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Washington (AFP) - They can't bring back their children, siblings or partners, but five years on, the families of the 2019 Boeing crash victims want to ensure a similar tragedy never happens again. "We've got French people, Canadians, Americans, Irish, British, we're all there together and we're fighting for something together," Naoise Ryan, holding a photo of her late husband Mick, told reporters on Wednesday. The Irishman was one of 157 killed when a Boeing 737 MAX operated by Ethiopian Airlines plunged into the ground minutes after take-off on March 10, 2019. Ryan is among hundreds of fami...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A former funeral home director who allegedly stored a long-dead body and other remains at his house is being hunted by police in the US state of Colorado. Cleaners stumbled on the cremated remains, or cremains, of dozens of people after evicting Miles Harford from a property in Denver earlier this month. When police arrived, they found a hearse on the premises containing the body of a 63-year-old woman who had died 18 months earlier, along with more boxes of cremains, Denver police said Friday. Investigators said the body has been stored in the vehicle since her death in Au...
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Washington (AFP) - Mourners paid final tribute Wednesday to former US first lady Rosalynn Carter at a private funeral service attended by a frail Jimmy Carter, before she was buried at their home in the small town of Plains, Georgia. Jimmy Carter, 99, joined the funeral in a wheelchair after also attending a public ceremony Tuesday in Atlanta where two of his White House successors -- President Joe Biden and former president Bill Clinton -- as well as all five living first ladies paid their last respects. Rosalynn Carter, who died last week at the age of 96, was a key part of her husband's pol...
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Atlanta (AFP) - Former US president Jimmy Carter, 99, made a rare public appearance Tuesday to join his successors Joe Biden and Bill Clinton and all five living first ladies at the memorial service for his beloved wife Rosalynn. A frail-looking Carter briefly left hospice care to attend the service at a church in Atlanta, arriving in a wheelchair with a blanket on his lap that was embroidered with a picture of his wife's face. Carter did not speak, but the couple's children and grandchildren celebrated the "life well lived" of Rosalynn Carter, a humanitarian and mental health advocate who red...
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Washington (AFP) - Former US first lady Rosalynn Carter, the wife of former president Jimmy Carter, died Sunday at 96 at the couple's home in the southern state of Georgia, their nonprofit organization announced. Carter was best known for her work post-White House, as she and her husband championed human rights, democracy and health issues around the world -- all while maintaining a notably humble public image. She had joined her husband in at-home hospice care on Friday after being diagnosed with dementia in May. "Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, a passionate champion of mental health, car...
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Oceanside (United States) (AFP) - When Scout Frank lost her mother, she knew she needed to keep her close -- and hit upon the perfect solution when she found she could have her ashes tattooed into her skin. Clutching a small wooden box containing the cremated remains of her mom, Frank was emotional as she arrived at the tattoo studio of artist Kat Dukes in the California city of Oceanside. "It's a little bit overwhelming," she said, her voice choking. "But I know I'm in really good hands. "I'm really looked forward to just making my mama an even more permanent piece of my life." Dukes' tattoo ...
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Washington (AFP) - US actor Burt Young, a former boxer who earned an Oscar nomination for his breakout role as Sylvester Stallone's sidekick in the smash hit "Rocky" film series, has died at 83. Stallone, who starred as the boxer Rocky Balboa in the iconic Hollywood franchise, on Wednesday hailed his "dear friend" Young as an "incredible man" and artist. "I and the World will miss you very much...RIP," wrote the "Rocky" star on Instagram. Young's daughter, Anne Morea Steingieser, confirmed his death to The New York Times, which reported that he passed away on October 8 in Los Angeles. Born in ...
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New York (AFP) - The morgue manager at America's prestigious Harvard Medical School allegedly took dead body parts from his workplace without permission and then sold them, US prosecutors said Wednesday. Cedric Lodge, 55, has been charged with trafficking in stolen human remains, the US attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said in a statement. "Some crimes defy understanding," said the attorney, Gerard Karam. "It is particularly egregious that so many of the victims here volunteered to allow their remains to be used to educate medical professionals and advance the interests of scie...
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New York (AFP) - Harry Belafonte, the superstar entertainer who introduced a Caribbean flair to mainstream US music and became well known for his deep personal investment in civil rights, died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 96. The barrier-breaking artist-activist died of congestive heart failure at his New York home, his publicist said in a statement. Born in Harlem to a Jamaican mother and a father from the French territory of Martinique, the calypso singer and actor spent part of his childhood in Jamaica before returning to New York -- a binational upbringing that shaped his musical and poli...
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New York (AFP) - Harry Belafonte, the superstar entertainer who introduced a Caribbean flair to mainstream US music and became well known for his deep personal investment in civil rights, died Tuesday in Manhattan, his publicist said. He was 96. Born in Harlem to a Jamaican mother and a father from the French territory of Martinique, the calypso singer and actor spent part of his childhood in Jamaica before returning to New York, a binational upbringing that shaped his musical and political outlooks that saw him crusade for racial equality. Belafonte's calypso, the genre of Caribbean music tha...
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