A defiant Ghislaine Maxwell said Friday that prosecutors had failed to prove her guilty of sex crimes, as her defense wound up in a trial that heard lurid claims she groomed minors for abuse by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. Speaking for the first time since her sensational trial opened late last month, the 59-year-old …
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A defiant Ghislaine Maxwell said Friday that prosecutors had failed to prove her guilty of sex crimes, as her defense wound up in a trial that heard lurid claims she groomed minors for abuse by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. Speaking for the first time since her sensational trial opened late last month, the 59-year-old …
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Jailed Hong Kong mogul Jimmy Lai said on Monday he was proud to be punished as a court prepared to sentence him and a group of democracy activists for attending a banned Tiananmen vigil. Lai, the 74-year-old owner of the now-shuttered pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, was found guilty of unlawful assembly charges alongside former journalist …
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Pro-democracy activists Ivan Lam and Joshua Wong arrive at Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre by prison van after being sentenced to jail for unauthorised assembly near the police headquarters during last year’s anti-government protests in Hong Kong, China December 2, 2020. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu December 2, 2020 By Jessie Pang and Clare Jim HONG KONG (Reuters) …
FILE PHOTO: Farmers attend a protest against the newly passed farm bills at Singhu border near Delhi, India, November 28, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui November 29, 2020 By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Thousands of Indian farmers, angry over reform of the agriculture sector, held a third day of protests on the outskirts of the …
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