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Manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin to be dropped: lawyer
AFP, Published on 21/04/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin over a fatal shooting on a movie set are to be dropped, his lawyer and sources to US media said Thursday, as newly appointed special prosecutors take over the case.
Probe under way after Beijing hospital fire kills 21
AFP, Published on 19/04/2023
» BEIJING - An investigation was under way Wednesday after a fire ripped through a hospital in China's capital Beijing, killing 21 people, state media reported.
Baldwin film 'Rust' to resume filming this week
AFP, Published on 19/04/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Filming will resume this week on Alec Baldwin's "Rust," producers said Tuesday, some 18 months after it was halted by the fatal on-set shooting of the movie's cinematographer.
Century on, political fights rage over Turkey's dogs
AFP, Published on 06/09/2022
» ISTANBUL - Ubiquitous and iconic, Istanbul's street dogs have been swept up in a political storm involving President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and an app that helped get them killed.
Red Bull heir still at large 10 years on
AFP, Published on 03/09/2022
» A crashed Ferrari, a dead policeman and a fugitive heir to a multibillion-dollar fortune -- a decade on, Thailand is no closer to resolving one of its most notorious hit-and-run cases.
Electrical fire kills 41 in Cairo Coptic church
AFP, Published on 14/08/2022
» CAIRO - More than 40 people died when fire ripped through a Cairo-area Coptic Christian church during Sunday mass, forcing worshippers to jump out windows while bystanders braved flames and smoke to save children.
Search progresses for trapped Mexican miners
AFP, Published on 11/08/2022
» AGUJITA, Mexico: A soldier made a brief incursion on Wednesday into the flooded coal mine in northern Mexico where 10 workers have been trapped for a week.
Mexican president heads to mine disaster zone
AFP, Published on 08/08/2022
» AGUJITA (MEXICO) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that he would visit a disaster-hit coal mining region on Sunday to see firsthand a major operation to try to rescue 10 workers.
'Decisive day' for trapped Mexican miners
AFP, Published on 07/08/2022
» AGUJITA (MEXICO) - A major operation to rescue 10 trapped Mexican coal miners was approaching a crucial moment on Saturday, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said, raising the hopes of desperate relatives.
Pair of new studies point to natural Covid origin
AFP, Published on 27/07/2022
» WASHINGTON - An animal market in China's Wuhan really was the epicenter of the Covid pandemic, according to a pair of new studies in the journal Science published Tuesday that claimed to have tipped the balance in the debate about the virus' origins.