had not been confirmed, but the death was being treated as suspicious. ?There are many unanswered questions, but we have a team of experienced detectives from the serious crime division now working on this investigation . We have identified a suspect and we are doing all that we can to trace the individual.

An avalanche hit a military post and a patrol on Wednesday night and buried 21 Indian soldiers. Avalanches and landslides are common in Kashmir and have caused some of the heaviest tolls for the Indian and Pakistani armies camped near the Line of Control area. The Indian army says the death toll from an avalanche has risen to 14 as the bodies of four more soldiers who went missing in the accident were recovered in the highly militarized Line of Control area in the Himalayan region of Kashmir. Indian army spokesman Col. Rajesh Kalia said rescuers recovered the bodies early Friday after digging through piles of snow in the Gurez sector near the de facto frontier that separates the Indian- and Pakistani-held portions of the region. Seven were rescued.

Police in Thailand are seeking two suspects, a South African and a Briton, in the killing of a British man in the Thai resort town of Pattaya. He said Bonito, from South Africa, is suspected of being the gunman and Briton Turner the driver who whisked him away on a motorcycle after Tuesday`s shooting. Jitti said both men have left Thailand but he declined to say to where. They have suggested the killing may have been related to a business dispute. Police said witnesses and surveillance cameras helped identify the suspects.