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Old US batteries making Mexicans sick
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 09/04/2023
» After returning home from his job at a car battery recycling plant in northern Mexico one evening in 2019, Azael Mateo Gonzalez Ramirez said he felt dizzy, his bones ached and his throat was raspy. Then came stomach pain, he said, followed by bouts of diarrhoea.
Helpless fish need heroes, too
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/04/2023
» Construction workers have been at work demolishing an abandoned tuberculosis hospital in Queens, New York, over the past several months, dismantling the long-empty wards and carting off the bricks. But first, they had to figure out what to do with a school of goldfish that for unknown reasons had come to call the flooded basement home. Three hundred of them.
'Blade Runner' Pistorius denied parole
AFP, Published on 31/03/2023
» PRETORIA: South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius was refused parole on Friday after seeking early release from prison, a decade after he shot and killed his girlfriend, lawyers and authorities said.
Gwyneth Paltrow ski crash accuser asks for $3.2mn
AFP, Published on 31/03/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for the man suing Gwyneth Paltrow over an accident on a swanky US ski slope said Thursday the actress should give him almost $3.3 million for his suffering.
'Hotel Rwanda' hero's jail sentence commuted
AFP, Published on 24/03/2023
» KIGALI: Rwanda said on Friday it has commuted the 25-year jail sentence against ailing "Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul Rusesabagina, a fiercely outspoken critic of President Paul Kagame who has been held behind bars for more than 900 days.
'Like an animal': replica of Navalny's cell set up in Paris
AFP, Published on 15/03/2023
» PARIS - A small concrete box marked with the word SHIZO (punishment cell in Russian) in giant red letters sits incongruously next to a 13th-century church just behind the Louvre museum in Paris.
Kremlin critic Kara-Murza goes on trial for treason
AFP, Published on 14/03/2023
» MOSCOW - Russia on Monday began the closed-door trial of jailed opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who faces more than two decades in prison on charges including treason for comments critical of the Kremlin.
Five things to watch for at the Oscars
AFP, Published on 11/03/2023
» HOLLYWOOD (UNITED STATES) - The 95th Academy Awards take place Sunday, with wacky multiverse movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once" leading the nominations with 11.
Oscar short docs race showcases booming art form
AFP, Published on 07/03/2023
» LOS ANGELES - When marine biologist Maxim Chakilev flings open the door of his ramshackle Siberian hut in the Oscar-nominated short documentary "Haulout" to find 100,000 honking and heaving walruses, the effect is breathtakingly cinematic.
Pistorius up for parole in girlfriend's murder
AFP, Published on 02/03/2023
» JOHANNESBURG: South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius, who killed his girlfriend 10 years ago, will know in about a month whether he will be released on parole, his lawyer said on Thursday.