TV soap star arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing FIVE underage boys: Police swarm home and seize computers after accusations against man who's worked with 'some of Britain's most famous names'

A TV soap star has been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing five underage boys.

Police apparently swarmed the person's home before they arrested the actor, who cannot be named at this time, on suspicion of child sex offences.

The star - who is understood to have a major role on a TV soap - has denied the allegations and is currently on bail.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14008765/TV-soap-star-arrested-suspicion-sexually-abusing-FIVE-underage-boys.html

Twisted Denver cardiologist who drugged and raped nearly a dozen women learns his fate in court: 'Society is a darker place because of you'

A serial rapist who wept in court as he was convicted over a string of attacks against women he met on dating sites has been sentenced to 158 years in prison.

Cardiologist Stephen Matthews drugged and raped women after luring them to his Denver home in a four-year reign of terror between 2019 and the start of last year.

Eleven victims came forward to testify against him but prosecutors fear there were dozens more as one branded him 'one of the most prolific serial rapists in the history of the state of Colorado'.

The mother of the rapist doctor pleaded for leniency, telling him 'I love you always, and no matter what', but victims welcomed the sentence, branding him a 'narcissistic monster'.

'We are now a powerful army of survivors, and you are nothing,' one said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14007655/Stephen-Matthews-sentenced-drugging-raping-women-colorado.html

Georgia’s pro-Western president calls for mass street protests

Salome Zurabishvili has said she does not recognize the Saturday parliamentary election results she blamed on Russia

Georgia’s president, Salome Zurabishvili, does not recognize the national parliamentary election results and called on people to join protests against it. The elections were held in Georgia on Saturday. According to the official results, the ruling Georgian Dream party received almost 54% of the vote, while various opposition forces attracted between 11% and 3%.

Earlier, the president claimed that the vote was won by what she called “European Georgia,” and despite alleged “attempts to rig elections.” On Sunday, she held a series of meetings with various opposition parties.

Several pro-Western opposition forces, including the Unity-National Movement (UNM) and ‘Coalition for Change’ announced on the same day that they would not be joining the new parliament as they did not recognize the vote results either. The parties’ leaders accused the Georgian Dream of what they called “stealing the European future” of Georgia and even supposedly staging a “constitutional coup.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/606591-georgian-president-call-mass-protests/

Moscow to introduce smart ID cards for migrants

Electronic identification will contain all info about a foreigner arriving in the Russian capital, the mayor has said

Moscow will begin issuing electronic identity cards next year for citizens from common-travel-area countries who come to the Russian capital, mayor Sergey Sobyanin has said.

Russia has visa-waiver programs with more than three dozen countries, including the Central Asian states from where most of the guest workers in the country come.

The smart ID cards for migrants will be introduced in the capital in 2025 as part of an ongoing trial, Sobyanin told TASS on Friday.

“All data will be uploaded to the electronic ID of a foreign citizen: when he arrived, what is his biometric data, where he works, where he is registered, and so on,” the mayor explained.

As part of the program, police will also be equipped with special reading devices to access information on the smart cards, the mayor stressed.

According to Sobyanin, the electronic identification cards are going to be the first thing that officers will be looking at when checking migrants’ documentation.

If the system displays a red light it means that the holder of the ID is on a wanted list or that they have violated the migration regime, he said. In such an instance, the police would detain that person, the mayor added.

Sobyanin said that, starting from next year and as part of a trial run, biometric data will be collected from citizens of visa-free partner states coming to Moscow by air. This database of the photographs and fingerprints of non-nationals is expected to make crime fighting more effective, he explained.

Russia’s Investigative Committee announced earlier this month that migrants had committed more than 26,000 crimes since the start of the year, with the number of violations by undocumented migrants having tripled, from 2,880 in 2023 to 8,059.

Non-nationals were also responsible for 73 extremist crimes, a 14% rise compared to last year. “Many of the visitors justify their radical attitudes with their religious beliefs. In addition, they often openly demonstrate a negative attitude towards the local population,” the agency noted.

According to Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are currently some 6.2 million foreign citizens living in the country, of which an estimated 740,000 are there illegally.

https://www.rt.com/russia/606584-moscow-migrants-sobyanin-identifications/

More Editors Quit the LA Times Over Its Presidential Endorsement.

Several editors have left the Los Angeles Times newspaper after the newspaper refused to endorse any presidential candidate for the 2024 election. Robert Greene and Karin Klein left the paper along with editorial page editor Mariel Garza. Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong halted the editorial board's endorsement process as it was preparing to back Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/10/27/more-editors-quit-the-la-times-over-its-presidential-endorsement/