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PARIS, June 11 (Reuters) – French singer and actor Patrick Bruel, one of France’s top-selling recording artists, has been placed under formal investigation for rape, attempted rape, sexual assault, and harassment from 2008 to 2019, the local prosecutor’s office said on Thursday. Being placed under formal investigation means there are reasonable grounds to believe a …
By Ananda Teresia and Budi Satriawan YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia, June 11 (Reuters) – When Aldewa Anjasmara Halip’s three-year-old daughter cried hysterically every time she was due to attend a daycare centre in Indonesia’s cultural capital of Yogyakarta, he thought the toddler simply wanted to stay at home and play. But the police say the little girl …
CHICAGO (AP) — By the time Braden Montgomery returned to Rate Field on Wednesday, the glow from his major league debut the night before was a long way from fading. Montgomery capped a 2-for-5 night with a game-ending, two-run homer in the 10th inning to lift the Chicago White Sox to a 6-5 win over …
WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday blocked a request to temporarily halt President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “weaponization” fund, citing Justice Department statements and court filings that said the administration was abandoning the fund. • U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled the request, made by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in …
WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) – The Trump administration defended its sanctions on Cuba on Wednesday after the United Nations’ human rights chief warned U.S. actions were causing “widespread harm to the population and endangering lives.” “These sanctions target the leaders and entities who sustain the regime’s malicious campaign to subvert and destabilize U.S. national security,” …
Damaging storms swept through the Midwest on Wednesday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers and causing more than a thousand flight delays or cancellations at Chicago airports. The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings across Illinois, Kansas, northern Missouri and southern Iowa, while severe thunderstorm watches were in place for parts of …
GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines (AP) — The mayor of a southern Philippine town that was devastated by a powerful earthquake pleaded Thursday for helicopters to transport food to stave off hunger in several landslide-isolated villages. The 7.8 magnitude offshore quake, one of the strongest to hit the Philippine archipelago in a half century, struck Monday off …
MILAN (AP) — Foreign workers building a sprawling $350 million American Consulate in Milan were paid less than $2 an hour after being promised fair wages, according to Associated Press interviews with five former employees and a review of their employment letters and pay stubs. Italian prosecutors are investigating Montgomery, Alabama-based Caddell Construction, a major …
GENEVA (AP) — French and Swiss authorities will impose a week of pandemic-like border restrictions as U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders attend a G7 summit starting Monday while organizers fear potentially violent protests. The summit of some of the world’s richest nations from June 15-17 in the French town of Evian-les-Bains on Lake …
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Shohei Ohtani doesn’t like to get in the way of his catchers. The way the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar looks at it, when he’s on the mound, his job is to throw the ball. It’s up to the guys behind the plate to decide whether to challenge an umpire’s call of a …