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1 week ago | nytimes.com | Tracy Mumford |Will Jarvis |Ian Stewart |Jessica Metzger |Catherine Porter

By Image President Trump issued a slew of clemency actions on Wednesday, according to a White House official familiar with the matter, wiping the convictions or cutting sentences for more than two dozen people. Credit... Doug Mills/The New York Times Tune in, and tell us what you think at [email protected]. For corrections, email [email protected].

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Catherine Porter

VANNES, France — The former surgeon who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing 299 people, most of them children, was sentenced to the maximum 20 years in prison by a French court Wednesday, in what is considered the largest pedophilia case in the country’s history. “It was predation on victims the most vulnerable, when they were sick in the hospital,” Judge Aude Buresi told the courthouse in Vannes, a coastal town in Brittany, where the majority of the abuse took place.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Catherine Porter |Ségolène LE STRADIC

A former surgeon confessed to abusing at least 299 people, mostly children, in what is considered the largest case of its kind in French history. The former surgeon who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing 299 people, most of them children, was sentenced to the maximum 20 years in prison by a French court on Wednesday, in what is considered the largest pedophilia case in the country's history.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Catherine Porter

VANNES, France — Dr. François Simon was one of the many people who knew that Joël Le Scouarnec had been convicted of downloading child sexual abuse imagery in 2005 and was continuing to operate on children as a gastric surgeon. More than a decade later, the French police arrested Le Scouarnec. They would eventually charge him with the rape or sexual assault of 299 former patients, most of them children.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Aurelien Breeden |Catherine Porter |Liz Alderman

​Big players in the crypto sector argue that new European cryptocurrency rules may be enabling recent abductions and are demanding changes and more security. A man, beaten and doused in gasoline, was found in the trunk of a car. A couple were abducted before dawn from their countryside house and sped to separate locations. A woman was attacked in broad daylight on a Paris street by men trying to drag her into a van.