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Reuters Adèle Haenel, 35, quit the French film industry last year Adèle Haenel, a French actor who has accused a filmmaker of sexually assaulting her when she was a child, shouted at him to “shut up” before storming out in the middle of his trial. Christophe Ruggia, 59, was speaking in his defence at the … Read more
Users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have experienced difficulties accessing them due to a mass global outage. “Thanks for bearing with us! We’re 99% of the way there – just doing some last checks. We apologize to those who’ve been affected by the outage,” Meta, which owns the apps, said on X. Over 22,000 people … Read more
Decades of rule by the Assad family came to an end over the weekend following the overthrow of president Bashar al-Assad. But as the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen explains, there are now demands for retribution from Syrians, with some calling for the public execution of those who served the Assads. Bishhnu BanerjiHey, I am a multifaceted … Read more
Taliban refugee minister Khalil Haqqani has been killed in a suicide bombing inside the interior ministry in Kabul, the movement’s most high profile casualty since it returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021. Six others died in the blast as Haqqani was leaving his office, interior ministry sources said. Khalil Haqqani was a top member … Read more
Christopher Wray, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), says he will resign from his post before President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month. Wray announced his impending departure at an internal FBI meeting on Wednesday, according to the BBC’s US partner CBS News. President-elect Donald Trump has publicly signalled his desire to … Read more