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Jury finds Trump sexually abused writer in NY department store

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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.

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

“Today, the world finally knows the truth,” Ms Carroll said in a written statement following the verdict. “This victory is not just for me but for every woman who has suffered because she was not believed.”

Mr Trump’s lawyer said the former president plans to appeal against the decision.

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

The former president – who has denied Ms Carroll’s accusations – did not attend the two-week civil trial in the Manhattan federal court.

Ms Carroll, 79, 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.”

Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for the plaintiff said in a statement: “This is a victory not only for E Jean Carroll, but for democracy itself, and for all survivors everywhere.”

After the verdict, Mr Trump, 76, 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!”

The standard of proof in civil cases is lower than in criminal cases, meaning that jurors were only required to find that it was more likely than not that Mr Trump assaulted Ms Carroll.

While the jury found Mr Trump liable for sexual battery and defamation of Ms Carroll, they did not find Mr Trump liable of raping her. To do so, the jury would have needed to have been convinced that Mr Trump had engaged in non-consensual sexual intercourse with Ms Carroll.

(BBC News)

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S. Korea President faces impeachment

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South Korea’s president yesterday shocked the country when, out of the blue, he declared martial law in the Asian democracy for the first time in nearly 50 years.

Yoon Suk Yeol’s drastic decision – announced in a late-night TV broadcast – mentioned “anti-state forces” and the threat from North Korea.

But it soon became clear that it not been spurred by external threats but by his own desperate political troubles.

Still, it prompted thousands of people to gather at parliament in protest, while opposition lawmakers rushed there to push through an emergency vote to remove the measure.

Lawmakers were also able to make their way around the barricades – even climbing fences to make it to the voting chamber.

Shortly after 01:00 on Wednesday, South Korea’s parliament, with 190 of its 300 members present, voted down the measure.

President Yoon’s declaration of martial law was ruled invalid.

Defeated, Yoon emeged a few hours later to accept the parliament’s vote and lift the martial law order.

Now, he faces the prospect of possible impeachment and even expulsion from his own party.

Source: BBC

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S. Korean President declares martial law

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South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared emergency martial law.

The move comes as Yoon’s People Power Party and the main opposition Democratic Party continue to disagree over next year’s budget bill

In a surprise late night television address he says the measure is necessary to protect the country from North Korea’s communist forces and to eliminate anti-state elements

Analysis: Yoon is mired by several controversies and has been a lame duck president since the last general election

Both the ruling party and opposition have vowed to block the declaration, Yonhap news agency reports.

(BBC News)

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Michelin chef ‘gutted’ at theft of 2,500 pies

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A van containing 2,500 pies destined for a Christmas market has been stolen, prompting an appeal from a Michelin-starred chef.

Tommy Banks, who runs award-winning restaurants in North Yorkshire, says “nearly a tonne” of pies, worth £25,000 in total, were taken after the van was driven away from Barker Business Park in Melmerby on Sunday night.

The refrigerated vehicle was due to make a delivery to the chef’s pop-up pie stall at York Christmas Market, however staff found it had vanished on Monday morning.

“The team are very gutted because it’s days and days of work gone,” he told the BBC.

“Vans get replaced on insurance but all that work and all those ingredients, just nicked.”

The stolen items, which included steak and ale pies, turkey and cranberry pies and butternut squash pies, would have been enough to stock Tommy’s Pie Shop for a week, according to the chef.

He continued: “The thing that I’m gutted about especially is, what are they going to do with them, are they going to dump them somewhere?

“It’s just a real shame.”

North Yorkshire Police said it had been informed of the theft and asked anyone with information to get in touch.

“The guys are absolutely scrambling but I think we have enough to get through today and we’re just working like crazy to make more,” he said.

“Hopefully we’ll be able to stock ourselves back up again.”

Mr Banks put out a video message on social media appealing for the thieves to “do the right thing” and donate the pies to a community centre to avoid thousands of meals going to waste.

“I know they’ve gone now and we obviously aren’t going to recover them to sell them,” Mr Banks said.

“I just think that’s 2,500 people we could feed and there’s a lot of people who could do with a hot meal right now. If we can find them, they can have them.”

(BBC News)

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