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| Swordsman kills one, wounds four at Swedish school |
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 "Four persons have been taken to the hospital from the school," said Niklas Claesson, head of communications at NAL hospital in the town of Trollhattan. "The assailant is being treated for gunshot wounds.
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| Hungary receives Austrian request to take over truck deaths case |
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 Hungarian prosecutors have received a request from Austria to take over the case of 71 migrants found dead in a lorry on an Austrian road in August, the Chief Prosecutor's Office said on Thursday. Austrian authorities said earlier this month they wanted to transfer the case to Hungary, where four Bulgarians and an Afghan citizen are already in custody. While more than 3,000 people have drowned this year while attempting to cross to Europe by sea, the case highlighted the dangers migrants face in their onward journeys by land as they try to make their way to affluent countries like Germany.
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| Golf and gluttony in the rough as China tees off against graft |
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| BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party has listed golf and gluttony as violations for the first time as it tightens its rules to prevent officials from engaging in corrupt practices, while also turning an even sterner eye on sexual impropriety. Chinese President Xi Jinping has been driving a sweeping crackdown on deep-rooted graft since taking over the party's leadership in late 2012. The new rules update existing regulations and are designed to better codify what constitutes a violation of discipline, the official Xinhua news agency reported late on Wednesday. |
| Philippines says handing China suspects in diplomats' shooting |
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 By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines said on Thursday two Chinese diplomats suspected of killing two colleagues will be granted diplomatic immunity and handed over to Chinese authorities, following a bizarre restaurant shooting in the central Philippines. The husband of a Chinese woman working at a Chinese consulate in the central city of Cebu shot dead the deputy consul general and a senior staff member during a birthday lunch at the restaurant on Wednesday, police have said. Li Hui, a female finance officer at the consulate, was shot in the head and also died.
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| Palestinians keep up attacks in Israel as Kerry seeks to calm violence |
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 By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police said they shot dead a Palestinian and wounded another on Thursday after the two stabbed a Jewish seminary student near Jerusalem on Thursday, as diplomatic efforts to calm three weeks of violence intensified. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met for talks in Berlin, where the Israeli leader is on an official visit. A State Department spokesman said Kerry was seeking practical ways to stem the bloodshed.
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