Gisele Pelicot’s ex-husband among dozens of men convicted in France rape trial – CBS News Watch CBS News The ex-husband of Gisele Pelicot was handed a 20-year prison sentence in a French court Thursday after he admitted to drugging her for almost a decade so that he and dozens of men could rape her. Another…
A judge in France on Thursday found the former husband of Gisèle Pelicot, who admitted to drugging and raping her repeatedly over the course of almost a decade and inviting dozens of other men to assault her as well, guilty of aggravated rape. He was given the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Over the course…
French President Emmanuel Macron named key ally Francois Bayrou as his fourth prime minister of 2024 on Friday, but the scale of the challenge facing the veteran centrist was immediately clear as the Socialist Party refused to join his coalition government. Bayrou, 73, gave a sober assessment of whether he could tame a hung parliament…
President-elect Donald Trump is off on his first international trip since he was re-elected to the White House. He will join world leaders and dignitaries in Paris to celebrate the renovation and reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral five years after a devastating fire destroyed the landmark. Earlier this week, Trump said he had accepted an…
Irish international Denis Coulson, along with four other rugby players, has today gone on trial in France over the alleged gang rape of a student. The trial, held in the southwestern French city of Bordeaux, had originally been scheduled for June but was delayed after Coulson was badly injured in a traffic accident. Coulson is…
The chief of MI6 has said that the world is more dangerous than it has been in the last forty years amid ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and the West’s mounting tensions with Russia. Speaking at the British embassy in Paris, Sir Richard Moore also warned that Britain and its allies are facing a ‘reckoning’ as…
Johannesburg — It’s often called the forgotten conflict, but the civil war that has torn Sudan apart for 19 months is fueling the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis. In just over a year and a half, 13 million people have been displaced from their homes. At least one overcrowded camp for displaced civilians is already dealing with…
Paris — There was a brief altercation between a small number of fans early into Thursday’s Nations League soccer game between France and Israel despite heavy security inside the stadium, a week after violence erupted in Amsterdam in connection with an Israeli club team’s visit. Around 10 minutes after the game kicked off as scheduled…
Syracuse, Nebraska — Gerri Eisenhauer’s father, Army Pvt. William Walters, was shipped off to World War II before she was even born. In 1944, her family got back his body and a U.S. government letter that only said he had died somewhere in France. “I just always wondered, where he died, how he died, it was…
Four teens were wounded, two of them seriously, by an axe wielded during a fight on Monday on a suburban train outside Paris, police sources said, with the main suspect later arrested. One of the victims – all aged 16 or 17 – had a hand cut off and another had their skull split open….
