French mass rape survivor says 'humiliated' by lawyers' claims of complicity in her abuse
• Sep 18, 2024, 10:28 PM
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Gisele Pelicot expressed feeling humiliated during the trial of her ex-husband, after defense lawyers accused her of complicity in the abuse. She described the experience in court as degrading. Dominique Pelicot has admitted to drugging Gisele with sedatives, rendering her unconscious so that he and dozens of strangers could rape her over nearly a decade.
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Taiwan questions two in probe into Lebanon pager attack
• 7:27 AM
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Taiwan said on Friday that hundreds of pagers that exploded in Lebanon on Tuesday were not made in Taiwan after prosecutors prosecutors questioned two people associated with Gold Apollo, the Taiwanese company that produced the communication devices.
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‘I was convinced it was a game': Defendants begin testifying at Pelicot rape trial gripping France
• 7:16 AM
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The trial of 51 men for the rape of Gisèle Pelicot began in earnest on Thursday as the first defendants took the stand. Their testimony included expressions of regret along with more ambiguous statements regarding their awareness of their victim’s vulner
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🔴Live: Israel strikes southern Lebanon as Hezbollah vows revenge for device blasts
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Israel carried out intense air strikes in southern Lebanon late on Thursday as Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed revenge for two rounds of deadly attacks targeting pagers and two-way radios used by the group. Read FRANCE 24's liveblog for all the la
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Trump ally refuses to leave governor's race after 'Black Nazi' comments emerge on porn site
• 5:53 AM
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A Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina has rejected calls to drop out of the race after a report that he made controversial comments about slavery and called himself a 'Black Nazi' on a porn website more than a decade ago.
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Two missing, 1000 evacuated as Storm Boris brings flooding to northern Italy
• 2:04 AM
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Two people are missing and some 1,000 people have been evacuated from their homes after heavy flooding and landslides hit the northeastern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. The mayor of the city of Ravenna described the situation as a "full emergency".
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