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Former surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec is on trial on charges of raping or sexually assaulting 299 victims over nearly 30 years.

A local rights group has not yet estimated a death count, but there were reports of several people being killed or shot at, and several houses set on fire.

The couple was identified as a 35-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman. Mexico's Attorney General’s Office is investigating their deaths.

Beau Shroyer, 44, from Detroit Lakes, Minnesota., was found dead in a vehicle in Thienjo, a town in southern Angola, in October last year.

“The outbreaks, which have seen cases rise rapidly within days, pose a significant public health threat. The exact cause remains unknown,” a World Health Organization spokesperson said.

Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 26, is charged with threatening violence to a group, using a carriage service to threaten to kill and using a carriage service to menace and harass, police said.

Taiwan and China have also traded barbs this week over the severing of an undersea communications cable off the Beijing-claimed island’s southwest coast.

At least 23 others, all of them adults on a study trip, were injured in the accident in Prachinburi province.

The Malaysian government said it had given initial approval for the U.S.-based company Ocean Infinity to resume the search for MH370, which vanished in 2014 with 239 people on board.

It’s a sign that the Asian country’s demographic crisis might have turned a corner after the birth rate fell for eight consecutive years.

Tropical cyclones Rae, Seru and Alfred are all churning as the region is in the peak of a season that starts in November and ends in April.