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Joel Le Scouarnec, a retired French surgeon, faces charges of severe crimes, involving sexual assault on 299 young victims ...

More than 50 people have died in recent weeks in two clusters of illness cases with unknown cause being investigated in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said on ...

The son of a retired French surgeon accused of raping and sexually assaulting hundreds of young patients told a court on ...

Trump's funding freezes could threaten the Colorado River. Some money was intended to keep the shrinking river flowing. And, ...

The youngest son of Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, a former surgeon on trial for the alleged assault or rape of 299 patients, told ...

This photograph shows a view of the courthouse on the opening day Monday of the trial of retired surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec on ...

Months after the Gisèle Pelicot case rocked France, Le Scouarnec is accused of raping or abusing 299 victims, most of them ...

Months after the Gisèle Pelicot case rocked France, Le Scouarnec is accused of raping or abusing 299 victims, most of them ...

The numbers involved in France’s largest child abuse trial are staggering: 299 alleged victims, sexually abused in 10 ...

The former surgeon has already been in jail after being found guilty in 2020 of abusing four children, including two of his ...

This courtroom sketch by Valentin Pasquier shows Joel Le Scouarnec, now 74, sitting in courtroom and accused of raping or ...