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PARIS (AP) — French singer and actor Patrick Bruel was handed preliminary charges of rape, attempted rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment of several women between 2008 and 2019 and released under strict judicial supervision, a prosecutor’s office said Thursday. Bruel, 67, denies the allegations. He was brought Wednesday before four investigative judges at the court of Nanterre, in Paris western suburbs, following a two-day police custody. The Nanterre prosecutor’s […]

BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand on Thursday convicted and sentenced to death two members of China’s Muslim Uyghur minority over a 2015 bombing at a Bangkok landmark that killed 20 people and injured more than 120. Yusufu Mieraili and Bilal Mohammad were arrested shortly after the Aug. 17, 2015, bombing of the Erawan shrine, which is a popular tourist destination, particularly for visitors from China. The men were […]

MIAMI (AP) — On a late March afternoon, a Florida Fish and Wildlife officer pulled up to a Guatemalan couple walking their dog in a park in the affluent beachside community of Bonita Springs, along the Gulf Coast. From his car, he asked to see the husband’s identification and then ordered them to head toward the park exit, according to the wife. When they arrived in the parking lot, the […]

By Giulia Paravicini, Clement Bonnerot and Fiston Mahamba June 11 (Reuters) – By the time the truck pulled away from the morgue in Bunia, the morning heat hung heavily over the road to Mongbwalu. The body of a 44-year-old Congolese pastor lay inside a wooden coffin strapped into the back of an aging Nissan SUV with the backseats pushed flat. A group of young relatives were crammed in, too, sitting […]

By Anhata Rooprai and Jaspreet Singh June 11 (Reuters) – SpaceX’s market debut on Friday is expected to be the largest-ever IPO, capping the meteoric rise of a company that has reshaped the space business with reusable rockets and internet beamed from orbit and which now targets space-based AI. Aiming for a $1.75 trillion valuation that would instantly rank it among the world’s most valuable companies, SpaceX is pitching itself […]

By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) – Few Americans, including only a third of Republicans, approve of President Donald Trump’s plan to hold mixed martial arts cage matches at the White House on Sunday to celebrate U.S. history, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. Just 16% of Americans said it was appropriate for Trump to hold the Ultimate Fighting Championship event, scheduled for his 80th birthday, while 46% said it was […]

ANKARA, June 11 (Reuters) – The team of the ousted leader of Turkey’s main opposition, Ozgur Ozel, has resigned from the party’s assembly, his office said on Thursday, adding the move should legally trigger an extraordinary congress to re-elect a chairman. A Turkish court last month annulled the Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) 2023 congress that elected Ozel as chairman, citing irregularities. It also reinstated to the post Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the […]

By Anirban Sen, Suzanne McGee and Noel Randewich NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, June 11 (Reuters) – As SpaceX prepares for its record-breaking $75 billion market debut with great fanfare, Wall Street traders, brokers and exchanges are working nonstop to make sure their trading systems can handle the blockbuster IPO and avoid the chaos that marred other highly anticipated launches. Weighing heavily is Facebook’s infamous debut in 2012, which was upended by […]

June 11 (Reuters) – Indian investigators are expected to delay issuing a final report into a deadly Air India Boeing 787 crash by the one-year anniversary on Friday, citing the need to complete an analysis of the plane’s engines, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots supported the view that the captain cut the flow of fuel to the plane’s engines, according to […]