Monday, 9 October 2017
Man arrested for rape of stepdaughter he 'kept prisoner for 19 years'
Henri Michele Piette, 62, has been charged with first-degree rape and other offences by authorities in Oklahoma after Rosalynn McGinnis, now 33, made her way to the US embassy in Mexico. There, she told investigators she was "married" by a then 15-year-old son of Mr Piette’s in the back of a van the day before he was due to marry her mother. Ms McGinnis’s mother later left Mr Piette because of his violent behaviour and lived with her daughter in protective accommodation, The Oklahoman reported.
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Turkey shells Syria's northern Idlib province
BEIRUT (AP) — Turkish forces on Sunday shelled areas along its border with Syria's northwestern province, an area dominated by al-Qaida-linked militants, as Turkey's president says an operation in the area to enforce a "de-escalation" zone was underway "without problems."
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Bangladesh police hunt man who married Rohingya refugee
Bangladesh police were Sunday searching for a man who defied a ban and married a Rohingya refugee, hundreds of thousands of whom have fled across the border to escape violence in Myanmar. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flocked to Bangladesh since an army crackdown began on August 25 in Myanmar's Rakhine state, a process the UN has described as ethnic cleansing. Shoaib Hossain Jewel, 25, and his 18-year-old Rohingya bride Rafiza have been on the run since marrying last month, said police in Jewel's home town of Singair.
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Harvey Weinstein Pens 'Desperate Email' To 'CEOs, Moguls' Before Firing
Law enforcement continues to investigate Las Vegas mass shooting
Federal investigators returned to search the home of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock on Sunday, while the officers who raided his hotel room door the night of the shooting gave a harrowing account of a barricaded door they had to bust through and the booby-traps they feared they'd find.
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Ariana Grande Shows Off Her New Grey (Not Silver!) Hair On Instagram
US risks sparking North Korea 'escalation': Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday warned his US counterpart Rex Tillerson that Washington risks sparking an unacceptable escalation in tensions with North Korea. In a phone call with US Secretary of State Tillerson, Lavrov "stressed the unacceptability of an escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula, which the American military preparations in the region are leading to," the foreign ministry said in a statement. US President Donald Trump said Saturday that diplomatic efforts with North Korea have consistently failed.
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Stephen Paddock: Las Vegas shooter visited Middle East, police reveal
Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock had visited the Middle East during a series of cruises, police have revealed. Investigators remain stumped as to Paddock’s motives but said he visited the contentious region on a cruise. The region, where Isis and other jihadi groups have a presence in some areas, may be of interest to security services because of speculation Paddock became radicalised.
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Meryl Streep slams Harvey Weinstein amid 'disgraceful' sexual harassment allegations
CBS Reporter Sparks Uproar By Mistakenly Claiming Kaepernick Wouldn't Kneel
Washington Man Sentenced to 65 Years in Prison for Fatally Torturing His Girlfriend’s Son with Autism
Why Geography Stops Gun Control From Taking Root
Neither snow nor rain: Postal Service delivers mail in Puerto Rico
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Harvey Weinstein Pens 'Desperate Email' To 'CEOs, Moguls' Before Firing
Venezuela leader thanks hostile Trump for making him 'famous'
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro baited U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday by thanking him for a barrage of criticism that had made him famous worldwide. "It's an honor that the head of the empire mentions me every day," said the 54-year-old president, just back in Venezuela from a trip to Russia, Belarus and Turkey. "That means I'm doing something right!" Maduro laughed, during his weekly program on state TV.
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Law enforcement continues to investigate Las Vegas mass shooting
Federal investigators returned to search the home of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock on Sunday, while the officers who raided his hotel room door the night of the shooting gave a harrowing account of a barricaded door they had to bust through and the booby-traps they feared they'd find.
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Iran warns U.S. against imposing further sanctions
BEIRUT/DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran warned the United States against designating its Revolutionary Guards Corp as a terrorist group and said U.S. regional military bases would be at risk if further sanctions were passed. The warning came after the White House said on Friday that President Donald Trump would announce new U.S. responses to Iran's missile tests, support for "terrorism" and cyber operations as part of his new Iran strategy. "As we've announced in the past, if America's new law for sanctions is passed, this country will have to move their regional bases outside the 2,000 km range of Iran's missiles," Guards' commander Mohammad Ali Jafari said, according to state media.
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White House Demands Border Wall, Changes To Immigration System In Return For DACA
WASHINGTON ― The White House told Congress on Sunday night that it wants a border wall and new limits on legal immigration in return for allowing people illegally brought into the United States as children to remain here ― demands top Democrats say renege on a deal President Donald Trump himself made with them last month.
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