Gunman had history of mental problems
BLACKSBURG, Va.(Reuters): The gunman who went on a deadly rampage at Virginia Tech university had been accused of stalking women students and was taken to a mental health facility in 2005 because of worries he was suicidal, police said yesterday.
FRANCE - Presidential candidates try to win undecided
PARIS (AP): France's presidential candidates are getting nervous. With just four days to go until the election, the race is too close to call. So they're saying anything that might win over undecided voters. The candidates are trying to be all things to all people.
Separate toilets for Afghans at NATO airfield - newspaper
Afghan nationals who work at NATO's Kandahar Airfield must use their own 'separate but equal' toilet facilities, according to a March dispatch in Toronto's Globe & Mail newspaper. The American officer in charge of administrative contracts said the policy was based on hygiene....
Car bombs kill 200 after PM's pledge
BAGHDAD (Reuters): Car bombs killed more than 200 people in Baghdad yesterday in the deadliest attacks in the city since U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a security crackdown aimed at halting the country's slide into civil war.
Three killed in attack on Bible publishing house
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP):Assailants killed three people yesterday at a publishing house that distributed Bibles, in the latest attack apparently targeting Turkey's small Christian minority. The three victims were found with their throats slit and their...
Key gas installations under guard
VILLAMONTES, Bolivia (AP): President Evo Morales has sent troops to guard key southern gas installations after violent protests erupted in a struggle between rival provinces for control of a valuable natural gas field, leaving one person dead and 20...
Egypt, Jordan to push Arab peace plan
CAIRO (Reuters):Arab foreign ministers asked Egypt and Jordan yesterday to contact Israelis and try to persuade them to accept an Arab peace plan offering normal relations in return for land and a Palestinian state.Egypt and Jordan already have...
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