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A US television news employee was shot dead and another wounded while covering an earlier fatal shooting incident in Orlando, Florida. Orange County Sheriff John Mina told a news conference that the employees worked for broadcaster Spectrum News 13. The Orange County Sheriff's Office said earlier on Twitter that one person was in custody. READ MORE: The NSW pocket where thousands have been left homeless A man has been arrested after three people were killed in multiple shootings in Florida. (CNN) Keith Melvin Moses, 19, has been arrested and charged with murder in connection to a shooting on Wednesday morning, Mina said. Moses is expected to be charged in four other shootings that occurred later in the day, including the killing of the Spectrum News 13 journal...

A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home has left the hospital and gone to her new home, where she will live with her paternal aunt’s family. The girl had been at the hospital since hours after the February 6 earthquake. She was discharged Saturday and her aunt and uncle adopted her and gave her a new name, Afraa, after her late mother. Afraa's mother died in the quake along with her father and four siblings. A day after the infant arrived at the hospital, officials there named her Aya — Arabic for “a sign from God.” READ MORE: 'I think this is the last video I will ever shoot for you': Turkish teen filmed 'last moments' from apartment Khalil al-Sawadi holds Afraa, a baby girl who was born under the rubble caused by an earthq...

More than two weeks after a toxic train wreck unleashed plumes of black smoke, contaminated the soil and fuelled anxiety in East Palestine, Ohio, residents have reported a growing number of ailments – from rashes to nausea to trouble breathing. Now, the state will open a health clinic on Tuesday for residents who worry their symptoms might be linked to the February 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train and the subsequent release of the toxic chemical vinyl chloride. And medical teams from the US Centres for Diseases Control and Prevention and the US Department of Health will be on the ground in Ohio this week, at the request of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. The teams will help assess what dangers might remain in the community of about 5000 people. READ MORE: Police i...

Around 7pm on Saturday night, US President Joe Biden was out in Washington on a Valentine's week date-night, lingering over rigatoni with fennel sausage ragu before returning with his wife to the White House. The next time he was seen in public was 36 hours later, striding out of St Michael's Cathedral in Kyiv into a bright winter day, air raid sirens wailing a reminder of both the risks and reason for visiting Ukraine as it nears a second year of war. Cloaked in secrecy and weighted with history, Biden's trip was the work of months of planning by only a small handful of his senior-most aides, who recognised long ago the symbolic importance of visiting the Ukrainian capital a year after Russia tried to capture it. READ MORE: Police identify body of mum who vanished while...

A new 6.4 magnitude earthquake on Monday killed three people and injured more than 200 in parts of Turkey laid waste two weeks ago by a massive quake that killed tens of thousands, authorities said. More buildings collapsed, trapping some people, while scores of injuries were recorded in neighbouring Syria too. Monday's earthquake was centred in the town of Defne, in Turkey's Hatay province, one the worst-hit regions in the magnitude 7.8 quake that struck on February 6. READ MORE: Police identify body of missing British mother Nicola Bulley It was felt in Syria, Jordan, Cyprus, Israel and as far away as Egypt, and followed by a second, magnitude 5.8 temblor. Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said three people were killed and 213 injured. Search and ...

"I thought you were dead," Philip Barber said to his brother Chris when the pair were reunited for the first time on Thursday after floodwaters tore through their community in Esk Valley on New Zealand's North Island. The siblings live next to each other, and Philip could do nothing but sit and watch in horror as his brother's house was engulfed by water and silt in the early hours of Tuesday morning as Cyclone Gabrielle hit. While Philip made it onto his roof, Chris and his family were panicking inside their home as the waters rose rapidly around them. READ MORE: Cyclone Gabrielle is New Zealand's worst weather disaster 'in a generation' Brothers Philip and Chris Barber break down as they hug on Thursday, 48 hours after Chris and his family almost died when floodwate...