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Lesianu Zewdie Hweld, 44, of Halifax, is facing one count of sexual assault in connection with an incident that reportedly occurred this past weekend.

The court will be back in session on May 30th for closing submissions to Judge Ann Marie Simmons.

The Nova Scotia government is adding two new special prosecutors, focused on handling sexual assault cases in the province, to the Public Prosecution Service.

Bassam Al-Rawi's trial was scheduled to continue today in Halifax provincial court, but there were concerns raised about the translation of testimony from a forensic biologist into Arabic.

Owner of Lady Drive Her, Chriss McDow, says in the past week she's received an influx of calls from people wanting a female taxi driver.

Crown and defence lawyers made legal arguments on Tuesday in Halifax provincial court in an alleged 2012 incident involving Bassam Al-Rawi.

<p> Images of dead children fan Syria's protests despite government attempts to blunt fury <p>BEIRUT - The images grow no less shocking with time — a gaping wound on a tiny skull, the hair matted with blood; a gunshot that pierced the skin of a small torso and went straight toward the kidney; and finally, </p>

<p> Syrian protests grow despite crackdown, Internet cut; 34 dead in town famed for 1982 uprising <p>BEIRUT - A Syrian city that was bombed into submission three decades ago after a crushed uprising became a new centre for protest and violence Friday, as activists said troops opened fire on a crowd of thou</p>

<p> Syrian tanks reach tense city where security forces killed 65 in protest crackdown <p>BEIRUT - Syrian tanks rolled toward a tense central city mourning the deaths of dozens of protesters, reaching the outskirts late Saturday hours after a funeral procession through streets lined with shuttered shops an</p>

<p> Syrian troops descend on central city, shoot and wound 20 people before sealing off Hama BEIRUT - Syrian troops raided homes and made sweeping arrests in Hama on Monday, wounding at least 20 people before sealing off the city just days after about 300,000 protesters there held the largest demonstration sinc</p>

BEIRUT - A landmark mosque in Aleppo was burned, scarred by bullets and trashed — the latest casualty of Syria's civil war — and President Bashar Assad on Monday ordered immediate repairs to try to stem Muslim outrage at the desecration of the 12th century site.

BEIRUT - Syrian rebels made a new push into Damascus on Wednesday, clashing heavily with troops in the rebellious suburbs of the capital and firing mortars into the sprawling Palestinian refugee camp, activists said.

BEIRUT - Syrian rebels firing mortars and rocket-propelled grenades captured an oilfield in the country's east on Sunday after three days of fierce fighting with government troops protecting the facility, activists said.

GAZA, Palestinian Territories - President Mahmoud Abbas' surge of popularity following his bid for U.N. recognition for a Palestinian state is bound to give him a stronger hand against the rival Hamas group as they prepare to resume talks on a stalled power-sharing deal next week.

BEIRUT - Syrian tanks, security agents and pro-regime gunmen fanned out into the streets of several towns to root out protesters demanding the ouster of President Bashar Assad in a sweep Saturday that killed at least five people.

BEIRUT - Syrian forces launched a pre-dawn raid on an eastern city in an intensified crackdown as the government tried to keep the uprising from escalating during the holy month of Ramadan. The assault, and another on a central town, killed at least 10 people.

BEIRUT - Anti-government protesters in the Syrian city of Hama set up barricades and took up sticks and stones to defend themselves Monday after one of the bloodiest days so far in the regime's campaign to quell an uprising now in its fifth month.

BEIRUT - Activists accused the Syrian regime of misleading Arab League observers by taking them to areas loyal to the government, changing street signs to confuse them and sending regime supporters into rebellious neighbourhoods to give false testimony.

Syrian troops have taken full control of a town near the highway linking the capital Damascus with Jordan, a new advance in the regime's campaign to drive rebels from the strategic south, an activist group said Monday.

Halifax Regional Police say they have charged a taxi driver with sexually assaulting a female passenger.