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The incident occurred in October 2024 at the Chi Phi fraternity house on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York. The student says she was pressured to use ketamine and was then sexually abused by several men. The local prosecutor's office initially did not prosecute the case.
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The attorney general's office will present the evidence to a grand jury to consider an indictment.
Very likely · Within weeks
There will be a public debate about the role of student associations at elite universities.
Likely · Within months
The fire in a warehouse with industrial waste in the Saale district has been extinguished and the danger has been averted. Two firefighters were slightly injured, the cause is still unclear.
In a traffic accident on State Road 52 between Oberscheidweiler and Strotzbüsch in the Eifel, a 68-year-old motorcyclist was seriously injured after colliding head-on with a car in a right-hand bend. The passenger of the car was slightly injured. Both were taken to hospital. The section of the route was closed for several hours.
A 47-year-old father from Rennes set fire to dry grass in fields in July after seeing plumes of smoke. The court sentenced him to 30 months in prison for negligent arson, even though he failed to recognize the danger and started the fire near a holiday camp with 300 children.
After an attack by a co-pilot on the captain of a Flydubai aircraft on the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, which forced an emergency landing in Tabuk, the UAE and Israel have launched a joint investigation into the background and possible terrorist motives.
Almost two years after an explosion outside a Cologne clothing store, a 21-year-old suspect was arrested in Rotterdam. He is said to have supported the main perpetrator. The incident is attributed to the so-called Cologne drug war.
In the Düsseldorf trial against a drug gang made up of wealthy families, the public prosecutor's office has demanded prison sentences of up to 13 years. The defendants are said to have made around 11 million euros in sales with cocaine, marijuana and other substances.