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WASHINGTON: Prominent Indian-American attorney Neomi Rao, nominated by President Donald Trump for the powerful DC Circuit Court of Appeals, has apologised for the "insensitivity" in her college days articles on date rape and sexual assault. Rao came under fire during her confirmation hearing last week over op-eds she wrote as an undergraduate at Yale, the Politico reported. In an article on date rape, Rao wrote that if a woman "drinks to the point where she can no longer choose, well, getting to that point was part of her choice". PTI
Swastikas found scrawled on French Jewish symbols
PARIS: A tree planted in a Paris suburb in memory of a young Jewish man who was tortured to death in 2006 has been chopped down, authorities have said, confirming the latest in a series of anti-Semitic acts in France. Ilan Halimi was kidnapped by a gang that demanded huge sums of money from his family, believing them to be rich because he was Jewish. In two separate incidents in the past two days, swastikas were drawn on Paris postboxes containing portraits of late Holocaust survivor Simone Veil and the word Juden (German for Jews) was sprayed on the window of a bagel bakery in the capital. AFP
Germany shuts two publications for militant ties
Berlin: German police on Tuesday raided and shuttered two publishing companies linked to banned militant group the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The interior ministry declared bans against Mezopotamien Publishing and MIR Multimedia, based in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony states. They had used the "disguise of publishing companies" to benefit the PKK, which Germany banned as a terrorist group in 1993, the ministry said. AFP
5 Pak cops killed in terrorist attack
Lahore: Five policemen were killed on Tuesday when militants attacked their van in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The incident occurred in Paroha tehsil in Dera Ismail Khan district. The terrorists, hiding behind bushes, attacked the police van with heavy firing. Four policemen were killed and the station head officer was injured, said police. PTI
Piggyback: An American iguana sits on an Aldabra tortoise, the largest in the world, at the Lille zoo park in France. AFP
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