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The body of Yakub Memon is handed over to his family
The body of the man put to death today for his role in the 1993 Mumbai bombings has been handed back to his family.
Yakub Memon was hanged this morning at a high security prison in the western India.
He was put to death after Indian authorities rejected an overnight plea to delay his execution.
The 53-year-old had spent the last 20-years in prison after being sentenced to death for coordinating the money used to finance the bombings across Mumbai which left 257 people dead and over 700 others injured.
Memon is among 11 people convicted for the attacks, which are thought to have been retribution by Mumbai's Muslim-dominated underworld following a series of attacks on the city's Muslim community just months before which left over a thousand people dead.
Memon is the only one who didn't have his death penalty commuted to life-in-prison.
Malaysian official says debris found still cannot be confirmed as from Boeing 777
Malaysian officials are cautioning it may still take a couple of days to determine whether debris which washed up on the shores of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean is connected to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
A team from Malaysia has been dispatched to Reunion Island to investigate the find.
Initial reports have been suggesting the debris found on the remote French island in the southern Indian Ocean might be from a Boeing 777, the same model of airplane used on flight MH370.
The flight disappeared shortly after taking off on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8th, 2014.
Investigators say they believe someone on the plane shut down all the transmittors and directed the flight into the southern Indian Ocean.
Exhaustive searches of the ocean floor have yet to turn up any evidence of the lost flight.
A total of 239 people were onboard, two-thirds of whom are Chinese nationals.
155 Chinese loggers will be handed over on July 31
The Chiense government has confirmed the 155 Chinese nationals released as part of a mass amnesty are going to sent back to China tomorrow.
The group is among some 7-thousand prisoners released by the Myanmar government under the amnesty.
The Chinese nationals were handed lengthy prison terms just over a week ago.
Many were given 20-year prison sentences under a decades-old law in Myanmar connected to the destruction of public property.
The stiff sentences for the loggers prompted official complaints from the Chinese government.
93 more banks approved to issue certificates of deposit
China's central bank has given approval for 93 additional banks in China, including 3 foreign lenders, to issue large-denomination certificates of deposit.
This brings the total number of banks allowed to issue the certificates to 102.
Nine banks, including the "big four" state-owned lenders, began issuing the first batch of certificats of deposit in mid-June.
The certificates of deposit are tradable deposit agreements that allow lenders to bypass interest rate controls.
Restrictions on lending rates here in China have been largely eliminated.
However, deposit rates are still capped at 1.5-times the benchmark.
20 dead, over 30 injured as truck hits pilgrims in Mexico
At least 20 people dead and more than 30 others hurt after a truck plowed into a group of pigrims in Mexico.
Police in Mexico say the truck lost its brakes, and slammed into a crowd heading toward a Catholic church service.
Around 200 people were reportedly taking part in the pilgrimage to the church as part of a celebration for a patron saint.
26 killed, 42 missing in landslides in western Nepal
At least 26 people are dead and over 40 others are missing following landslides in western Nepal.
Nepalese authorities say the slide has taken out a number of homes in the area.
The area where the slide hit is a popular location for tourists.
None of the victims, as of yet, have been identified as foreign nationals.
The deadly slide comes as Nepal continues to dig itself out from under this year's deadly earthquakes which left thousands dead and infrastructure across large parts of the country in desperate need of repair.
23 confirmed dead in army helicopter crash in Laos
It's been confirmed there are no survivors from a military helicopter crash in Laos earlier this week.
The helicopter went down on Monday with 23 people on board.
It went into the side of a mountain in a remote area of Laos, killing the 4 crew and 19 other military personnel onboard.
It's believed the bad weather which had been hampering efforts to get to the crash site, were also a contributing factors in the crash itself.
U.S. Senate confirms Dunford as next top military officer
The U.S. Senate has confirmed General Joseph Dunford as the next chair of the US military's Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Dunford, who has been the head of the US Marine Corps since October, will take over for General Martin Dempsey on October 1st as the top U.S. military officer.
Dempsey is set to retire in September.
Dunford began his career as an infantry officer, and eventually moved up to become the head of Afghanistan war coalition in 2013 and 2014.
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