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Los Angeles (AFP) - Megan Thee Stallion forced her cameraman to watch her having sex in a moving car, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles. Emilio Garcia says the incident, which happened on the Spanish holiday island of Ibiza, was part of a campaign of harassment that also included fat-shaming him. "Emilio should never have been put in a position of having to be in the vehicle with her while she had sex with another woman," said Garcia's lawyer Ron Zambrano. "'Inappropriate' is putting it lightly. Exposing this behavior to employees is definitely illegal." The suit alleges the inciden...
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Valladolid (Spain) (AFP) - The #MeToo movement "made a big difference" since women now feel more empowered to say no to unwanted sexual advanced, US actor Sigourney Weaver said on Friday in Spain. "We knew the Me Too movement wasn't going to change things overnight," she told journalists in the northwestern city of Valladolid. "It's a problem that women have in every field," the 74-year-old star of the Aliens film franchise added. "I think it has made a big difference to how women feel and how empowered we feel to say no, to say stop." Weaver, a three-time Oscar nominee, will be honoured on Sa...
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Madrid (AFP) - Spanish police on Friday said they had arrested a man wanted by Washington for allegedly conspiring with cryptocurrency experts to help North Korea evade US sanctions over its nuclear programme. Alejandro Cao de Benos, the founder of a pro-Pyongyang affinity organisation who bills himself as a "special delegate" for the government of North Korea, was arrested on Thursday at Madrid's Atocha train station as he arrived from Barcelona, a police spokesman told AFP. The 48-year-old Spaniard faces up to 20 years in jail if convicted, Spanish police said in a statement. His extraditio...
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Paris (AFP) - After a bitter split from her footballer ex Gerard Pique, Colombian superstar Shakira is back with a vengeance. First she released a diss track that nearly broke YouTube and on Monday she struck a deal with Spanish authorities to avoid the embarrassment of a tax fraud trial related to her years in Barcelona with Pique. The legal woes of the woman dubbed the queen of Latin music since her 2005 smash hit "Hips Don't Lie" are not yet at an end, with a second Spanish investigation into alleged tax evasion still hanging over her. But the trial that had been due to start on Monday was ...
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Barcelona (AFP) - A Spanish court has closed a probe into the death of software mogul John McAfee at a prison near Barcelona in 2021, ruling he committed suicide, court documents showed Friday. The 75-year-old founder of the popular anti-virus McAfee was found dead in his cell back in June 23, 2021. Just hours earlier, a Spanish court had authorised his extradition to the United States on tax evasion charges. Although an autopsy determined he had died by suicide, his widow demanded further checks and another autopsy, arguing that McAfee was not suicidal. But in a ruling dated July 24 that was ...
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New York (AFP) - Venezuela's former intelligence chief Hugo Armando Carvajal pleaded not guilty in a New York court Thursday to US drug trafficking charges following his extradition from Spain. Carvajal, who served as intelligence chief under the former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, is accused of providing support to drug trafficking by the FARC guerrilla group in Colombia. New York federal prosecutors allege he used his high office to coordinate the smuggling of approximately 5,600 kilograms (12,345 pounds) of cocaine from Venezuela to Mexico in 2006 that was destined for the United States. ...
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New York (AFP) - Venezuela's former intelligence chief was extradited Wednesday from Spain to the United States where he will face charges of drug trafficking. General Hugo Armando Carvajal, who served as intelligence chief under the former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, has long been sought by US officials who suspect him of providing support to drug trafficking by the FARC guerrilla group in Colombia. Prosecutors in New York allege he used his high office to coordinate the smuggling of approximately 5,600 kilogrammes (12,345 pounds) of cocaine from Venezuela to Mexico in 2006 that was destin...
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Madrid (AFP) - US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday that stronger regulation and greater agility was required in supervising the banking sector following a string of high-profile failures earlier this year. "We need to strengthen both regulation and supervision," Powell told a banking conference in Madrid, referring to the turmoil that hit the banking sector in March. On March 10, California lender Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed, with its fall rapidly followed by the failure of another regional US lender and the merger under pressure of Switzerland's Credit Suisse with do...
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Paris (AFP) - France's Francoise Gilot, who died Tuesday aged 101, survived what she called the "hell" of being Spanish artist Pablo Picasso's mistress and muse to become a renowned artist in her own right. The Picasso Museum in Paris confirmed her death to AFP, after the New York Times reported Gilot had passed away following recent heart and lung ailments. While two of the other women in Picasso's life died by suicide, and two others had mental breakdowns, Gilot stood up to the giant of modern art, and was the only woman to leave him of her own accord. "Pablo was the greatest love of my lif...
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Madrid (AFP) - Zara owner Inditex, the world's biggest fashion retailer, reported record profits for 2022 despite halting operations in Russia and soaring global inflation. Net profit reached 4.1 billion euros ($4.4 billion) last year, a 27 percent jump from 2021, said Inditex, whose eight brands include younger fashion chain Pull&Bear and upmarket label Massimo Dutti. In-store and online sales for the world's biggest fast fashion retailer also hit a record, surging 17 percent to 32.6 billion euros. "The excellent results of 2022 show the strength of our business model," said Inditex chief exe...
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