Ex-Abercrombie CEO arrested on sex trafficking charges
Rianna Croxford
The former CEO of fashion giant Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) and his British partner have been arrested and are facing sex trafficking charges.
Mike Jeffries, his partner Matthew Smith and the couple’s alleged middleman were arrested on Tuesday morning.
The FBI and prosecutor's office are expected to announce more details at a press conference shortly.
Lawyers for Mr Jeffries and Mr Smith have both previously denied any wrongdoing by both men. Responding to the latest news, Mr Jeffries' lawyer told the BBC: "We will respond in detail to the allegations after the Indictment is unsealed, and when appropriate, but plan to do so in the courthouse – not the media."
Key suspect in Jamal Khashoggi murder has X account reinstated
Saud al-Qahtani had been suspended permanently on Twitter before Elon Musk took over and rebranded it as X
Tue 22 Oct 2024 15.19 BST
A key Saudi suspect in the murder of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 has had his account reinstated on X, the social media company controlled by Elon Musk, after it was permanently suspended under the company’s previous owner.
Saud al-Qahtani, a onetime key adviser to Mohammed bin Salman, had “direct involvement” in the murder of Khashoggi, according to a US intelligence assessment released by the Biden administration in 2021.
India to bolster law after airline bomb hoaxes cause chaos
India's civil aviation minister said a series of airline bomb threats is the work of "minors and pranksters." He wants to pass legislation to allow for tougher punishments and put an end to the travel chaos.
The Indian government is planning to introduce new legislation to combat a spate of hoax airline bomb threats which have caused travel chaos in the past week.
As of Tuesday afternoon, over 170 flights operated by Indian carriers had received bomb threats in a little over a week, including 80 since Monday night alone, according to The Economic Times newspaper in India.
All the threats have turned out to be fake but they have nevertheless caused widespread and costly disruption to airline schedules and inconvenienced thousands of passengers.
French researcher Laurent Vinatier appeals prison sentence in Russian 'foreign agent' case
French researcher Laurent Vinatier appealed a three-year prison sentence handed down by a Russian court for allegedly collecting military information and breaching Moscow’s “foreign agent” law, which Western nations have criticised as targeting their citizens on baseless charges to use them for prisoner swaps.
A Russian court said on Tuesday French researcher Laurent Vinatier had filed an appeal against a three-year prison sentence for breaching Moscow's "foreign agent" law, a case condemned by Paris.
Vinatier, who works for a Swiss conflict mediation NGO, is one of several Westerners to have been arrested in Russia since Moscow launched its Ukraine offensive in 2022.
"The appeal against the verdict was registered on October 21," the Zamoskvoretsky court said on its website, a week after Vinatier's sentencing.
Renewed focus on revising Japan-U.S. SOFA ahead of election
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 22, 2024 at 15:24 JST
Homemaker Aiko Nakasone heard the familiar rumble of military aircraft coming from a U.S. air base in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, at 10 p.m. on an early October evening.
She had just opened the window in her daughters’ room―one in elementary school and the other in junior high school―as they were getting ready for bed, but quickly shut it to block out the noise.
U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma sits in the middle of Ginowan, where the constant din of Ospreys and large helicopters fills the air, being particularly disruptive at night to residents such as Nakasone, 39.
Police in Mozambique disperse opposition protest after disputed election
Riot police in Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, fired tear gas to disperse a crowd protesting against alleged electoral fraud days after two opposition allies were shot dead.
Several hundred people, including journalists, scattered as heavily armed police marched down a main street on Monday. The Reuters news agency reported some police officers firing handguns while dispersing the crowd.
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