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| Cosby could face multiple accusers at sexual assault trial | |  Pennsylvania prosecutors said on Tuesday they intend to call more than a dozen accusers as witnesses against TV comedian Bill Cosby at his sexual assault trial. During a hearing on Tuesday, Court of Common Pleas Judge Steven O'Neill in Norristown tentatively scheduled Cosby's trial for June 5, 2017, giving both sides months to pursue what will likely be a fiercely fought series of legal battles over the scope of evidence allowed at trial. Cosby is charged with drugging and assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004 at his Pennsylvania home.
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| Fox settles sexual harassment lawsuit for $20 million on Ailes' behalf | |  Fox News will pay $20 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit by former anchor Gretchen Carlson, whose allegations led to the ouster of powerful network chief Roger Ailes in July, a source familiar with the agreement said on Tuesday. Fox News' parent company, 21st Century Fox, offered a public apology to Carlson, who filed suit against Ailes in July, saying he took her off a popular show and cut her pay because she refused to have a sexual relationship with him. While Fox's decision to settle some harassment claims removes a degree of uncertainty around the conservative news channel, observers said there still are questions about its ability to hang onto top talent in the wake of Ailes' departure and whether more allegations will surface.
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| France's Sarkozy says "shameful" manipulations won't deter presidential bid | |  Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday dismissed "shameful" attempts to prevent him for running for the 2017 presidency after the state prosecutor said he should stand trial over 2012 election funding irregularities. Sarkozy is accused of "knowingly underestimating" elements of his campaign financing, and the prosecutor's office recommended on Monday he stand trial with 13 others in the so-called Bygmalion Affair, involving spending overruns and allegedly illegal financing. The timing is tricky for Sarkozy in the run-up to a candidacy contest pitting himself against several conservative rivals for the presidential ticket of the Les Republicains party and its allies on the centre-right.
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| Romanian ex-PM Ponta under investigation in new probe | |  Romanian anti-corruption prosecutors said on Tuesday they were investigating former leftist Prime Minister Victor Ponta on suspicion of abuse of power and complicity in tax evasion. Ponta is already on trial in a separate case on charges of forgery, money-laundering and being an accessory to tax evasion, which he has denied. Prosecutors said Ponta used his position the time, as prime minister and head of the Social Democrats, to put businessman Sebastian Ghita on the party's list of candidates for the 2012 parliamentary election in exchange for his paying 220,000 euros ($247,000) to bring an international celebrity to Romania.
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| Ex-Air China employee pleads not guilty to U.S. smuggling charge | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Air China Ltd employee linked to defendants in a U.N. bribery case pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges that she helped military personnel at China's mission to the United Nations smuggle packages out of the United States. Lin, whom prosecutors said also helped a Chinese national under investigation by the FBI flee the United States last year, entered her plea through her lawyer in Brooklyn federal court to charges including smuggling and obstruction of justice. |
| India's Muslim women say justification for triple talaq, polygamy is medieval | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Muslim women fighting to ban "triple talaq" divorce and polygamy from family civil law in India's top court condemned on Tuesday justifications given by Islamic clerics as "medieval" and "reeking of sexism". India's Supreme Court is currently hearing a petition filed by women's rights activists who want the judiciary to declare triple talaq - where Muslim men can divorce by simply stating their intention three times verbally - as unconstitutional.
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| Afghan forces end siege after suicide attacks in Kabul | |  By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces ended an 11-hour standoff in central Kabul on Tuesday, shooting dead the last of a group of attackers who struck hours after a separate suicide bombing killed and wounded dozens of security personnel and civilians. The episode began on Monday afternoon with a twin suicide bombing in a busy area of the capital near the Defence Ministry that killed 35 people, including several senior security officers, and wounded 103. The attack was claimed by the Taliban and was followed a few hours later by a car bomb in Share Naw, a business and residential area of the city close to the government and embassy district, which the insurgent group also claimed.
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| Suspected Aleppo chlorine attack chokes dozens, rescue workers, monitors say | | | A suspected chlorine gas attack on an opposition-held neighbourhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo caused dozens of cases of suffocation on Tuesday, rescue workers and a monitoring group said. The Syrian Civil Defence, a rescue workers' organisation that operates in rebel-held areas, said government helicopters had dropped barrel bombs containing chlorine on the Sukari neighbourhood in eastern Aleppo. The Syrian government has denied previous accusations it used chemical weapons during the five-year-old civil war. |
| Philippines scrambles to soothe tensions after Obama slur | |  By Roberta Rampton and Manuel Mogato VIENTIANE (Reuters) - New Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte sought to defuse a row with the United States on Tuesday, voicing regret for calling President Barack Obama a "son of a bitch", a comment that prompted Washington to call off a bilateral meeting. The tiff between the two allies overshadowed the opening of a summit of East and Southeast Asian nations in Vientiane, Laos. It also soured Obama's last swing as president through a region he has tried to make a focus of U.S. foreign policy, a strategy widely seen as a response to China's economic and military muscle-flexing.
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