Day: May 23, 2012

South Korea is set to carry out the chemical castration of a serial rapist later this week, implementing recent legislation for the first time.

Officials from six world powers are due to hold talks with Iranian representatives in Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday about Tehran’s controversial nuclear program.

The Yemeni government blamed an affiliate of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on Tuesday for a massive suicide bombing that killed more than 100 soldiers a day earlier.

Workers trapped by a fire overnight in a platinum mine in southern Zimbabwe are being brought to the surface Tuesday, a statement from the mine’s owners said.

An Interpol investigation into social networking groups exchanging child abuse material has targeted 55 key suspects in 20 countries, including the United States, and 12 children have been identified and removed from harm, the agency said Tuesday.