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Low-budget filmmakers turn to smartphones to shoot scenes

The image quality has improved so much on smartphone cameras that low-budget producers are shooting entire films with the handheld devices.

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Education official shot dead in Afghan

​An education official was shot dead by unknown armed men in Afghanistan's eastern province of Ghazni, a local official said Wednesday.

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Polish truck driver shot long before Berlin attack - report

A Polish truck driver whose hijacked vehicle was used to crash into a Berlin Christmas market was shot in the head several hours before the attack and could not have attempted to foil it as previously thought, Bild newspaper reported on Tuesday (Dec 27).

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Berlin truck attack suspect shot dead in Milan: Italian media

The Tunisian man suspected of carrying out the deadly Berlin truck attack was shot dead by police in Milan Friday, Italian media reported, citing security sources.

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What does a $22,000 cognac actually taste like?

Want to feel the warm, gently percolating inner glow of a fireside cognac this Christmas?

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102 police officers killed, 715 people killed by police in 2016 in U.S.

The number of deaths of police officers in the United States was 102 to date in 2016, according to the latest data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

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"Knife-wielding man" shot, wounded outside Israeli mission in Ankara

​A "knife-wielding" man was shot and wounded outside the Israeli mission in Ankara on Wednesday, but no one was hurt among the embassy staff.

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Explosion, stabbing, gunshots in U.S. over weekend

​Twenty-nine people were injured in an explosion in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City Saturday evening, and the city mayor said there has so far been no evidence of a terror connection.

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U.S. police targetted in at least three shootings after Dallas attack

​ U.S. Police officers were targeted in at least three separate shooting incidents on Friday as the country was still reeling from three deadly shootings in four days which threatened to pit the country's African-American community and law enforcement officials against each other.

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Obama: US police shootings of black men 'should concern all'

US President Barack Obama has said all Americans should be concerned about the frequent police killings of black men.His comments, as he arrived in Poland for a Nato summit, came after two more black men died in such incidents.

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PM Lee Hsien Loong marks Youth Day with jump shot photo, urges youth not to be afraid of making mistakes

A "young at heart" Facebook post by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to mark Youth Day on Sunday (July 3) has prompted a deluge of jump shot photos from fellow Singaporeans.

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Two injured by gun shots in Denmark

​Two persons were shot and injured Saturday night in a shooting incident in Elsinore, north of Copenhagen, in Denmark -- a nordic country which is regarded as one of the safest place to live in.

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Suspects in north China armed kidnapping shot dead

Two suspects who allegedly kidnapped the chairman of a real estate group in north China's Shanxi Province on Tuesday were shot dead by police.

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Hong Kong customs official shot dead at airport: media

​A male customs official was shot dead at the Hong Kong International Airport Tuesday afternoon.

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Shootings leave 6 dead in U.S. Michigan

At least six people have been shot dead in a random serial shooting in Kalamazoo City in the southern part of the U.S. state of Michigan late Saturday night.

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Mourners pay respect to Chinese student killed in US shooting

Grief along with calls for self-defense were expressed on Monday at a memorial service for 19-year-old Jiang Yue, a Chinese exchange student who was shot and killed in a road confrontation in Arizona over the weekend.

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Escaped inmate David Sweat shot and captured: local media

​New York's second escaped inmate, David Sweat, has been shot and captured close to the Canadian border, local media reports said on Sunday.