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Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has strongly condemned a recent Israeli strike on Doha, calling it a “treacherous attack” that shocked the world.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he didn't rule out further strikes on Hamas leaders "wherever they are" as the heads of Arab and Islamic states held a summit to show support for Qatar after Israel's attack on the Gulf country last week.

Israel destroyed a score of buildings in Gaza City, killing at least 16 Palestinians, local health authorities said on Monday, while US Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the war with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.

Arab foreign ministers have met in Doha to discuss a draft resolution ahead of Monday's emergency Arab-Islamic summit to discuss the recent Israeli attack on Doha that targeted Hamas leaders.

British police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a three-year-old British girl who vanished in Portugal in 2007, said a 49-year-old German man remained a suspect but had refused to be interviewed.

US President Donald Trump said on Monday he would call a national emergency and federalise Washington DC after Mayor Muriel Bowser said its police would not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The man arrested in the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk is not cooperating with authorities, but investigators are working to establish a motive for the shooting by talking to his friends and family.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said people have a right to peaceful protest after more than 100,000 demonstrators joined an anti-immigration march through London on Saturday, but he condemned assaults on police.

Israeli forces destroyed at least 30 residential buildings in Gaza City and forced thousands of people from their homes, Palestinian officials said, as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived on Sunday to discuss the future of the conflict.

The death toll from last week's anti-corruption protests in Nepal has risen to 72, the country's health ministry said on Sunday, as search teams continued to recover bodies from shopping malls and other buildings damaged in the unrest.

Ukraine may intentionally reduce the quality of mobile communications during Russian drone attacks to stop the networks being used to coordinate strikes, Chief of the General Staff Andriy Hnatov was quoted as saying on Sunday.

The Utah trade school student jailed on suspicion of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk faces formal charges next week, according to the governor, from an act of violence widely seen as a foreboding inflection point in US politics.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for peace on Saturday in Manipur state, the scene of two years of deadly ethnic violence, as he unveiled a package of development projects there worth nearly $1 billion.

Twelve soldiers were killed in northwest Pakistan on Saturday in an ambush by rebels on an army convoy, officials said.

European Union countries have shelved plans to approve a new climate change target next week, after pushback from governments including France and Germany over plans to quickly land a deal, three EU diplomats said on Friday.

Nepal's President Ramchandra Paudel dissolved parliament and called for fresh elections on March 5, his office said late on Friday, following a week of deadly violence that culminated in the appointment of the country's first woman Prime Minister in the interim.

The UN Security Council has strongly condemned the detention of at least 21 personnel by the Houthis, as well as the forced entry into premises of the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the seizure of UN property, in violation of international law.

An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck near the east coast of Russia's Kamchatka region on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly voted to endorse a declaration outlining "tangible, timebound, and irreversible steps" towards a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians ahead of a meeting of world leaders.

At least nine people died when a rescue boat capsized during flood relief efforts in Pakistan, authorities said on Friday.

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani will be visiting New York and Washington on Friday, and is expected to meet US officials to discuss the Israeli strike and the status of ceasefire talks in Gaza, Politico reported on Thursday.

Two people appeared to have sustained minor injuries after a United Airlines Flight 32 heading to Cebu in the Philippines made an emergency landing at an airport in Japan's western city of Osaka Friday night, Kyodo news agency reported.

A young Utah man suspected of killing the conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a university forum has been taken into custody, Governor Spencer Cox said on Friday, ending a two-day manhunt.

Nepal's former chief justice, Sushila Karki, is likely to be appointed as interim prime minister, a source aware of the talks told Reuters on Friday, after intense anti-graft protests led to the resignation of KP Sharma Oli.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced on Thursday to 27 years and three months in prison hours after being convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election.

The UN Security Council condemned recent strikes on Qatar's capital Doha on Thursday, but did not mention Israel in the statement agreed to by all 15 members, including Israel's ally the US .

The Qatari capital is set to host an emergency Arab-Islamic summit next Sunday and Monday to discuss the recent Israeli attack on Doha that targeted Hamas leaders.

The sniper who killed the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was still on the loose on Friday even as investigators flooded the internet with photos and video of a man believed to have carried out Wednesday's politically charged killing at a Utah university.

The United Nations Security Council is set to meet on Friday to discuss drone incursions into its airspace that the Polish president described as an attempt by Russia to test Warsaw and NATO's response.

Qatar hit back at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a strongly worded statement early on Thursday, describing his remarks about the Gulf country's hosting of a Hamas office as "reckless".

Earthquakes that flattened villages in eastern Afghanistan this month destroyed homes and livestock, the only assets owned by most families, leaving survivors with almost nothing to rebuild as aid runs thin.

US investigators said on Thursday they had found the bolt-action rifle they believed was used to kill the influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk and released images of a "person of interest" as they searched for the shooter they described as "college age."

The death toll from this week's floods on the Indonesian island of Bali has risen to 14 people from nine, a government official said on Thursday, though the rain has stopped and water levels are receding in most areas.

Israel struck the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the northern province of al-Jawf on Wednesday, with the Houthi health ministry saying it killed 35 people and wounded 131 others.

Protesters across France obstructed highways, burned barricades and clashed sporadically with police on Wednesday in a show of anger against President Emmanuel Macron, the political elite and planned spending cuts.

Canada is evaluating its relationship with Israel after the attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar, foreign minister Anita Anand said on Wednesday, in the latest sign of unhappiness with the Israeli government.

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday Israel's decision to strike Qatar was not made by him but by the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, adding that a unilateral attack on Qatar does not serve American or Israeli interests.

Soldiers patrolled the streets of Kathmandu on Wednesday, amid indefinite curfew in Nepal's capital following two days of deadly anti-graft protests that prompted Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to resign.

Floods on Indonesia's holiday island of Bali have killed at least six people this week and blocked off major roads in the capital, officials said on Wednesday, disrupting a busy travel destination.

A vaccine to protect Australia's koalas against chlamydia has been approved for the first time, a development that scientists believe could stop the spread of the deadly disease that has ravaged populations of the beloved endangered animal.

Protesters from a new movement in France staged demonstrations on highways that disrupted traffic early on Wednesday and dozens of people were arrested as security forces deployed across the country, officials said.

Poland's military said it assembled its own and NATO allied air defences to shoot down Russian drones on Wednesday after they crossed from neighbouring Ukraine, the first time in the war that Warsaw has engaged Russian assets in its airspace.

The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, has condemned in the strongest terms the aggression launched by Israel in Doha.

Qatar’s Ministry of Interior has confirmed the death of a member of its Internal Security Force following the Israeli attack on residential buildings in Doha that housed members of Hamas’ political bureau.

Qatar has strongly condemned what it calls a "cowardly Israeli attack" on residential buildings in Doha, housing members of Hamas' political bureau.

Israel launched an audacious attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar on Tuesday.

The United Nations said on Tuesday it was seeking $139.6 million to help half a million people affected by earthquakes that struck eastern Afghanistan, and it urged donors to set aside any reservations about the Taliban authorities.

Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli resigned on Tuesday as anti-corruption demonstrators defied an indefinite curfew and clashed with police, a day after 19 people died in violent protests triggered by a social media ban.

Thailand's influential former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was sent to prison on Tuesday after the Supreme Court ruled his hospital detention was a ploy to avoid jail, a major blow for a powerful family that has dominated politics for two decades.

A Russian airstrike killed more than 20 civilians who were collecting their pensions in a village in eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday.

Indian lawmakers began voting to elect a new vice president on Tuesday, more than a month after the last incumbent resigned abruptly.

Israel's military on Tuesday ordered Gaza City residents to evacuate ahead of a new offensive, after Israel warned it would step up its military attacks in the strip in a "mighty hurricane" if Hamas does not free the last hostages it holds.

The Global Sumud Flotilla seeking to deliver aid for Gaza said that one of its main boats was struck by a drone in Tunisian waters on Tuesday.

10 people were killed and at least 61 were injured in central Mexico when a freight train smashed into a double-decker passenger bus, which the train operator said had been attempting to pass in front of the moving train on Monday.

One of the four terminals at London's Heathrow Airport has now reopened after it was declared safe following an evacuation on Monday over what authorities called a "possible hazardous materials incident".

France's parliament voted on Monday to bring down the government over its plans to tame the ballooning national debt, deepening a political crisis and handing President Emmanuel Macron the task of finding a fifth prime minister in less than two years.

The United Nations human rights chief condemned Israel on Monday for its "mass killing" of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and "hindering of sufficient lifesaving aid", saying the country had a case to answer before the International Court of Justice.

Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people in what police described as "a terrorist attack," one of the deadliest in the city in the past few years.

Unrest killed at least 14 people and injured dozens in Nepal's capital on Monday, state TV said, as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters trying to storm parliament in anger at a social media shutdown and corruption.

A New Zealand father who had been on the run with his three children for nearly four years was shot dead by police on Monday and the children are all safe in custody, police said.

The World Health Organisation has asked Taliban authorities to lift restrictions on Afghan female aid workers, allowing them to travel without male guardians, after a powerful earthquake killed 2,200 people in eastern Afghanistan.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday suggested a Gaza deal could come soon to secure the release of all the hostages held by Hamas, after earlier issuing what he called his "last warning" to the group.

Israel's Ramon Airport near the southern city of Eilat resumed operations after being briefly shut on Sunday when a drone launched from Yemen struck the arrivals hall, Israel's Airports Authority said.

London underground workers are to begin a week of rolling strikes on Sunday, action which is set to bring the network to a standstill and cause massive disruption for travellers in the British capital.

Israel again called on Hamas to surrender on Sunday, as the military carried out strikes on Gaza's largest urban centre where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are seeking shelter.

Russia's largest overnight air attack of the war set the main building of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv on fire and left three people dead, including an infant, whose body was pulled from the rubble, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Sunday he had decided to resign, ushering in a potentially lengthy period of policy paralysis at a shaky moment for the world's fourth-largest economy.

Problems with a cable likely caused a Lisbon funicular railway popular with tourists to hurtle down a hill, killing at least 16 people and injuring another 22 when it crashed into a building, according to a preliminary report.

The Israeli military on Saturday said Palestinians in Gaza City should leave for the south, warning that the military was operating throughout the city.

Australian authorities offered a A$1 million ($650,000) reward on Saturday for information leading to the capture of a gunman on the run for 11 days after allegedly killing two police officers.

Thailand's prime minister-elect on Saturday named the former Treasury Department head, the top oil and gas executive and a respected diplomat to run the finance, energy, and foreign ministries, saying his first cabinet picks would “bring confidence” to a country shaken by political and economic upheaval.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer brought in a new deputy and foreign and interior ministers on Friday in a sweeping reshuffle intended to restore his authority after the resignation of his deputy, Angela Rayner.

Thailand's Anutin Charnvirakul was elected prime minister on Friday after breezing through a parliamentary vote, trouncing the candidate of the Shinawatra family's once-dominant ruling party to end a week of chaos and political deadlock.

A passenger bus veered off a road and plunged into a deep ravine in a mountainous region in Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and injuring 16 others.

Two powerful aftershocks shook eastern Afghanistan in a span of 12 hours, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said, triggering fears of more deaths and destruction on Friday in a region where about 2,200 people died in quakes in four days.

Thailand's parliament was set to choose a new prime minister on Friday, after days of political chaos, in a vote that could be overshadowed by the dramatic departure from the country of its most powerful politician Thaksin Shinawatra.

US President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Friday to rename the Department of Defence the 'Department of War,' a White House official said on Thursday, a move that would put Trump's stamp on the government's biggest organization.

Washington DC sued US President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday over his deployment of National Guard troops in the capital city, a move likely to heighten tensions between the Republican president and the city's Democratic leaders.

Flags flew at half-mast in Lisbon on Thursday after at least 16 people were killed and 23 injured in a crash of a hillside funicular railway popular with tourists, while Portuguese authorities began investigating the cause of the accident.

Rescue workers on Thursday pulled bodies from the rubble of homes razed in Afghanistan's earthquakes as the confirmed death toll topped 2,200, while homeless survivors faced a bleak future with global aid agencies warning of dwindling resources.

Parts of Delhi and Indian Kashmir were flooded on Thursday after two rivers breached the danger mark following heavy rain in several northern areas, but weather officials forecast some respite from downpours.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would "fully support" Russia's army as a "fraternal duty", and Russian President Vladimir Putin called the two countries' ties "special", state media KCNA reported on Thursday.

President Donald Trump said the US could increase its troop presence in Poland and pledged to secure the country's defense during a White House meeting with its conservative nationalist President Karol Nawrocki on Wednesday.

Afghanistan airdropped commandos on Wednesday to pull survivors from the rubble of homes in mountainous eastern areas ravaged by earthquakes this week that have killed 1,400, as it ramped up efforts to deliver food, shelter and medical supplies.

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that US President Donald Trump's administration unlawfully terminated about $2.2 billion in grants awarded to Harvard University and can no longer cut off research funding to the prestigious Ivy League school.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will press for stronger pressure on Moscow as he meets allies in Denmark and France on Wednesday after Russian forces launched a sweeping air attack on Ukraine, damaging energy and transport infrastructure.

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned the world was facing a choice between peace or war as he held his country's largest-ever military parade on Wednesday, flanked by Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un.

Widespread flooding has hit several parts of northern India, officials said, with more thunderstorms forecast for Wednesday as local media reported that 10,000 people were evacuated from the river banks in capital Delhi.

The US military killed 11 people on Tuesday in a strike on a vessel from Venezuela allegedly carrying illegal narcotics, President Donald Trump said, in the first known operation since his administration's recent deployment of warships to the southern Caribbean.

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit has called on all Libyan parties to lessen tensions and resolve differences through dialogue following recent buildup of military forces near the capital, Tripoli.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 shook southeastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, sparking fears of further damage and destruction almost two days after a large quake in the same region killed more than 1,400 people and injured thousands more.

Belgium will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly, Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said on Tuesday, adding to international pressure on Israel after similar moves by Australia, Britain, Canada and France.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un crossed the border into China on his special train early on Tuesday to attend China's celebration of the formal surrender of Japan in World War II, North Korean state media said on Tuesday.

At least 1,000 people were killed in a landslide that destroyed a village in the mountainous Jebel Marra area in the Darfur region of Sudan, leaving only one survivor, the armed group that controls the area said early on Tuesday.

Vietnam celebrated the 80th anniversary of its declaration of independence from colonial rule on Tuesday, with its largest military parade in decades, unprecedented cash handouts and the release of nearly 14,000 prisoners.

One of Afghanistan's worst earthquakes killed more than 800 people and injured at least 2,800, authorities said on Monday, as helicopters ferried the wounded to hospital after they were plucked from the rubble of homes being combed for survivors.

Israel pushed tanks deeper into Gaza City and detonated explosives-laden vehicles in one suburb as airstrikes killed at least 19 people on Monday, Palestinian officials and witnesses said.

India's Narendra Modi told Vladimir Putin on Monday that India and Russia stood shoulder to shoulder even in difficult times after the Kremlin chief cast the Indian prime minister as his "dear friend" and gave him a lift in his armoured limousine.

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged leaders to leverage their "mega-scale market", while Russian President Vladimir Putin showed support for Xi's ambition for a new global security and economic order that poses a challenge to the US during a regional summit on Monday.

South Korea has suspended a military radio broadcast that transmits to North Korea as part of measures aimed at easing tensions with Pyongyang, Seoul's defence ministry said on Monday.

Indonesian political parties have agreed to cut lawmakers' benefits, President Prabowo Subianto said on Sunday, in a bid to calm anti-government protests that have killed at least five people in the country's worst violence in decades.

Yemen's Houthis raided United Nations offices in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday and detained at least 11 UN personnel, the body said.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday that Hamas' armed wing spokesperson Abu Ubaida has been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza.

Israeli forces pounded the suburbs of Gaza City overnight from the air and ground, destroying homes and driving more families out of the area as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet was set on Sunday to discuss a plan to seize the city.

Russian drone attacks on power facilities in northern and southern Ukraine overnight left nearly 60,000 customers without electricity, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowing to retaliate by ordering more strikes deep inside Russia.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was committed to improving ties with Beijing in a key meeting with China's President Xi Jinping on Sunday, as both countries resolved to put aside differences from a years-long border standoff.

The prime minister of Yemen's Houthi-run government and several other ministers were killed in an Israeli strike on the capital Sanaa, the head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council said on Saturday, in the first such attack to kill senior officials.

A divided US appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Donald Trump's tariffs are illegal, undercutting the Republican president's use of the levies as a key international economic policy tool.

The United States said on Friday it will not allow Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to travel to New York next month for a United Nations gathering of world leaders, where several US allies are set to recognise Palestine as a state.

Two dead storks at Delhi Zoo have tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus, prompting authorities to shut the facility from Saturday, the Times of India reported.

Australian police battled severe alpine weather on Saturday on the fifth day of a search for a gunman who escaped into dense bush after allegedly shooting dead two officers and injuring another at a rural property in Victoria state.

Turkey has decided to bar Israeli vessels from using its ports, forbid Turkish ships from using Israeli ports and impose restrictions on planes entering Turkish airspace, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Friday.

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi agreed on Friday to deepen economic and security ties as New Delhi confronts new US tariffs and Tokyo looks to counter China's growing influence.

The British government on Friday won a court ruling that means asylum seekers will not have to be evicted from a hotel where a resident was charged with sexual assault, a decision that could ignite more protests and criticism from opponents.

US President Donald Trump has cancelled Secret Service protection for former vice president and 2024 Democratic rival Kamala Harris, a senior White House official said on Friday.

Thailand's Constitutional Court dismissed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office on Friday for an ethics violation after only a year in power, in another crushing blow to the Shinawatra political dynasty that could usher in a new period of turmoil.

Israel has recovered the body of hostage Ilan Weiss from the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Friday.

The United Nations Security Council unanimously extended "for a final time" on Thursday a long-running peacekeeping mission in Lebanon until the end of 2026, when the operation will then begin a year-long safe withdrawal.

Nearly three-dozen soldiers who had been kidnapped by armed civilians in a jungle area of southeastern Colombia have been released, Defence Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Thursday.

Canada and India have announced new high commissioners to each other's countries, in the latest sign of improving ties frayed by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegation that India was linked to the killing of a Sikh separatist leader on Canadian soil.

Israeli forces killed at least 16 Palestinians across Gaza on Thursday and wounded dozens in the south of the enclave, local health officials said, as residents reported intensified military bombardment in the suburbs of Gaza City.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit China to attend a military parade next week marking the formal surrender of Japan in World War II, state media said, in what is likely to be the biggest multilateral diplomatic event Kim has attended.

Russian forces launched a large-scale overnight drone and missile attack on Kyiv, killing 10 people, injuring 38, and damaging residential and other buildings across seven districts, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday.

Pakistan's eastern towns of Chiniot and Hafizabad face a risk of catastrophic floods if an irrigation barrage crumbles on a major river upstream after heavy rains swelled it beyond capacity, officials warned on Thursday.

All United Nations Security Council members, except the US, on Wednesday said the famine in Gaza was a "manmade crisis" and warned that the use of starvation as a weapon of war is banned under international humanitarian law.

Hundreds of people protested in southern Lebanon on Wednesday against a planned visit by US envoy Thomas Barrack, a day after the envoy stirred anger in the country by publicly scolding Lebanese reporters.

Two children were killed and 17 other people were injured on Wednesday after a gunman opened fire on students who were attending Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, authorities said.

A magnitude 6 earthquake struck in the sea off the northeast coast of Taiwan on Wednesday, the island's weather administration said, with no immediate reports of damage.

Israeli tanks pushed into a new area on the edge of Gaza City overnight, destroying houses and prompting residents to flee, witnesses said, ahead of an expected meeting on the war to be chaired by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

Heavy rain swept across the Himalayas, killing at least 36 people in India over the past 24 hours and forcing authorities to open major dams, in turn triggering flood alerts on three rivers in neighbouring Pakistan.

Six Syrian soldiers were killed in Israeli drone strikes in the Damascus countryside, state-run El Ekhbariya TV reported early on Wednesday.

South Korea passed a bill on Wednesday to ban the use of mobile phones and other digital devices in school classrooms nationwide, as concern grows about the impact of heavy social media use among the young.

The Arab Parliament has strongly condemned the recent escalations in the West Bank, which include raids and attacks by Israeli occupation forces in the cities of Ramallah, Al-Bireh and Al-Khalil against Palestinian citizens.

Australia accused Iran of directing two antisemitic arson attacks in the cities of Sydney and Melbourne and gave Tehran's ambassador seven days to leave the country on Tuesday, its first such expulsion since World War Two.

A Sri Lankan court granted bail on Tuesday to former president Ranil Wickremesinghe who was arrested last week over allegations that he misused state funds while in office.

Pakistan has carried out emergency evacuations in areas along three rivers in its agricultural heartland under threat of flooding after India warned it plans to release excess water from a dam.

Arab Parliament has condemned the latest Israeli attacks in Gaza, calling out the systematic targeting of journalists, medical personnel and relief workers at Nasser hospital.

Typhoon Kajiki killed at least three people and injured 10 others in Vietnam, authorities said on Tuesday as they warned that heavy rains could cause flooding and landslides.

India's top court has ordered an investigation into a wildlife rescue park run by Reliance Foundation, the philanthropic arm of billionaire Mukesh Ambani's group, although it said allegations of unlawful animal acquisitions and mistreatment were not supported by evidence.

The Arab League has strongly condemned the deadly Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital that killed 20 people, including five journalists.

Sir Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin Group, will be boarding Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity and blasting off to space on Sunday.

Singapore is reviewing penalties for violent offences following an outcry over a 12-day prison sentence for a student who strangled his girlfriend until she blacked out.