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    A 10-year-old Japanese student who was stabbed near his school in southern China has died, officials in Tokyo said Thursday, asking Beijing to provide details of the stabbing and take preventive measures. Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa expressed condolences and noted that the attack occurred despite Tokyo's requests for caution and enhanced safety as China marks a key anniversary of its war with Japan. The student was stabbed on Wednesday about 200 meters (220 yards) from the gate of the Shenzhen Japanese School, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lin Jian said in a daily briefing.

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    Snake bit Arom Arunroj, 64, multiple times and wrapped itself around her

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  • How Sean Combs’ ‘right hand’ woman will be central to sex case

    With Sean “Diddy” Combs facing a possible life sentence after being charged with sex trafficking and racketeering, one woman is expected to be at the centre of the music mogul’s case.

  • French mass rape survivor says 'humiliated' by lawyers' claims of complicity in her abuse

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  • Veteran CIA officer who drugged and sexually assaulted dozens of women gets 30 years in prison

    A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Wednesday after an emotional hearing in which victims described being deceived by a man who appeared kind, educated and part of an agency “that is supposed to protect the world from evil.” Brian Jeffrey Raymond, with a graying beard and orange prison jumpsuit, sat dejectedly as he heard his punishment for one of the most egregious misconduct cases in the CIA’s history.

  • Brian Jeffrey Raymond: CIA spy used Tinder to lure women around the world before drugging and sexually assaulting them

    Brian Jeffrey Raymond drugged and sexually assaulted nearly 30 women around the world

  • Families of Americans detained in China share their pain and urge US to get them home

    The families of four Americans detained in China said Wednesday that their loved ones are suffering both physically and mentally, urging the U.S. government to take action to bring them home. Appearing before the Congressional-Executive Commission of China, the families of Kai Li, Mark Swidan, Dawn Michelle Hunt and Nelson Wells Jr. — all of whom have been detained in China for at least eight years — cast a spotlight on the longstanding issue that has gained new attention with the release this week of American pastor David Lin, who was behind bars for almost 20 years. More Americans are detained in China than in any other foreign country, according to the commission created by Congress to monitor human rights in the communist country.

  • Former Olympian arranged teen sex, trial told

    Antony James denies 20 charges relating to sexual offences including rape and sexual assault.

  • Why hundreds of Samsung workers are protesting in India

    About 1500 workers in Tamil Nadu state have been striking work for the past 11 days.

  • Pope Francis allows devotion to Medjugorje, where Virgin Mary said to appear

    VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis has approved a Catholic spiritual devotion centred in Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia that has been steeped in controversy over whether the Virgin Mary appears to local people, the Vatican said on Thursday. The Vatican's doctrinal office said that Francis was not declaring that messages given by the alleged apparition of the Madonna were authentic. Thursday's statement appeared to conclude decades of Vatican investigations into the alleged visitations, which were first reported by six children in 1981, in a scenario reminiscent of famous apparitions in the French town of Lourdes in the 19th century and more than 100 years ago in Fatima in Portugal.

  • Thailand will indict ex-security personnel over the deaths of 78 Muslim protesters in 2004

    Eight former state security personnel accused of responsibility for the deaths of 78 Muslim protesters who were arrested in southern Thailand in 2004 will be indicted on murder charges, the prosecutor’s office announced Wednesday. The long-delayed legal action in connection with what is known as the Tak Bai massacre came just over a month before the statute of limitations expires on the case. The deaths occurred shortly after a Muslim separatist insurgency erupted in Thailand’s southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala, the only ones with Muslim majorities in the Buddhist-dominated nation.

  • Malaysian police detain CEO and other leaders of Islamic group as probe into child sex abuse widens

    Malaysian police on Thursday detained the CEO and other top leaders of an Islamic business group that is under investigation after hundreds of children believed to be sexually abused were rescued this month from welfare homes linked to the group. National police chief Razarudin Husain said 12 men and seven women were detained following a police raid on a condominium in Kuala Lumpur. Nasiruddin Mohamad Ali, CEO of Global Ikhwan Services and Business, and several members of GISB's advisory board were among those detained, Razarudin told The Associated Press.

  • Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs latest: Rapper sent back to jail as shocking texts after Cassie hotel attack revealed

    Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has faced a series of civil lawsuits accusing him of sexual abuse over the last year

  • Taiwan, Hungary firms deny making Hezbollah pagers

    A Taiwanese company and its Hungarian partner on Wednesday reportedly denied making pagers that exploded while being used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon.A source close to Hezbollah, asking not to be identified, previously told AFP that "the pagers that exploded concern a shipment recently imported by Hezbollah of 1,000 devices" which appear to have been "sabotaged at source".

  • Man who took an ax to a fruit stand in a 'reign of terror' is ordered to pay vendors $2.8 million

    A Woodland Hills man who terrorized street vendors using violence, racial slurs and an ax must pay two victims a total of more than $2.8 million.

  • Ex-CIA officer drugged and sexually abused women in multiple countries

    An investigation was started after a naked women seeking help was seen on his balcony in 2020.

  • Sean 'Diddy' Combs will stay in jail after judge refuses bail appeal

    The musician has been denied bail twice after being charged with racketeering and sex trafficking.

  • Man who sold fentanyl-laced pill liable for $5.8 million in death of young female customer

    In 2019, Brandon McDowell was contacted by a sophomore in college who asked to buy Percocet, a prescription painkiller. What the 20-year-old sold her instead were counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid that can be lethal in a dose as small as 2 milligrams. Hours later, Alexandra Capelouto, also 20, was dead in her Temecula, California, home.

  • Four people arrested on drug charges in Bali face death penalty

    Two Thai citizens among four facing capital punishment for allegedly smuggling methamphetamine and MDMA