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Shadrack Sibiya had denied grooming a 16-year-old and raping an 18-year-old. A lawyer representing Lt Gen Shadrack Sibiya submitted his resignation letter at his disciplinary hearing on Monday, a police spokesperson said. The charges relate to allegations that he sexually groomed a 16-year-old girl and raped an 18-year-old woman. He is also facing a charge of trafficking. Sibiya has denied all the charges. He says he did have sex with.

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A 14-year-old was detained after the middle-school principal and teacher were injured. The ninth-grade student was detained "immediately" after the incident at Lakanal middle school, Aubagne Mayor Jean-Pierre Squillari said. French media reported the suspect was 14. No children were harmed and the teachers have been treated for injuries which are not life-threatening, Squillari added. Broadcaster BFMTV and Le Parisien reported that the incident was not thought to be related.

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It comes after the armed group hit Riyadh's international airport and another facility, killing 13 people, in a significant escalation. Watch: Footage from inside Riyadh's airport shows the moment the strike hit on Saturday Saudi Arabia's energy minister has vowed a "serious" response to the deadly attacks on the kingdom's airports and oil and gas facilities by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi movement. "The events of recent weeks are serious. Our response.

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The march follows a chaotic weekend in Delhi which saw thousands of protesters being detained by police. This will be the latest in a series of demonstrations in Delhi, with thousands of security forces deployed and roads barricaded in the capital. Attempts to hold a protest by the Cockroach Janata Party pressure group over the weekend led to thousands of demonstrators being detained. Opposition parties allege that under Chief Election.

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Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, BBC finds. Watch: The documents that were falsified to allow Roman Abramovich to evade tax The world's biggest accountancy firm helped in falsifying documents to hide Roman Abramovich's wealth and evade tax, BBC Panorama has found. Accounts signed off by Deloitte in Cyprus meant assets such as superyachts, mansions and private jets worth $672m (£508m) vanished from.

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Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have criticised the deal, which was announced weeks before the US midterm elections. Trump on Friday announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to release 300,000 tonnes of diesel immediately "to the American and global marketplace" followed by several other shipments. That is despite signing legislation to authorise fresh US sanctions and tariffs on nations that import Russian oil and gas just weeks ago.