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Avignon, Francemdash; A Frenchman being tried for recruiting strangers to rape his drugged wife has been hospitalized, his lawyer said Tuesday, in a development that raises the prospect of the trial being adjourned. Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old retiree who was to have been cross-examined for the first time later Tuesday, was hospitalized earlier in the day, his lawyer Beatrice Zavarro told the court. Presiding judge Roger Arata ordered the accused to be examined and emphasized that he could request a suspension of the trial, until his the defendant s state of health improves. Pelicot has been on trial since last week for repeatedly raping and enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife in her own bed between 2011 and 2020. Fifty other men, aged between 26 and 74, are also on trial for alleged involvement in the case, which has horrified France. His ex-wife and victim Gisele Pelicot, also 71, says she was troubled by strange memory lapses for years until police uncovered the abuse by chance after her husband was caught filming up women s skirts in a local supermarket. Domi af1 nique Pelicot, who has admitted to the charges against him, was to be questioned Tuesday afternoon. Gisele Pelicot arrives adidas original campus to attend a session in the trial of her ex-husband Dominique Pelicot, who has admitted to drugging her for nearly 10 years and inviting strangers to rape her at their home in Mazan, in Avignon, adidas campus southern France, Sept. 10, 2024. Mxlo 7 Dead as Latest Typhoon Hits Philippines
Insurgents stormed a jail about dawn Tuesday in the Sunni Muslim heartland north of Baghdad, killing at least 19 policemen and a courthouse guard. Authorities said all 33 prisoners in the lockup were freed and 10 attackers wer stanley thermos mug e killed in the battle, CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan reports.As many as 100 insurgent fighters mdash; armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades mdash; stormed the judicial compound in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles northeast of the capital. The assault began after the attackers fired a mortar round into the police and court complex, said poli stanley polska ce Brig. Ali al-Jabouri.After torching the police station, the insurgents detonated a string of roadside bombs as they fled, taking the bodies of many of their dead comrades with them, police said. At least 13 policemen and civilians and 15 gunmen were wounded in the attack.Five o stanley tumbler ther police were wounded in two separate roadside bomb attacks targeting patrols in northern and southern Baghdad early Tuesday, police said.Also in the capital, gunmen killed an employee of the mayor s office while he was driving in the Dora neighborhood, and police discovered eight blindfolded corpses, some of them showing signs of torture, officials said. The execution-style killings have become an almost daily occurrence in a wave of sectarian violence that has left more than 1,000 Iraqis dead since the bombing last month of a Shiite Muslim shrine. Tuesday s assaults came a day after 39 people were
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VERONA, Italy -- The Hungarian students had just finished a week of skiing in France when their bus swerved right, then left, then hit a highway barrier and burst into flames. Sixteen people were killed and over two dozen injured in a tragedy that sparked a national day of mourning in Hungary. The impact of the crash just before midnight Friday on the northern Italian highway was so violent that the overpass support column actually entered several rows into the bus, officials said Saturday. The ensuing fireball burned some of the 16 dead beyond recognition and torched the bus, leaving just a skeleton of twisted steel. A burning bus, which was carrying Hungarian students, is seen on a side of a highway, near Verona, northern Italy on Jan. 21, 2017. Italian Police/Handout via REUTERS No other vehicles were involved in the crash near Verona, and the cause wasnrsquo;t known, said a tearful police commander, Girolamo Lacquaniti. Of the 39 survivors, 26 we adidas originals mujer re injured, some seriously, he said. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told reporters in Budapest that one passenger was in an induced coma. The fire was so huge it took up practically half of the adidas campus homme three-lane highway, said Lanfranco Fossa, a businessman who stopped to offer help when he realized some injured youths had escaped the flames. These poor creatures, almost all of them were in s air force 1 hort-sle Srdv Half Of World s Youths At Risk
Trucks, helicopters and donkeys carried ballots to counting ce stanley kubek nters across Afghanistan on Monday, though early indications suggested voter turnout in landmark legislative elections was lower than in last year s presidential vote.Af stanley thermos ghan and international officials hailed Sunday s elections as a major success in the country s march toward democracy, but chief electoral officer Peter Erben said reports from about one-third of the polling stations indicated a turnout of just over 50 percent.CBS News Correspondent Mark Phillips video reports that the fear that the resurgent Taliban would try to sabotage the election proved unfounded. But turnout for these parliamentary elec stanley thermobecher tions was not as high as for the presidential election that chose President Hamid Karzai last October. International observers said that Taliban violence, which has killed more than 1,000 in the past six months, may have scared voters away.Results were not expected for more than a week.The government and its Western backers hailed the first elections for a national assembly in over 35 years as a strong show of defiance in the face of Taliban threats and determination to bring stability after decades of war and chaos. Afghanistan should be satisfied with the turnout in yesterday s election, Erben said. He said it compared well with elections in other postwar countries.Karzai praised voters mdash; who cast ballots in schools, mosques and even desert tents mdash; for coming out in spite of the terror
Avignon, Francemdash; A Frenchman being tried for recruiting strangers to rape his drugged wife has been hospitalized, his lawyer said Tuesday, in a development that raises the prospect of the trial being adjourned. Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old retiree who was to have been cross-examined for the first time later Tuesday, was hospitalized earlier in the day, his lawyer Beatrice Zavarro told the court. Presiding judge Roger Arata ordered the accused to be examined and emphasized that he could request a suspension of the trial, until his the defendant s state of health improves. Pelicot has been on trial since last week for repeatedly raping and enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife in her own bed between 2011 and 2020. Fifty other men, aged between 26 and 74, are also on trial for alleged involvement in the case, which has horrified France. His ex-wife and victim Gisele Pelicot, also 71, says she was troubled by strange memory lapses for years until police uncovered the abuse by chance after her husband was caught filming up women s skirts in a local supermarket. Domi af1 nique Pelicot, who has admitted to the charges against him, was to be questioned Tuesday afternoon. Gisele Pelicot arrives adidas original campus to attend a session in the trial of her ex-husband Dominique Pelicot, who has admitted to drugging her for nearly 10 years and inviting strangers to rape her at their home in Mazan, in Avignon, adidas campus southern France, Sept. 10, 2024. Mxlo 7 Dead as Latest Typhoon Hits Philippines
Insurgents stormed a jail about dawn Tuesday in the Sunni Muslim heartland north of Baghdad, killing at least 19 policemen and a courthouse guard. Authorities said all 33 prisoners in the lockup were freed and 10 attackers wer stanley thermos mug e killed in the battle, CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan reports.As many as 100 insurgent fighters mdash; armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades mdash; stormed the judicial compound in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles northeast of the capital. The assault began after the attackers fired a mortar round into the police and court complex, said poli stanley polska ce Brig. Ali al-Jabouri.After torching the police station, the insurgents detonated a string of roadside bombs as they fled, taking the bodies of many of their dead comrades with them, police said. At least 13 policemen and civilians and 15 gunmen were wounded in the attack.Five o stanley tumbler ther police were wounded in two separate roadside bomb attacks targeting patrols in northern and southern Baghdad early Tuesday, police said.Also in the capital, gunmen killed an employee of the mayor s office while he was driving in the Dora neighborhood, and police discovered eight blindfolded corpses, some of them showing signs of torture, officials said. The execution-style killings have become an almost daily occurrence in a wave of sectarian violence that has left more than 1,000 Iraqis dead since the bombing last month of a Shiite Muslim shrine. Tuesday s assaults came a day after 39 people were
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VERONA, Italy -- The Hungarian students had just finished a week of skiing in France when their bus swerved right, then left, then hit a highway barrier and burst into flames. Sixteen people were killed and over two dozen injured in a tragedy that sparked a national day of mourning in Hungary. The impact of the crash just before midnight Friday on the northern Italian highway was so violent that the overpass support column actually entered several rows into the bus, officials said Saturday. The ensuing fireball burned some of the 16 dead beyond recognition and torched the bus, leaving just a skeleton of twisted steel. A burning bus, which was carrying Hungarian students, is seen on a side of a highway, near Verona, northern Italy on Jan. 21, 2017. Italian Police/Handout via REUTERS No other vehicles were involved in the crash near Verona, and the cause wasnrsquo;t known, said a tearful police commander, Girolamo Lacquaniti. Of the 39 survivors, 26 we adidas originals mujer re injured, some seriously, he said. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told reporters in Budapest that one passenger was in an induced coma. The fire was so huge it took up practically half of the adidas campus homme three-lane highway, said Lanfranco Fossa, a businessman who stopped to offer help when he realized some injured youths had escaped the flames. These poor creatures, almost all of them were in s air force 1 hort-sle Srdv Half Of World s Youths At Risk
Trucks, helicopters and donkeys carried ballots to counting ce stanley kubek nters across Afghanistan on Monday, though early indications suggested voter turnout in landmark legislative elections was lower than in last year s presidential vote.Af stanley thermos ghan and international officials hailed Sunday s elections as a major success in the country s march toward democracy, but chief electoral officer Peter Erben said reports from about one-third of the polling stations indicated a turnout of just over 50 percent.CBS News Correspondent Mark Phillips video reports that the fear that the resurgent Taliban would try to sabotage the election proved unfounded. But turnout for these parliamentary elec stanley thermobecher tions was not as high as for the presidential election that chose President Hamid Karzai last October. International observers said that Taliban violence, which has killed more than 1,000 in the past six months, may have scared voters away.Results were not expected for more than a week.The government and its Western backers hailed the first elections for a national assembly in over 35 years as a strong show of defiance in the face of Taliban threats and determination to bring stability after decades of war and chaos. Afghanistan should be satisfied with the turnout in yesterday s election, Erben said. He said it compared well with elections in other postwar countries.Karzai praised voters mdash; who cast ballots in schools, mosques and even desert tents mdash; for coming out in spite of the terror
