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KOROR, Palau—When Surangel Whipps Jr. was pursuing an MBA at UCLA in the early 1990s, his classmates were chasing job interviews and lucrative careers. Whipps...
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A Paris court on Tuesday sentenced a man to one year under house arrest with an ankle tag for sexually assaulting primary schoolchildren in his care.The sentence is the heaviest imposed since multiple allegations of sexual or physical violence emerged in recent months against monitors the city employs to look after children at school outside the classroom.Michael M., 38, admitted during his trial to having sexually assaulted the nine children aged five to 10 between September 2022 and January 2024, and apologised for “what had happened”.The court handed him a five-year term, four of which were suspended and banned him...
A Paris court on Tuesday sentenced a man to one year under house arrest with an ankle tag for sexually assaulting primary schoolchildren in his...
A Japanese court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old man to five years in prison and fined him 1 million yen (US$6,500) for forcing a 12-year-old...
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Published: 9:21pm, 15 Sep 2026Updated: 10:28pm, 15 Sep 2026A lack of mutual trust and confidence haunts Sino-US relations, a major security conference in Beijing has...
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