Darliza das Graças moved there a year ago. She owned a small bar in the “old” Bento Rodrigues and runs a restaurant now. Life here is wonderful, it’s good. But at the beginning it was very difficult, there were few residents,” she said. Now they are coming, it’s much better. More than 100 people have … Read more
PARIS (AP) — Women and men demonstrated together Saturday in Paris and other French cities in support of Gisèle Pélicot and against sexual violence highlighted by the harrowing trial of her ex-husband and dozens of other men being prosecuted for rapes while she was deliberately drugged and knocked unconscious. The demonstrations outside Paris’ criminal court, … Read more
The French judge peered over her glasses sternly in the vast underground courtroom towards a notorious figure seated in a glass cage. Arabelle Bouts, the lead judge of a Europe-wide people smuggling trial, warned, “There will be no more misbehaviour or threats. Is that understood?” The defendant, Mirkhan Rasoul, 26, calmly replied, “Yes.” Rasoul, already … Read more
The refusal of the senators to postpone proceedings until Saturday – for as long as legally allowed – demonstrates their determination to remove Gachagua, several months after his fallout with President William Ruto. Last week, a vast majority of MPs in the National Assembly – the lower house of parliament – voted to impeach him, … Read more