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NEW YORK: Harvey Weinstein,  who has been facing the multiple sexual assault and rape charges, contacted a private investigator to probe women that he suspected were detailing sexual misconduct allegations against him to media persons, his rape trial heard on Friday. The prosecutors and a witness told the  trial court, which began hearing testimony this week, that the disgraced movie …

  NEW YORK: Disgraced Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein abused his status as a movie-producing titan to lure young women into violent sexual attacks, a prosecutor told jurors on Wednesday as the former film producer’s rape trial got underway. “The man seated right there was not just a titan in Hollywood, he was a rapist,” Assistant District Attorney Meghan Hast …

RAWALPINDI: The defe­nce ministry informed the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench on Thursday that retired Lt Col Inamur Rahim — who had been picked up from his residence in Askari 14, Rawalpindi — is in the custody of its subordinate agency and that he is being probed for his alleged violation of the Official Secret Act. A representative of the …

Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif will return to Pakistan on June 11, an accountability court in Lahore was told on Tuesday. On the last hearing of the two cases — Ashiyana Housing Scheme scandal and Ramzan Sugar Mills — Sharif’s lawyer had told the court that the opposition leader would return after Eidul Fitr. Accountability …

Wellington: People charged with possessing or distributing the video of a gunman´s deadly rampage at two New Zealand mosques last month have been getting death threats, local media reported Tuesday. Footage of the horrifying massacre, in which 50 people were killed, was live-streamed and quickly spread around the internet in the hours after the attack. Authorities warned people against sharing …