1. Prop gun in Alec Baldwin accidental movie set firing had live rounds, police say
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Alec Baldwin was handed what was described as a safe “ cold gun” on the set of his movie “ Rust”, but the mount gun contained live rounds when it was fired, according to details of the police disquisition into the fatal firing released on Friday. The shot hit photographer Halyna Hutchins in the casket, and director Joel Souza who was behind her, in the shoulder, according to a county sheriff’s affidavit filed in Santa Fe adjudicators court.
Hutchins failed of her injuries and Souza was injured but has ago been released from a original sanitarium. The assistant director who handed Baldwin the mount gun didn’t know it contained live rounds, the affidavit by Santa Fe Sheriff’s Department Detective Joel Cano said. Baldwin said on Friday he was in shock over the accidental firing as reports surfaced of walk-outs on the “ Rust” set before in the week over unsafe conditions. The actor said he was “ completely cooperating” with authorities to determine how the incident passed on Thursday.
2. Indian trip blogger among 2 killed in Mexico’s Tulum
A San Jose, California woman born in India was one of two foreign excursionists killed in the apparent crossfire of a medicine- gang shootout in Mexico’s Caribbean seacoast resort of Tulum.
Authorities in Quintana Roo, the state where Tulum, Playa del Carmen and Cancun are located, said one of the dead women was Anjali Ryot. An Instagram account under the same name showed a post of Ryot lounging and smiling on a riverside pier in Tulum two days agone. It listed her as a trip blogger from Himachal, India, living in California. A linked Facebook runner said she lived in San Jose.
3. US says it killed elderly al Qaeda leader in Syria with drone strike
The US service killed elderly al Qaeda leader Abdul Hamid al-Matar in a drone strike in Syria on Friday, a US Central Command spokesperson said. “ The junking of this al Qaeda elderly leader will disrupt the terrorist organisation’s capability to further compass and carry out global attacks hanging US citizens, our mates, and innocent civilians,” US Army Major John Rigsbee said in awritten statement. The strike comes two days after a US village in southern Syria was attacked. Rigsbee didn’t say if the US drone strike was carried out in retribution.
4. Israel outlaws Palestinian NGOs citinganti-terrorism laws
Israel’s Defense Ministry on Friday listed six Palestinian NGOs as “ terrorist organisations,” a move that makes them vulnerable to raids and apprehensions by Israeli security forces. The groups listed were the Union of Palestinian Women’s Panels (UPWC), Addameer, Bisan Center for Research and Development, Al-Haq, Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P) and the Union Of Agricultural Work Panels (UAWC).
A Defense Ministry statement said that these groups were “ controlled” by elderly members of the Popular Front for the Emancipation of Palestine (PFLP), a group that came ignominious in the 1970s for its use of aeroplane kidnappings. Israel contended that the groups use philanthropic backing from European governments “ as a central source for the backing of the PFLP’s exertion.”
5. Turkish lira continues to slide after interest rate cut
The Turkish lira continued to slide and reached a record low against the US bone Friday, a day after the Central Bank sprucely cut interest rates. It was another megahit after a global fiscal watchdog placed Turkey on a list of countries to cover for plutocrat laundering and terrorism backing The lira dropped to an each- time low of9.66 against the bone early Friday before settling at around9.61 against the US currency. The lira has lost further than 20 of its value since the launch of the time.
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