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New York (AFP) - Donald Trump could not have made his feelings clearer: he would rather be anywhere else than in a New York courtroom Tuesday, on trial for business fraud. Dressed in a blue suit with a blue tie, former US president shifted between discomfort and anger, as he sat through the second day of the historic proceeding, the first criminal trial of a US president. "This is a trial that should have never been brought," Trump told reporters outside the courtroom, as he lashed out against President Joe Biden, his Democratic rival in the November presidential election, and what he called t...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Alec Baldwin had "no control" over himself on the set of a film where a cinematographer was shot dead, according to the prosecutor who has charged him with manslaughter. The A-lister was holding a Colt .45 during the preparation of a scene in the budget Western "Rust" when it went off, killing Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin, 66, is set to go on trial in New Mexico in July for involuntary manslaughter, a charge he denies. In a court filing released Monday, prosecutor Kari Morrissey sketched the outlines of what the jury might hear, including how Ba...
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Moscow (AFP) - Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who has spent a year behind bars in Russia, is awaiting a trial on espionage charges the White House says are fabricated but could still see him jailed for decades. The US-born son of Soviet emigres covered Russia for six years, including a stint with AFP, as the Kremlin made independent, on-the-ground reporting increasingly dangerous and illegal. His arrest in March 2023 on charges of spying -- the first such charge against a Western journalist since the Soviet era -- showed that the Kremlin was prepared to go further than ever b...
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Kempten (Germany) (AFP) - A German court handed an American man a life sentence Monday for raping and killing a fellow US tourist near Bavaria's famed Neuschwanstein castle last year. The district tribunal in the southern town of Kempten convicted the defendant, identified only as Troy Philipp B., 31, after he made a wide-ranging confession on the first day of his trial last month. The judges also noted the "particular severity of guilt", meaning he is unlikely to be released after 15 years as is customary with life sentences in Germany. Troy Philipp B. was convicted of raping and murdering th...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Getting shot on the set of "Rust" where a cinematographer was killed "felt like somebody had taken a baseball bat to my shoulder," the movie's director told a court Friday. Joel Souza described his confusion after being hit by a live round that should never have been on the set of the budget Western in October 2021. "There was an incredibly loud bang," he said of the moment that the Colt .45 actor Alec Baldwin was holding discharged. "It felt like somebody had taken a baseball bat to my shoulder. I remember that distinctly. And sort of stumbling back and shouting." Cinemato...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Actor Alec Baldwin waved his gun around and used it "as a pointing stick" on the film set where a cinematographer was shot dead, a court heard Thursday. Footage seen at the trial of armorer Hannah Gutierrez showed Baldwin, who was also a producer on the budget Western "Rust," gesticulating with a pistol loaded with blanks. It also showed him firing the gun within a few feet of camera operators and urging the young armorer to reload his guns quickly, chiding her for not having more weapons ready. "One more! One more! One more! Right away! Let's reload!" Baldwin shouts after ...
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Kempten (Germany) (AFP) - An American man accused of raping and killing a fellow US tourist near Bavaria's famed Neuschwanstein castle last year made a wide-ranging confession on the first day of his trial Monday. Troy Philipp B. faces several charges including one count of murder over the death of the 21-year-old US American woman. He also stands accused of the attempted murder of the victim's friend, also a US citizen. "The accused committed the incomprehensible act," his lawyer Philip Mueller told the district court in the southern town of Kempten. The two women, then 21 and 22 years old, w...
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Miami (AFP) - Former US president Donald Trump attended a closed-door hearing in Florida on Monday over federal charges he mishandled classified documents, as lawyers discuss who will have access to top-secret evidence. Trump, 77, pleaded not guilty in June to charges of unlawfully retaining national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements. The judge in the case, Aileen Cannon, summoned lawyers from both sides for Monday's proceedings. The ex-president and his entourage arrived around 9:00 am (1400 GMT) at the Fort Pierce courthouse, about 125 miles (200...
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Moscow (AFP) - A Russian court on Thursday extended until 5 April the detention of US-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva on charges denounced by her employers as politically motivated. Kurmasheva, a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) journalist, was arrested last year for failing to register as a "foreign agent". Her employers says he has also been charged with spreading "false information", which carries a potential jail term of up to 15 years. At the closed-door hearing, Kurmasheva's lawyers had asked that she be released under house arrest, pending trial. A court in the central city o...
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New York (AFP) - A jury in New York ordered former US president and 2024 candidate Donald Trump on Friday to pay $83.3 million to compensate the writer E. Jean Carroll, whom he was found to have sexually assaulted and defamed. The civil order, which prompted an audible gasp in the federal court, far exceeds the more than $10 million in damages for defamation that Carroll had sought. Trump lashed out almost immediately, calling the verdict "ridiculous" in a statement and promising to appeal. The jury reached its decision after slightly less than three hours of deliberations. Trump had been in c...
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