## Maryland man whose attack on a woman with a semen-filled syringe was caught on camera sentenced to 10 years

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A Maryland man who plunged a semen-filled syringe into a woman in an Anne Arundel County grocery store is headed to prison.

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Thomas Bryon Stemen was sentenced to 10 years in prison for first and second-degree assault.

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According to investigators, Stemen tried to attack two other people before Peters.

Stemen had recently moved from Ohio and had six prior convictions on his record from 1986 to 1996. »

### The Taliban are lying, France's foreign minister says

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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian attends a joint news conference at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany September 10, 2021.

PARIS, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The Taliban are lying and France will not have any relationship with its newly-formed government, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said late on Saturday before heading for talks in Qatar on Sunday to discuss future evacuations from Afghanistan.

"They said they would let some foreigners and Afghans leave freely and (talked) of an inclusive and representative government, but they are lying," Le Drian said on France 5 TV. »

### 23 states have COVID-19 cases that surpass the national average. 21 of them voted for Trump, report says

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Of the 23 states with a total of new COVID-19 cases per capita surpassing the national rate, 21 voted for Trump.

14 of the 18 states with new death totals higher than the national ratio backed the former president in 2020.

Of the 23 states that have a total of new COVID-19 cases per capita that surpasses the national ratio, the media outlet reported that 21 voted for Trump in November. »

### Bishop resigns after falling for satanic erotic fiction author

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According to the BBC, he “became Spain’s youngest bishop” in 2010 at 41 years old.

Now, because he wanted this rap sheet to be a bit more colorful, Novell has left all of this behind to pursue a relationship with psychologist and author of “satanic-tinged erotic fiction,” Silvia Caballol.

They also say that Pope Francis has personally “urged Bishop Novell to undergo an exorcism,” though Novell’s refused. »

### Putin and Lukashenko move to integrate economies of Russia and Belarus

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The countries will move to integrate their energy markets while maintaining steeply discounted supplies of natural gas to Belarus, and Russia will provide a further $630m in loans to the cash-strapped Belarusian government, Putin said.

Belarus also claimed that Moscow had moved Su-30 fighters to Belarus in order to patrol the country’s borders with Europe.

“We are moving forward like civilised countries, only together, only as a union … nearly a single people,” said Lukashenko in a rhetorical flourish. »

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