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E Jean Carroll: Jury finds Trump sexually abused writer in NY department store - BBC

E Jean Carroll arrives for her civil trial against former President Donald Trump on 9 May 2023

By Madeline Halpert

BBC News, New York

A jury in a civil case has found former President Donald Trump sexually abused a magazine columnist in a New York department store in the 1990s.

But Mr Trump was found not liable for raping E Jean Carroll in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman.

The jury also found Mr Trump liable for defamation for calling the writer's accusations "a Hoax and a lie".

It is the first time Mr Trump has been found legally responsible for a sexual assault.

The Manhattan jury ordered Mr Trump to pay her about $5m (£4m) in damages.

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Because the trial was in civil court - rather than criminal - Mr Trump will not be required to register as a sex offender.

The jury of six men and three women reached their decision after less than three hours of deliberations on Tuesday.

Mr Trump - who denied the accusations - did not attend the two-week civil trial in the Manhattan federal court.

Ms Carroll held the hands of both her lawyers as the verdict was read in court and smiled as she was awarded damages by the jury.

Mr Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, shook her hand as the trial ended, telling her: "Congratulations and good luck."

Ms Carroll did not stop outside court, but told reporters "we're very happy" before leaving in a car with her attorneys.

After the verdict, Mr Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social in all capital letters: "I have absolutely no idea who this woman is.

"This verdict is a disgrace - a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time!"

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The trial saw a tense cross-examination between Ms Carroll and Mr Trump's attorneys.

Her legal team called 11 witnesses to corroborate her claims that Mr Trump had assaulted her in the lingerie department of the luxury store in 1995 or 1996.

They included two women who also say they were sexually assaulted by Mr Trump decades ago, and two long-time friends of hers who said she told them about the encounter with Mr Trump shortly after it occurred.

On the stand, Ms Carroll described in graphic detail what she alleges happened in the store and the trauma she says she has endured as a result.

"I'm here because Donald Trump raped me and when I wrote about it, he lied and said it didn't happen," she told the court.

Mr Trump called no witnesses and appeared only in a video of a deposition that was played for jurors in which he denied rape.

"It's the most ridiculous, disgusting story," Mr Trump said in the footage. "It's just made up."

Ms Carroll's lawsuit argued that Mr Trump had defamed her in an October 2022 post on his social media site in which he called her claims a "complete con job" and "a Hoax and a lie".

Her legal team argued Mr Trump, 76, had acted as a "witness against himself" during the deposition when he doubled down on comments he made in a 2005 recording.

In the audio, known as the Access Hollywood tape and leaked in 2016, Mr Trump suggested women let stars "do anything" to them, including grabbing their genitals.

That's what he did to Ms Carroll, her lawyer Roberta Kaplan argued. Ms Kaplan is not related to the judge in the case, Lewis Kaplan.

This is a breaking news story and will be quickly updated.

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Imran Khan supporters break into army headquarters in fury at former prime minister's arrest - The Telegraph

Protesters enraged by the arrest of Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former prime minister, on Tuesday broke into the headquarters of the army in an unprecedented show of defiance against the powerful military.

Mr Khan, the legendary cricketer, was arrested in the morning by security forces who stormed the Islamabad High Court before bundling him into an armoured car.

Video footage showed dozens of officers from the paramilitary Rangers Police force shoving and manhandling the 70-year-old, who walks with a limp following an assassination attempt last year.

Furious protesters descended on major cities and military sites across the country as leaders of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) called for a national ‘shutdown’.

The political temperature in Pakistan was already at boiling point after Mr Khan over the weekend named a senior officer in the feared Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) military spy network as behind the attempt on his life.

Dozens of protesters were filmed breaking into the home of a military commander in Lahore before smashing his furniture and setting the building on fire.

Police fired tear gas at protesters and water cannons at protesters in the capital Islamabad and Karachi, the country’s largest city.

In Peshawar, a mob razed the Chaghi monument - a mountain-shaped sculpture honouring the location of Pakistan’s first nuclear test.

Smoke erupts from objects set on fire by angry supporters of Imran Khan as police fire tear gas to disperse them during a protest in Peshawar Credit: Muhammad Sajjad/AP

Three people were killed when security forces opened fire in the city of Quetta, while at least eighteen were shot in the northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Their condition was unclear on Tuesday night.

In Rawalpindi, demonstrators broke through the gate to the army’s headquarters, clubbing a coat-of-arms on their way through.

Cyril Almeida, a respected political columnist, said that the break-in at General Headquarters was “unreal”.

“Either the revolution is here or something terrible is about to unfold,” he wrote on Twitter.

Plainclothes police officers beat a supporter of Imran Khan as they detain him when he with others blocked a road as a protest in Peshawar Credit: W.K. Yousufzai/AP

Mr Khan has been locked for months in an increasingly tempestuous duel with the military, which he alleges oversaw his ouster in a 2022 no confidence vote.

The military has ruled the nation for almost half of its history and, although it is widely seen as pulling the strings of political affairs, discussing that influence in public has long been deemed taboo.

Mr Khan, who attended Oxford University before becoming Pakistan’s cricket captain, was attending court to face one of 100 charges of corruption filed against him since he left power. He claims the charges are politically fabricated.

It was unclear on Tuesday whether the paramilitary Rangers had the authority to arrest Mr Khan.

Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said that Mr Khan had failed to appear before the court despite being issued several notices. “The arrest has been conducted by the National Accountability Bureau for causing losses to the national treasury,” he said.

Allies of the former prime minister called it an “abduction”.

Aamer Farooq, the chief justice of the Islamabad High Court, demanded an explanation from the capital’s police chief and the interior ministry for why the Rangers had burst into the court premises to seize Mr Khan.

Mr Farooq said he would summon prime minister Shahbaz Sharif if he did not receive a satisfactory response.

Later in the evening Mr Farooq ruled that the arrest of Mr Khan was indeed legal.

Supporters of Imran Khan throw stones after police fire tear gas to disperse them after protests against the arrest of the former prime minister in Lahore Credit: K.M.Chaudary/AP

An eyewitness of the arrest, who did not want to be named, told the Telegraph that Mr Khan was “grabbed by the collar, lifted from his wheelchair” and then “dragged out on the road”.

Gohar Khan, Mr Khan’s lawyer, said his client was beaten over the head and in the leg where he was shot.

Azhar Siddique, a senior lawyer in Pakistan, said the arrest of the former prime minister within the court premises was illegal, unconstitutional and amounted to contempt of the court.

On Saturday, Mr Khan said a major general in the ISI, Faisal Naseer, attempted to assassinate him twice.

“Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)’s Major-General Faisal Naseer tried to kill me twice. He is also involved in the killing of (TV anchor) Arshad Sharif. He also stripped my party Senator Azam Swati naked and inflicted severe torture on him,” Mr Khan said during a public rally in Lahore.

A supporter of Imran Khan throws stones using a slingshot toward police officers during a protest in Lahore Credit: K.M. Chaudary/AP

His arrest came a day after the military issued a furious denial of his “baseless” allegations.

“The timing of the arrest is striking,” said Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center.

“The senior army leadership is uninterested in repairing the rift between itself and Khan, and so with this arrest it’s likely sending a message that the gloves are very much off.”

Mr Khan was arrested by the Rangers amid allegations he, his wife and other party leaders signed off on a property deal that cost the exchequer £190m.

As part of the deal, the case alleges, Mr Khan was given use of land to help form Al-Qadir University. He denies the charges.

He was in court to face separate charges that he profited from the sale of luxury gifts he did not declare during his term as prime minister.

The storm of protests comes as Pakistan faces a severe economic crisis. Mr Khan is calling for early elections against the struggling coalition government.

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2023-05-09 18:36:00Z
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Russian troops abandon positions near Bakhmut, says Wagner boss - Al Jazeera English

Yevgeny Prigozhin launches another scathing attack on Russian defence chiefs, saying soldiers are being given ‘criminal’ orders.

The chief of Russia’s Wagner Group has accused a Russian military unit of fleeing positions near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, in his latest scathing attack against Russia’s military leadership.

“Today, everything is being done so that the front line crumbles. Today, one of the defence ministry’s units fled one of our flanks, abandoning their positions. Everyone fled,” said Yevgeny Prigozhin, who had earlier threatened to pull his fighters out of Bakhmut on May 10 if he does not receive badly needed ammunition.

In a video released on the Telegram messaging app on Tuesday, Prigozhin said troops were fleeing because of the “stupidity” of Russian army commanders.

“A soldier shouldn’t die because of his leaders’ absolute stupidity,” he said. “The commands they receive from the top are absolutely criminal.”

Russia’s defence ministry said in a statement later in the day that “assault troops” – normally a reference to Wagner units – were “continuing to fight in the western part” of Bakhmut.

The ministry said Russian paratroopers “provided assistance”, but did not mention Prigozhin’s accusation of soldiers abandoning their posts.

Wagner forces have spearheaded Moscow’s fight for the eastern Ukrainian city, which had a pre-war population of about 70,000 people, but in recent weeks, internal divisions have deepened, with Prigozhin repeatedly blaming Russia for failing to send his group enough weapons.

The fight for Bakhmut is the longest and bloodiest battle of the Ukraine war so far, with each side understood to have suffered huge losses with thousands of soldiers killed.

Also on Tuesday, Prigozhin said he and his mercenaries would be seen as traitors if they abandoned their battle positions in the city.

In his messages shared on Russia’s Victory Day – the anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II – Prigozhin said that he had received a “combat order” on Monday, saying if Wagner abandoned positions, it would be regarded as “treason against the motherland”.

“That was the message to us,” Prigozhin said.

“[But] if there is no ammunition, then we will leave our positions and be the ones asking who is really betraying the motherland. Apparently, the one [betraying the motherland] is the person who signed [the order to supply too little ammunition],” he added, saying he would keep pleading for more ammunition for a “few more days”.

Despite his rage towards Russia’s military leaders, Prigozhin has never directly criticised Russian President Vladimir Putin.

An ally of the president known as “Putin’s chef” because of his company’s Kremlin catering contracts, Prigozhin has been sanctioned by the West for his role in Wagner.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow had failed to capture Bakhmut despite a self-imposed deadline of May 9 to give Putin a battlefield trophy in time for Russia’s Victory Day celebrations.

Moscow regards capturing Bakhmut as a stepping stone towards taking other cities in Ukraine’s industrial east, but Western observers say Bakhmut’s fall would not represent a major win for Moscow or change the battlefield.

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2023-05-09 15:02:57Z
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Live news: Anti-corruption agents arrest Imran Khan in Pakistan - Financial Times

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2023-05-09 10:24:10Z
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Ukraine-Russia war latest: 'A real war has been unleashed... we have repulsed international terrorism,' says Putin - The Telegraph

Vladimir Putin has said that Russia's future "rests on" soldiers fighting in Ukraine as he blamed the West for sparking the war in his annual Victory Day speech.

"There is nothing more important now than your combat effort," the Russian president said, addressing troops fighting in Ukraine, some of whom were present at the parade.

He continued: "The security of the country rests on you today, the future of our statehood and our people depend on you."

Elsewhere in the 10-minute speech on Red Square, Putin said that Russia has "repulsed international terrorism."

He said a “real war has been unleashed against Russia" adding that the war in Ukraine has placed the global community “at a breaking point”.

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2023-05-09 10:29:12Z
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Israel Gaza strikes kill top militants and 10 civilians - BBC

A photo shows a building on fire after a missile strike

By David Gritten

BBC News

At least 13 Palestinians, including three commanders of the militant group Islamic Jihad, have been killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip.

A Palestinian health official said six women and four children were among the dead. Another 20 people were injured.

Israel said it had launched an operation targeting militants who posed an imminent threat to its citizens.

Islamic Jihad has vowed revenge and Gaza-based militants are expected to respond with rocket fire into Israel.

Correspondents say one significant factor will be the extent to which Hamas, which controls the Strip, joins in.

Israel officials are said to be preparing for days of fighting.

The strikes were the deadliest since three days of fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad last August.

Islamic Jihad is the biggest militant group next to Hamas in Gaza. It has been responsible for many of the rocket attacks Israel from the territory in recent years and is sworn to Israel's destruction.

There was a serious flare-up last week, as Islamic Jihad and other groups fired several barrages of rockets into Israel over two days following the death in an Israeli prison of a Palestinian hunger striker. The Israeli military carried out air strikes in response.

The latest strikes took place in the early hours of Tuesday morning, when 40 Israeli warplanes and helicopters attacked in several waves across Gaza, hitting homes and causing panic among residents.

Pictures showed at least two apartments with their fronts ripped away and others damaged.

Islamic Jihad's military wing, the al-Quds Brigades, said three of its commanders were killed, along with their families.

It identified them as Jihad Shaker al-Ghannam, secretary of the al-Quds Brigades' Military Council; Khalil Salah al-Bahtini, the commander of its Northern Region, and Tariq Muhammad Ezzedine, who it said was "one of the heads of military action" in the occupied West Bank.

"As we mourn our martyr leaders, along with their mujahideen wives and a number of their children, we affirm that the blood of the martyrs will increase our resolve," the al-Quds Brigades said. "We will not leave our positions, and the resistance will continue, God willing."

Israel's Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, said: "Any terrorist who harms Israeli citizens will be made to regret it."

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Bahtini was the senior operational officer of Islamic Jihad in Gaza, and that he was responsible for the rocket fire from Gaza in the last month.

"He was an imminent threat to the security of Israeli civilians," it added.

It added that Ghannam was a senior member of Islamic Jihad's rocket force and that Ezzedine was in charge of co-ordination with the group's operatives in the West Bank and planning attacks on Israeli civilians there.

The IDF said its aircraft also struck 10 sites used to manufacture weapons and six Islamic Jihad military facilities.

Spokesman Lt Col Richard Hecht said the operation had "achieved what we wanted to achieve", according to AFP news agency.

When asked about child casualties, he replied: "If there were some tragic deaths, we'll look into it."