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Google Proposes Fix to Solve Search Monopoly

The search giant’s proposals included allowing flexibility for companies and consumers in choosing a search engine.

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A Google executive said the company’s proposed remedies addressed a court’s findings “without putting Americans’ privacy and security at risk or harming America’s global technology leadership.”

During Pelicot Trial, Avignon’s Ramparts Give a Platform to Denounce ‘Rape Culture’

A feminist collective, the Amazons of Avignon, has been plastering the walls of the city with testimony from the trial of the 51 men who were convicted in the Gisèle Pelicot rape case.

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The walls of Avignon, France, draped with a banner in French meaning “Rape is rape.” The Pelicot trial was occurring in the modern courthouse just across the road.

51 Men Guilty in Rape Trial That Horrified France

Dominique Pelicot, who admitted to drugging and raping his wife for almost a decade and to inviting dozens of strangers to join him, was convicted on Thursday of aggravated rape and other charges and was sentenced to the maximum 20 years in prison. The court also convicted the 50 other defendants, most of them on rape charges. Catherine Porter, a New York Times reporter, followed the four-month trial and reports from Avignon.

Gisèle Pelicot’s Testimony in France Rape Trial Becomes a Message of Hope

Dozens of men who abused Gisèle Pelicot were convicted, including the man who invited them to do so: her husband of 50 years. She wanted the public trial to show rape victims they were not alone.

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Gisèle Pelicot leaving the courthouse in Avignon, France, after judges sentenced her former husband on Thursday to 20 years for serially raping her.

Gisèle Pelicot’s Testimony in France Rape Trial Becomes a Message of Hope

Dozens of men who abused Gisèle Pelicot were convicted, including the man who invited them to do so: her husband of 50 years. She wanted the public trial to show rape victims they were not alone.

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Gisèle Pelicot leaving the courthouse in Avignon, France, after judges sentenced her former husband on Thursday to 20 years for serially raping her.

Gisèle Pelicot: What Courage Looks Like

The French rape trial is over. The verdicts have been levied. And Gisèle Pelicot’s image has become a symbol of female strength around the world.

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Gisèle Pelicot, the woman at the center of rape trial that has transfixed France.
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