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Director accused in French cinema's #MeToo wave charged with rape and assault of actors 07/04/2024 08:44pm • PARIS (AP) ��� A prominent French film director has been handed preliminary charges of rape, sexual assault and violence by a French judge investigating a case involving female actors, the Paris prosecutor's office said Thursday. Beno��t Jacquot, who has more than 50 director credits in film and te Showers exit DC area ahead of Fourth of July fireworks 07/04/2024 08:24pm • A few lingering showers are wrapping up on this hot and humid Fourth of July after soaking rain and storms dampened some outdoor celebrations in the D.C. area earlier Thursday evening. Here's what you need to know. People dressed in patriotic outfits huddled under umbrellas on the National Mall a WTOP goes out on the water with DC police's harbor patrol 07/04/2024 08:21pm • D.C. police���s Harbor Patrol Unit calls July Fourth its Super Bowl on the water. The holiday comes during the specialized team's busy season. ���Spring and summer is by far our busiest,��� said Lt. Andrew Horos, with the harbor patrol. Ahead of fireworks on Independence Day, Horos said the te 2 women in Chicago and Cleveland police officer are among those killed in July Fourth shootings 07/04/2024 05:52pm • Two women in a home in Chicago, a police officer serving a warrant in Cleveland and an armed person making threats in Yellowstone National Park were among those killed in shootings on the Fourth of July, historically one of the nation's deadliest days of the year. Violence and mass shootings often i Brazil's federal police indict ex-President Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association, source confirms 07/04/2024 05:14pm • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� Brazil's federal police indict ex-President Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association, source confirms. Mexico's incoming president announces top posts but her new cabinet includes familiar faces 07/04/2024 03:40pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico���s incoming president announced her appointees for top posts Thursday, but hopes for a fresh approach were dashed by the re-appearance of old faces in the new cabinet. President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum announced that Rosa Icela Rodr��guez, who headed outgoing President France's government spokesperson is attacked on the campaign trail, days before decisive election 07/04/2024 02:39pm • PARIS (AP) ��� In the final stretch before France's high-stakes parliamentary elections Sunday, several candidates have reported being attacked on the campaign trail, including government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot. The French interior minister said Thursday that 30,000 police officers will be dep Iranian-born Norwegian man found guilty in 2022 Oslo LGBT+ festival attack, sentenced to 30 years 07/04/2024 08:40am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� An Iranian-born Norwegian man was found guilty of terrorism on Thursday in a 2022 attack on an LGBTQ+ festival in Oslo and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Two people were killed and nine were seriously wounded in the shooting at three locations, chiefly outside the Lond Japanese man sentenced to 17.5 years in prison, and 20 strokes of the cane in Singapore for rape 07/04/2024 06:38am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ��� A Japanese hairstylist has been sentenced to 17.5 years in prison and 20 strokes of the cane in Singapore for what the judge described as a ���brutal and cruel��� assault and rape of a drunk student five years ago, his lawyer said Thursday. Kita Ikko, 39, pleaded guil Police find remains of girl snatched by a crocodile while swimming in northern Australia 07/04/2024 06:10am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Police on Thursday found the remains of a 12-year-old girl, two days after she was snatched by a crocodile while swimming in a creek in remote northern Australia. The remains were found in the river system near where the girl vanished at the Indigenous community of Palu Pro-Palestinian protesters breach security at Australia's Parliament House to unfurl banners 07/04/2024 04:43am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Pro-Palestinian protesters breached security at Australia���s Parliament House to unfurl banners from the roof on Thursday as a senator quit the government over its direction on the Gaza war. Tensions over Israel���s war against Hamas dominated Parliament���s final sitt A third Japanese climber has died on a mountain in northern Pakistan in less than a month 07/04/2024 03:50am • PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� A Japanese climber has died while descending one of the highest mountains in northern Pakistan, the third death of a Japanese on the mountain in less than a month, officials said Thursday. Rescuers have located the body of Hiroshi Onishi, 64, who fell into a crevasse earl Haiti's prime minister says Kenyan police are crucial to controlling gangs, early days are positive 07/04/2024 12:07am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that recently deployed Kenyan police will be crucial to helping control the country���s gangs and moving toward democratic elections ��� and he called feedback from their initial days in the capi Leaders of Russia and China meet at a Central Asian summit in a show of deepening cooperation 07/03/2024 10:56pm • Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Wednesday for the second time in as many months as they visited Kazakhstan for a session of an international group founded to counter Western alliances. Putin and Xi last got together in May when the Kremlin leader visited Beijing Mexico evacuates even sea turtle eggs from beaches as Hurricane Beryl approaches 07/03/2024 10:53pm • CANCUN, Mexico (AP) ��� Stung by past failures to prepare for hurricanes, the Mexican government on Wednesday began evacuating even sea turtle eggs from beaches ahead of Hurricane Beryl. While Beryl remains far offshore in the Caribbean near Jamaica, it is expected to hit somewhere south of Cancun