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| Gunman kills nine at Oregon college, dies in shootout with police | | Friday, October 02, 2015 3:49 AM | |
|  By Courtney Sherwood and Eric M. Johnson ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) - A gunman burst into a community college in southwest Oregon on Thursday and opened fire, killing nine people and wounding seven others before police shot him to death, authorities said, in the latest mass killing in America. The suspect, who witnesses say fired dozens of shots into a classroom full of screaming students, was then slain in an exchange of gunfire with police in Snyder Hall at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg following the rampage shortly after 10:30 a.m. local time (1730 GMT).
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| Burkina Faso coup leader handed over to government - sources | | Friday, October 02, 2015 3:38 AM | |
|  By Mathieu Bonkoungou and Nadoun Coulibaly OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - The leader of a short-lived coup in Burkina Faso, General Gilbert Diendere, was handed over to authorities on Thursday after seeking refuge in the Vatican embassy, sources in the transitional government said on Thursday. Diendere, a former spy chief, was at the head of a week-long power-grab by Burkina Faso's powerful presidential guard last month, during which the interim president and prime minister were held hostage. "He has been handed over to Burkinabe authorities," said a judicial source close to the transitional government.
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| U.S. lawmakers push measures to influence Iran nuclear deal | | Friday, October 02, 2015 3:35 AM | |
| | By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two weeks after efforts to kill the Iran nuclear deal failed in the U.S. Congress, lawmakers were still developing legislation on Thursday seeking to influence, or undermine, the international agreement. The House of Representatives voted 251 to 173 on Thursday for a measure that would bar President Barack Obama from waiving any sanctions on Iran under the pact until $40 billion has been paid to Americans deemed to be victims of Iranian-backed terrorism. The measure passed the Republican-led House largely along party lines, with Republicans in favor and Obama's fellow Democrats opposed. |
| Marijuana coming next year to your local pharmacy - in Uruguay | | Friday, October 02, 2015 3:24 AM | |
| | By Malena Castaldi MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Marijuana pioneer Uruguay said on Thursday it had granted licenses to two companies to grow the plant for commercial distribution, adding that the pot should go on sale in pharmacies next year. The South American country was the world's first to legalize the cultivation and distribution of marijuana, aiming to wrest control of the trade from drug gangs while regulating and even taxing its consumption. "Twenty-two proposals were presented ... and two licenses for production and distribution were given out," Juan Andrés Roballo, head of the National Drug Board, told a news conference. |
| L.A. prosecutors reviewing evidence against Bill Cosby | | Friday, October 02, 2015 3:22 AM | |
|  By Daina Beth Solomon LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles prosecutors are reviewing sexual assault evidence against Bill Cosby, a county official said Thursday, pushing forward a case that could result in the first criminal charges against the comedian. Model Chloe Goins, 24, brought allegations to Los Angeles police that Cosby had drugged and assaulted her in 2008 when she was aged 18, at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles. Los Angeles County District Attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison said the sex crimes division is reviewing the material handed over Wednesday by detectives who were investigating Goins's case.
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| After shooting, angry Obama blasts U.S. gun politics | | Friday, October 02, 2015 3:03 AM | |
|  By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday angrily said America had made a "political choice" to allow mass shootings like the one in Oregon to occur and blasted the National Rifle Association lobby group for blocking reform of U.S. gun laws. Appearing in the White House briefing room with a grim expression and a frustrated tone, Obama challenged U.S. voters of all political stripes to hold their leaders accountable if they wanted to prevent such tragedies from happening again. "This is a political choice that we make, to allow this to happen every few months in America," Obama told reporters after the latest shooting at a community college in which nine people were killed before police fatally shot the gunman.
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| Factbox: Major shooting incidents in the United States | | Friday, October 02, 2015 2:54 AM | |
| | Below are some of the worst shooting incidents in recent years, ranked by the number of dead: Virginia Tech April 16, 2007 - A gunman slaughters 32 people and himself at Virginia Tech, a university in Blacksburg, Virginia. Columbine April 20, 1999 - Two heavily armed teenagers go on a rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, shooting 12 students and a teacher and wounding more than 20 others before taking their own lives. Colorado movie theater July 20, 2012 - A masked gunman kills 12 people and wounds 70 when he opens fire on moviegoers at a midnight premiere of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, a Denver suburb. |
| VW says emission scandal investigations to take months | |  By Andreas Cremer BERLIN (Reuters) - Volkswagen said on Thursday it would take longer than expected to investigate its rigging of vehicle emissions tests, raising the prospect of months of uncertainty for customers, shareholders and staff. After a seven-hour meeting late on Wednesday, the German carmaker's supervisory board said it would take "at least several months" to complete investigations, including an external inquiry by U.S. law firm Jones Day. Europe's largest carmaker has admitted cheating in diesel emissions tests in the United States and Germany's transport minister says it also manipulated them in Europe, where Volkswagen sells about 40 percent of its vehicles.
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| Gunman opens fire at Oregon college in mass killing | | (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire on Thursday at a community college in Oregon, killing 13 people and wounding some 20 others before he was shot to death by police, in the latest mass killing to rock a U.S. school, state and county officials said. There were conflicting reports on the number of dead and wounded in the shooting rampage at Umpqua Community College, which began shortly after 10:30 a.m. local time (1730 GMT). The office of Ellen Rosenblum did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
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| Difficult to buy a gun in China, but not explosives | |  By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - A series of deadly bomb blasts in China this week has shown how easy it is to acquire explosives in the country, revealing a major gap in its huge security apparatus as the economy slows and anger grows over issues like graft and poor public services. In a country where firearms are banned for most people, the bombings in the southwestern city of Liuzhou on Wednesday, and others in recent years around the country, demonstrate lax enforcement of rules to control access to bomb-making material. Private gun ownership is almost unheard of in China as controls are so strict, meaning gun crime is rare.
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| Rising Rakhine party looming threat to Myanmar's Muslim minority | |  By Timothy Mclaughlin SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar's historic elections next month are likely to worsen the plight of the country's oppressed Rohingya Muslim community, with a new, hardline Buddhist party on the brink of becoming a formidable force The empowerment of ethnic nationalists in Rakhine State at the western edge of the Southeast Asian nation could intensify discrimination of the stateless Rohingya, thousands of whom have fled in recent years to neighbouring countries. The government has barred most Rohingyas from both voting and registering as candidates, drawing sharp criticism from the United Nations and undermining Myanmar's efforts to portray the Nov. 8 poll as its first free and fair election in 25 years. The Arakan National Party (ANP), an organisation of ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, was formed last year.
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| Germany wants migrants with no hope of asylum to be turned away at border | |  German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere wants to turn away migrants at the border if they clearly have no chance of gaining asylum, a regional newspaper reported, citing a draft bill from his ministry. Passauer Neue Presse cited the draft bill as saying that like at airports, transit zones should be set up at land border crossings so that the asylum process can be carried out before a decision is made on whether migrants can enter Germany or not. "That should create the possibility to deny entry at land borders as well in cases of inadmissibility or where an asylum application is clearly unfounded," the newspaper cited the draft bill as saying.
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