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Last of five suspects in Mumbai gang rape arrested

NEW DELHI, India (AP):Police yesterday arrested the last of five men wanted in the gang rape of a photojournalist in Mumbai, and said charges would be filed soon in a case that has incensed the public and fueled debate over whether women can be safe in India. The victim, a 22-year-old Indian woman, said she was anxious to return to work after last Thursday night's assault, in which five men repeatedly raped her while her male colleague was beaten and tied up in an abandoned textile mill in the country's financial capital.

New York sues Donald Trump for US$40 Million

ALBANY, New York (AP):New York's attorney general sued Donald Trump for US$40 million Saturday, saying the real estate mogul helped run a phony "Trump University" that promised to make students rich but instead steered them into expensive and mostly useless seminars, and even failed to deliver promised apprenticeships.Trump shot back that the Democrat's lawsuit is false and politically motivated. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says many of the 5,000 students who paid up to US$35,000 thought they would at least meet Trump but instead all they got was their picture taken in front of a life-size picture of The Apprentice TV star.

22,000 deported to Niger, Cameroon, Chad

KANO, Nigeria (AP):The interior minister says Nigeria has deported 22,000 illegal migrants to neighbouring countries in a crackdown related to an Islamic uprising in the northeast. Minister Abba Moro accused "criminals among these illegal aliens" of abetting Islamic extremists who want to overturn democracy and install strict Shariah law throughout Africa's most populous nation of more than 160 million people divided almost equally between Muslims and Christians. He told a news conference Friday that all 22,000 were sent to neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon. He said security and immigration officials have identified 84 illegal border crossings where they intend to back up patrols with electronic surveillance.