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'Fall of the ogre': Depardieu sparks #MeToo moment in French cinema
AFP, Published on 14/12/2023
» PARIS - For more than a year after rape allegations against French actor Gerard Depardieu, the film industry shrugged its shoulders and the cinematic legend with more than 200 titles to his name continued working.
More women accuse France's Depardieu of sexual violence: report
AFP, Published on 12/04/2023
» PARIS - More than a dozen women have accused veteran French actor Gerard Depardieu of sexual violence, with some allegations going back decades, according to a report from French investigative news website Mediapart.
Late Australian cardinal's funeral sparks Sydney protests
AFP, Published on 02/02/2023
» SYDNEY - Protesters denounced late Australian cardinal George Pell for his "bigoted" views on Thursday, as the Catholic Church remembered his "remarkable legacy" with a grand funeral mass in Sydney.
Funeral held for controversial cardinal Pell
AFP, Published on 14/01/2023
» VATICAN CITY: Several dozen people including bishops, cardinals and archbishops turned out for the funeral of the controversial Cardinal George Pell in the Vatican on Saturday.
George Pell denied public memorial in home Australian state
AFP, Published on 12/01/2023
» SYDNEY - An Australian state leader on Thursday emphatically ruled out a taxpayer-funded memorial for Cardinal George Pell, saying it would be "deeply distressing" for sexual abuse survivors.
Cardinal George Pell dies aged 81
AFP, Published on 11/01/2023
» SYDNEY - Cardinal George Pell -- a giant of the Catholic Church who was convicted and later cleared of sexual abuse in Australia -- has died in Rome aged 81, a church official confirmed Wednesday.
US jury finds Bill Cosby sexually assaulted teen in 1970s
AFP, Published on 22/06/2022
» LOS ANGELES - Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a teenager at the Playboy Mansion almost 50 years ago, a jury in California found Tuesday, in the first civil ruling against the veteran entertainer following dozens of allegations.
Probe finds ex-pope Benedict failed to act in German abuse cases
AFP, Published on 20/01/2022
» MUNICH: Former pope Benedict XVI knowingly failed to take action to stop four priests accused of child sex abuse in Munich, according to the findings of a damning independent report presented on Thursday.
American ex-priest faces East Timor child sex-abuse trial
AFP, Published on 10/06/2021
» DILI, East Timor: A defrocked American priest accused of molesting girls for years at an East Timor shelter has gone on trial in a case that split the overwhelmingly Catholic country.
Myanmar teen describes junta's brutal treatment of detained women
AFP, Published on 14/05/2021
» Beaten, kicked in the groin and threatened with sexual violence -- a young Myanmar teenager detained by the junta's security forces has described the treatment suffered by some women and girls behind bars.