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Verdicts expected for 8 people on trial over their role in the beheading of a teacher in France

Eight people accused of assisting an Islamic extremist who beheaded a French history teacher outside his school will hear the verdicts in their cases

The Independent UK

UTMB runners will have access to personalized online coaching in 2025, thanks to new partnership with RunMotion Coach

The partnership provides access to programs tailored to your objectives, schedule, level and conditions of fitness

Advnture

Friday briefing: Will the Gisèle Pelicot case finally change how we view violence against women?

In today’s newsletter: For years, Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife and recruited men to rape her. It could be a turning point in social and legal attitudes to sexual assault

The Guardian - UK

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Gisele Pelicot's Australian supporters are moved that their French heroine wore an Aboriginal scarf

A group of Gisele Pelicot’s Australian admirers say they're moved that the victim in France’s notorious drugging-and-rape case has acknowledged her distant supporters Down Under by wearing a scarf adorned with Aboriginal art

The Independent UK

Five People Who Defined 2024

From great leaps in artificial intelligence to the heroic defendant in a mass rape trial that shocked France, here are the stories of five people who made their mark on 2024: - Gisele Pelicot: anti-rape icon - Gisele Pelicot, 72, was at the centre of a mass rape trial in…

International Business Times

France and Comoros clash over migrants lost in Mayotte cyclone disaster

A row has erupted between France and the Comoros after Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau accused Comoran officials of facilitating illegal immigration to Mayotte, a French territory in the Indian Ocean. Mayotte is struggling to recover from Cyclone Chido, which devastated shanty towns housing many undocumented families.

Radio France Internationale

Why African countries are ousting France’s military, one by one

Paris’s influence on the continent faces the biggest challenge in decades

The Independent UK

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‘The world’s bravest woman’: what the papers say about the end of the Pelicot trial

Papers quote from Gisèle Pelicot’s speech outside court, after her ex-husband Dominique and 50 others were found guilty in France’s biggest rape trial

The Guardian - AU

The chain of events that led to Dominique Pelicot’s horrific crimes being uncovered

His ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot became a global feminist icon during a gruelling public trial which horrified the world

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on the Pelicot rape trial: Merci, Gisèle, from women everywhere

Editorial: Gisèle Pelicot’s extraordinary courage and composure has forced a reckoning in France and elsewhere. We must act on her demand for change

The Guardian - UK

Paul Pogba’s brother convicted of plotting to extort millions from France star

Mathias Pogba, a brother of the World Cup-winning France midfielder Paul Pogba, was sentenced on Thursday to three years in jail for his part in a plot to kidnap and extort 13 million euros out of his star sibling.

Radio France Internationale

Macron vows to rebuild Mayotte as cyclone survivors plead for aid

President Emmanuel Macron declared a national day of mourning in the French overseas territory of Mayotte, and announced an emergency fund for uninsured cyclone victims – as people in remote areas reported receiving no assistance since the disaster struck five days ago.

Radio France Internationale

Portugal, Spain, France Bust Contaminated Seafood Ring

A European operation has spared revelers a potential food poisoning nightmare before Christmas, seizing 30 tons of mollusks illegally fished in polluted waters and arresting 62 suspects, authorities said on Thursday.

International Business Times

Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men?

This was an extraordinary response to unimaginable crimes. Yet true change will only come when men engage with the culture that led us here, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

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Gisele Pelicot Speaks Out After Mass Rape Trial: 'A Very Difficult Ordeal'

Gisele Pelicot's ex-husband was jailed on Thursday for 20 years over her drugging and mass rape by strangers recruited online, in a case that shocked France and resonated around the world.

The Guardian - UK

Politicians hail courage of Gisèle Pelicot after historic ‘turning point’

Leaders from France and around the world welcome guilty verdicts as feminists urge changes to laws

Radio France Internationale

'A very difficult ordeal': Gisèle Pelicot's statement after mass rape trial

Gisèle Pelicot's ex-husband was jailed on Thursday for 20 years over her drugging and mass rape by strangers recruited online, in a case that shocked France and resonated around the world.

Radio France Internationale

Burkina Faso releases four French nationals after detaining them for a year

Burkina Faso's junta-led government said Thursday that it had released four French nationals it called spies, following Morocco-mediated negotiations with France.

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Mass Rape Case In Mazan Sparks Outrage And Protests

Women in Mazan, France, express fear and disappointment following a mass rape case and lenient sentences for the perpetrators.

The Independent UK

Dominique Pelicot’s lawyer: Rape trial ‘a good thing for justice’

A lawyer for Gisèle Pelicot’s ex-husband described the mass rape trial as a "good thing for justice" after Dominique Pelicot was jailed for 20 years after being found guilty of orchestrating the 72-year-old grandmother's horrific rape in a crime that shocked France.

Radio France Internationale

France pledges full crisis response as Macron visits cyclone-ravaged Mayotte

President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Mayotte on Thursday to survey the damage across France's poorest territory as rescuers continue their search for survivors of Cyclone Chido. Officials warn the death toll from the most destructive storm in living memory could reach hundreds – possibly thousands.

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