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High-profile Australian rape case dropped due to fears over accuser’s mental health

By Angus Watson, CNN Prosecutors in Australia have ended high-profile legal action against a former government staffer accused of raping a colleague inside Parliament House, saying a retrial would pose a “significant and unacceptable risk” to the woman’s life. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) director of public prosecutions, Shane Drumgold, told reporters Friday that the

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Meghan and Harry faced ‘disgusting and very real’ threats, ex-counterterror chief says

By Joshua Berlinger, CNN Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and her husband Prince Harry faced “disgusting and very real” threats from right-wing extremists, a former counterterrorism police chief has said. In an interview with Britain’s Channel 4 News on Tuesday, Neil Basu said the threats against Meghan were serious and credible enough that authorities had assigned

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Brazilian court rejects election challenge from outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro

By Camilo Rocha, Heather Law and Heather Chen, CNN The head of Brazil’s electoral court on Wednesday rejected Jair Bolsonaro’s petition to annul ballots from this year’s presidential vote, calling the outgoing President’s allegation that some voting machines had malfunctioned “ludicrous and illicit” and “ostensibly conspiratorial toward the democratic rule of law.” In his ruling,

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