A French court found the ex-husband of Ms. Pelicot, Dominique Pelicot, guilty and sentenced him to 20 years in jail. Fifty other men were also convicted in the mass rape trial.
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A driver rammed a car into a large crowd of revellers at a Christmas market in the central German city of Magdeburg on Friday evening, killing at least two people, including a toddler, and injuring more than 60 before he was arrested. #Car #ploughs #German #Christmas #market #deadly #holiday #season #attack
German officials hunted for clues on Saturday after a 50-year-old Saudi national with a history of anti-Islamic comments drove his car into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers, killing at least two people, including a small child, and injuring at least 60 others. #German #police #search #motive #deadly #Christmas #market #attack
A 19-year-old high school student, she fled to Winnipeg in 2017 to escape the ISIS gunmen who stormed into northern Iraq and forced women and girls into sexual slavery. She thought she was safe in the Manitoba capital, and then last summer, she allegedly became the victim of sexual assault at the hands of a…
The US has made “direct contact” with the HTS rebels who now control Syria after toppling the Assad regime, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. It is the first acknowledgement of direct US interaction with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which the US currently still designates as a terrorist organisation. Blinken told reporters the US has…
A senior Russian general was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine’s security agency levelled criminal charges against him. A Ukrainian official said the country’s security service carried out the attack. Lt.-Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the military’s nuclear, biological and chemical…
At least two people were killed and dozens were injured after a car plowed into a busy Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday. Authorities said it appeared to be a deliberate attack. The driver of the car was arrested at the scene, Magdeburg police confirmed. They said their current assumption is that he was…