'I tried to say no repeatedly': More men accuse ex-Abercrombie boss over sex events
Rianna Croxford
More men have come forward to the BBC accusing the former chief executive of Abercrombie & Fitch and his British partner of sexual exploitation. Some allege they were abused, and some that they were injected with drugs.
Luke says he was shocked as he was guided into Mike Jeffries’ presidential suite in a hotel in Spain. "It was like a movie set of an Abercrombie store," he recalls of the event in 2011. "And I thought we were going to do a photoshoot."
He says the room was dimly lit with erotic photos of men’s abs adorning the dark walls. In the middle, a group of assistants dressed in Abercrombie & Fitch uniforms - polos, blue jeans and flip-flops - were casually folding clothes on a table, pretending to be shop workers, he says.
Icelandic fishing giant Samherji sues art student for spoofing corporate website
High court told ‘culture-jammed’ apology for high-profile corruption scandal ‘did not qualify as parody’
Sat 14 Sep 2024 15.57 BST
Iceland’s biggest fishing company is suing an art student at London’s high court for spoofing its website and issuing a fake public apology over a high profile corruption scandal.
The costly lawsuit, which will be heard this month, is feared by the student’s supporters to have a potentially chilling effect on artists engaging critically with large corporations, while also raising questions about the UK’s status as the go-to litigation jurisdiction for powerful businesses.
Oddur Eysteinn Friðriksson, a 41-year-old Icelandic artist and MA fine arts student at the University of Bergen who goes under the moniker Odee, describes his practice as “culture jamming”, a term used for artists such as US duo The Yes Men or British street artist Banksy, who impersonate brands or companies to draw attention to corporate malpractices.
Serbia plans to bring back compulsory military service
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says he has approved reinstating compulsory military service. The country abolished compulsory military service 23 years ago.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday he had signed an agreement for the return of mandatory military service in his country, which abolished it in 2011.
The compulsory service would last 75 days, he told cadets being promoted at a ceremony at the country's Military Academy.
Serbia abolished compulsory military service 23 years ago, relying since then on a professional army.
Turkey buries US-Turkish activist killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank
More than a week after US-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank, mourners gathered in her hometown of Didim in western Turkey on Saturday for her funeral service. Eygi's death has sparked international condemnation and calls for an independent inquiry. The Israeli military said the 26-year-old volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement was "unintentionally" hit while its forces were responding to a "violent riot", and that it was looking into the case.
Hundreds of people waving Turkish and Palestinian flags gathered for the funeral on Saturday for Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-American activist killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Turkey's Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmus and main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Ozgur Ozel were among mourners at the ceremony in the Turkish Aegean coastal city of Didim.
Tunisia arrests dozens of opposition members in pre-election crackdown
Ennahdha party calls mass arrests an ‘unprecedented campaign of raids and violations’ before October 6 poll.
At least 80 members of Tunisia’s largest opposition party Ennahdha have been arrested, party officials said, as thousands took to the streets to protest against President Kais Saied ahead of the presidential election.
As the campaign season formally begins on Saturday, opposition parties, politicians and human rights groups are accusing Saied’s administration of using “arbitrary restrictions” and intimidation to secure his re-election in the October 6 poll.
Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves
As right-wing rioters attacked communities with racist violence across parts of the UK last month, 22-year-old climate activist Cressie Gethin sat in a prison cell.
Her crime? Organizing a disruptive protest against new government-granted licenses to drill for oil — a planet-heating fossil fuel — in the North Sea.
In late July, a London court found Gethin and four other members of the Just Stop Oil activist group guilty of “conspiring intentionally to cause a public nuisance,” after recruiting protesters to climb structures along the M25 — a major ring road around London — bringing traffic to a standstill in parts over four days in November 2022.
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