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Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood says the shootings began shortly before 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday and occurred at a business and a home in Bakersfield, about 90 miles north of Los Angeles.

An investigation earlier this year in the United States found rampant sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by about 300 Catholic priests in Pennsylvania.

Under Section 377A of Singapore's Penal Code, a man found to have committed an act of "gross indecency" with another man could be jailed for up to two years, although prosecutions are rare. The law does not apply to homosexual acts between women.

In May last year, attempts to privatise the carrier collapsed after a US private equity firm withdrew its bid for a 49-percent stake.

Joshua Horner, a plumber from the central Oregon town of Redmond, was convicted on April 12, 2017, of sexual abuse of a minor.

Archbishop Georg Gaenswein said the years-long scandal, and recent revelations in the Pennsylvania grand jury report, showed just "how many souls have been wounded irrevocably by priests.

On September 11, 2001, the plane -- one of four commandeered by Al-Qaeda militants -- crashed into a field in the small town of Shanksville, about 130 miles (200 kilometers) northwest of Washington.

The attack came less than a week after a fragile truce halted fierce clashes between rival armed groups in Tripoli, the latest eruption of violence in Libya, which has been in turmoil since a 2011 uprising.

Michelle Bachelet, UN human rights commissioner voiced concern over the sentences passed along with 47 life sentences in a case involving 739 defendants from a 2013 sit-in protest by supporters of an Islamist president ousted by the military.

The transgender suffered 80 per cent burn injuries and died while he was being taken to a hospital in Lahore.

Wilders, speaking on the sidelines of a conference in Italy, expressed shock over the attack, in which a man stabbed and injured two American tourists at Amsterdam's central station. Dutch media identified the assailant as a 19-year-old Afghan.

The issue of how funds are made available to developing nations has emerged as a key sticking point at the talks in Bangkok which have made little headway.

A mob of around a dozen people, wearing black with their faces covered hurled rocks, bottles and a metal pipe at the restaurant on August 27. Owner Uwe Dziuballa suffered an injury to the shoulder during the attack.

The decision came after Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government defended Atif Mian's nomination to the Economic Advisory Council led by Prime Minister Imran Khan.

A piece was published by an anonymous senior official in New York Times a day after excerpts from a bombshell book that also claimed that White House staff were constantly battling to rein in the president's worst impulses.

Strong and stretchy, condoms lend themselves to various industrial as well as recreational applications beyond contraception and protection against sexually transmitted infections, Cubans say.