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MP Patrick Grady quits SNP after being accused of sexual assault
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A senior Scottish National party MP accused of sexual assault has quit the party and will sit as an independent after the Metropolitan police said they were investigating the allegations. The Met said it had received ...
Kevin Spacey granted bail over sexual assault charges
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The actor Kevin Spacey has appeared in a London magistrates court charged with sexual assault against three men, which his lawyer said he “strenuously denies”. The Hollywood star gave his name as Kevin Spacey Fowler, ...
Canada charges ex-general fighting in Ukraine with sexual assault
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A former Canadian general who reportedly went to Ukraine to fight Russian invaders has been charged back home in Canada with sexual assault, after a months-long investigation. Retired Lt Gen Trevor Cadieu faces two co...
Kevin Spacey to appear in UK court on sexual assault charges
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Kevin Spacey will appear at Westminster magistrates court on Thursday charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, the Metropolitan police said. The Oscar-winning actor has been charged with four coun...
Simon Dobbin: five arrested on suspicion of murder seven years after assault
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Five men have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a man who was left permanently brain damaged by an attack on his way home from a football match and died five years later. Simon Dobbin was assaulted in Southe...
Met police authorised to charge Harvey Weinstein with indecent assault
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Harvey Weinstein will face two charges of indecent assault against a woman in London in 1996, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has announced. Following a review of evidence gathered by the Metropolitan police, the ...
UK seeking return of Kevin Spacey from US to face sexual assault charges
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British authorities are pursuing the return of Kevin Spacey from the US to face sexual assault charges. An official familiar with the process told the Guardian the UK would seek the actor’s formal extradition unless h...
Eighteen-year-old Americans can’t drink. Why can they buy assault rifles?
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The mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas, killing 19 children and two parents, was a reminder of all the ways the United States has failed its people. A nation that still retains promise, America is now held...
Filtration and forced deportation: Mariupol survivors on the lasting terrors of Russia’s assault
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On the final day of March, soldiers of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic entered the basement in Mariupol where Svitlana and Vitaly were sheltering. “You have 15 minutes to get ready and then you’re leaving,” sh...
Kevin Spacey charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men
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The actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, the Crown Prosecution Service said. The CPS said the 62-year-old had also been charged with causing a person to engage in p...
Imran Ahmad Khan sentenced to 18 months over sexual assault of boy, 15
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The former Conservative MP Imran Ahmad Khan has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy after plying him with gin at a party in 2008. The 48-year-old was expelled from the Conserv...
Biden security agents sent home from Seoul after reported drunken assault
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Joe Biden’s visit to South Korea and Japan has got off to a bad start with two Secret Service agents set to be sent home after one was accused of drunkenly assaulting a South Korean the day before the president arrive...
Former world darts champion Ted Hankey jailed for sexual assault
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The former world darts champion Ted Hankey has been jailed for two years after he was caught on camera sexually assaulting a young woman. The 54-year-old, who it was said had shown “more self-pity than remorse”, dabbe...
Trump-endorsed Republican accused of sexual assault loses Nebraska governor primary
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Republicans in Nebraska picked Jim Pillen as their nominee for governor on Tuesday, over a rival supported by Donald Trump and accused of groping multiple women. Charles Herbster’s loss was a setback for Trump, who ha...
Amber Heard in tears as she accuses Johnny Depp of alcohol-fueled sexual assault – video
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Amber Heard tearfully told jurors on Thursday that Johnny Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle in an alcohol-fuelled rage. The March 2015 incident in Australia, where Depp was filming the fifth Pirates of ...
Anguish for partners of Mariupol’s defenders as Russian assault goes on
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“Holding up”, wrote Denys Prokopenko, commander of Ukraine’s Azov regiment, in his latest WhatsApp message to his wife Kateryna from the besieged Azovstal steelworks in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. Speaking vi...