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Santa Fe (United States) (AFP) - Alec Baldwin was accused of violating basic gun safety rules and playing "make-believe" with a deadly weapon, as the Hollywood star's trial for involuntary manslaughter over a fatal shooting on the set of Western movie "Rust" began Wednesday. Baldwin was holding a prop revolver during a fateful rehearsal in October 2021 when it fired a live round, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding the movie's director. In opening statements in a court in Santa Fe, New Mexico, prosecutor Erlinda Ocampo Johnson painted a picture of a powerful movie star who beh...
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Manhattan prosecutors said yesterday (Tuesday 9 July) that they intend to bring new sexual assault charges against Harvey Weinstein as they anticipate a November retrial for the disgraced media mogul. Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg said in court that prosecutors are actively pursuing claims of rape that occurred in Manhattan within the statute of limitations. She said some potential survivors that were not ready to step forward during Weinstein’s first New York trial have indicated they are now willing to testify. But when pressed by the judge, Blumberg said prosecutors have not y...
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Santa Fe (United States) (AFP) - Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial over a fatal shooting on the set of Western movie "Rust" began Tuesday with the selection of a jury who will now decide if a crew member's death was his fault. The Hollywood A-lister was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal in 2021 when it fired a live round, killing her and wounding the movie's director. Baldwin, 66, says he did not know the gun was loaded and did not pull the trigger. Prosecutors say he broke basic gun safety rules and acted recklessly on set. Dressed in a dark suit...
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After having received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Turin last year, US actor Kevin Spacey is set to receive several gongs this month. It has been announced that he has won an award for his voice performance in the thriller Control, given by the Folkestone Independent Film Awards in the UK. The actor does not appear on screen in Gene Fallaize’s movie, his first film after his acquittal last year, in which Spacey plays a man who hijacks a government official’s car in order to exact revenge. The part is entirely vocal. The awards are set to take place in Folkestone, Kent, on 20 July. It’s uncl...
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Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - A long-awaited showdown will take place this week in a historic Wild West frontier town, with both sides seeking justice for a fatal bullet fired from a six-shooter. But if Alec Baldwin's trial for manslaughter sounds like the plot of a Hollywood movie, the victims, the stakes and the tragic consequences are all too real. In October 2021, on the New Mexico set of his low-budget Western "Rust," a gun pointed by Baldwin discharged a live round, killing the film's cinematographer and wounding its director. Such is Baldwin's A-list fame and the rarity of on-set ...
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Kinshasa (AFP) - An American on trial over an alleged coup bid in DR Congo told a court on Friday that he had been forced into participating by his father who led the plot and was later killed. The alleged coup bid struck on May 19 when armed men attacked the home of Economy Minister Vital Kamerhe before raiding the building housing the offices of President Felix Tshisekedi. It was led by Christian Malanga, a Congolese man who was a "naturalised American" and who was killed by security forces, army spokesman General Sylvain Ekenge has said. His son Marcel Malanga, one of three Americans on tr...
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Yekaterinburg (Russia) (AFP) - US reporter Evan Gershkovich's closed-door espionage trial in Russia began Wednesday, 15 months after he was arrested on charges that he, his newspaper and the White House reject as false and baseless. Hours after the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter was brought into court in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, Washington said it was doing everything it could to secure his release. A senior Russian diplomat urged the United States to "seriously consider the signals" Moscow had sent its way over a possible swap deal. Gershkovich, 32, became the first Western journ...
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By Johannes LEDEL Stockholm (AFP) - Un tribunal de Stockholm a acquitté jeudi un ancien général syrien accusé de crimes de guerre dans son pays en 2012, jugeant insuffisantes les preuves de son implication. Mohammed Hamo, âgé de 65 ans et vivant en Suède, a été jugé au printemps pour "complicité" de crimes de guerre entre janvier et juillet 2012. L'armée syrienne a bien commis des "attaques aveugles, contraires au droit international" dans un quartier de Homs (centre) et dans la ville d'Al Rastan en 2012 mais "aucune preuve" n'a été présentée pour démontrer que la 11e division de l'ancien géné...
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Kinshasa (AFP) - Three American suspects in what the Congolese army called an attempted coup in Kinshasa last month committed acts "punishable by death", a court heard on Friday as their trial opened. Marcel Malanga and Taylor Christian Thomson, both 21, and 36-year-old Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun are among 50 defendants in the case and were the first to stand before the judge to hear the charges against them. "These acts are punishable by death," the presiding judge of the Kinshasa-Gombe military court, Freddy Ehume, told the three in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital. Defendants w...
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Florence (Italy) (AFP) - An Italian court on Wednesday reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander for accusing an innocent man of killing her British roommate in 2007, a murder she herself was jailed for before being acquitted. The American wiped away tears in court in Florence after she was sentenced to three years already served for having accused, during police questioning, a Congolese bar owner of murdering 21-year-old Meredith Kercher. "Amanda is very upset at the outcome of this hearing, she was looking to" draw a line under the saga "after 17 years of judicial procedure," her lawyer Carlo Dall...
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