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Main line-up at Berlin film festival
AFP, Published on 23/01/2023
» BERLIN - The 73rd Berlinale, Europe's first major film festival of the year, starts next month with new movies from around the world screening in the main showcase.
Final chord: royal piano restorer sells lifetime's collection
AFP, Published on 12/08/2021
» BIDDENDEN (UNITED KINGDOM) - There's little to distinguish the farm building in Kent, southeast England, from others nearby, except for one thing: the royal warrant over the door.
Woman in German custody over killings at disabled centre
AFP, Published on 29/04/2021
» POTSDAM (GERMANY) - An employee at a clinic for disabled people outside Berlin was arrested Thursday on suspicion of killing four people at the centre and wounding a fifth, police said, with the motive still unclear.
Coup risks making Myanmar 'uninvestible'
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/02/2021
» The coup in Myanmar, coupled with the country’s stalled financial-market opening, means global funds have little choice but to avoid the nation, money managers say.
Conservationists urge Mexico trade sanctions over near-extinct porpoise
AFP, Published on 24/08/2019
» GENEVA - Conservationists are urging countries to slap trade sanctions on Mexico over its failure to rein in illegal fishing that could doom the vaquita marina porpoise to extinction within months.
Synagogue shooter spoke of 'genocide,' police ID victims
AFP, Published on 28/10/2018
» PITTSBURGH - The shooter in the attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue spoke of "genocide and his desire to kill Jewish people," authorities said Sunday, as they identified the dead and worked to console the living.
'Golden State Killer,' an ex-cop, US Navy vet, warehouse worker
AFP, Published on 27/04/2018
» WASHINGTON - It was one of the most notorious unsolved crime sprees in US history -- a decade-long series of sadistic rapes and murders that terrorized tranquil California neighborhoods.
Ex-cop nabbed for 'Golden State Killer' murders, rapes 40 years ago
AFP, Published on 26/04/2018
» LOS ANGELES - California authorities, after a 40-year manhunt, on Wednesday announced the arrest of a 72-year-old former police officer on suspicion of being the notorious "Golden State Killer," a serial rapist and murderer who terrorised the state in the 1970s and 1980s.