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French movie star Gerard Depardieu has admitted in a Paris court to grabbing by the hips a woman who accuses him of sexual assault, but denied this was assault and said any crude comments he made were just because of his bad mood.

The plaintiff, Amelie K, who spoke in court after Depardieu on Tuesday, said he had touched her all over her body as he trapped her between his legs, while making explicit sexual comments, in an assault on a film set in 2021 that terrified her.

“I grabbed her…

Daraa (Quds News Network)– Residents of Ikwayya, a village in western Daraa, mourned their dead today after intense Israeli shelling targeted homes and farmland. The Israeli assault killed at least six civilians, with fears that the death toll could rise.

The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned the assault, calling it “a dangerous escalation in Israel’s continuous aggression against Syrian territory.” In a statement, the ministry said: “This assault is…

Israeli forces carried out airstrikes and a ground incursion into Syria’s Daraa countryside, killing seven and escalating regional tensions.

Seven people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the western countryside of Daraa, Syria, on Tuesday, just hours after Israeli forces targeted the Palmyra military airport and nearby sites in the Homs countryside.

Al-Jazeera reported that medical sources confirmed seven deaths, with…

Israel has resumed its assault on Gaza, shattering the ceasefire with Hamas. Hundreds of people were killed in the first week of renewed attacks and Palestinians have once again been given evacuation orders. As destruction mounts the hope of rebuilding Gaza is fading fast.

This week on Now You Know, we talk to Ms. Paula Gaviria, UN Special Rapporteur for the human rights of internally displaced people. We talk about the challenges involved in planning for the rebuilding of Gaza and ask, Will…