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MOSCOW At least 38 people were killed as an Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) flight traveling from the country's capital Baku to Russia crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau on Wednesday. Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbayev said during a news conference in Aktau that 38 people were killed in the crash, while 29 others were rescued. According to a statement by AZAL on Telegram, 62 passengers and five crew members were on board the aircraft, which crashed about 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) from