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| U.S. military air strike may have hit MSF hospital in Afghan city | | | By Andrew MacAskill KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S air strike may have hit a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a NATO forces spokesman said, after the medical aid group blamed an aerial attack for the destruction in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz that killed three staff.Fighting has raged around the Afghan provincial capital, recaptured by government forces this week from Taliban militants who had seized it in the biggest victory of their nearly 14-year insurgency. U.S. forces launched an air strike in the city at 2:15 a.m. (2145 GMT), the spokesman, Col. Brian Tribus, said in a statement on Saturday. "This incident is under investigation."MSF said 30 of its staff were still missing after the partial destruction of its trauma centre, hit several times in sustained bombing that the group called an "aerial attack"."We are deeply shocked by the attack, the killing of our staff and patients and the heavy toll it has inflicted on healthcare in Kunduz," the aid group's operations director, Bart Janssens, said in a statement.Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said U.S. air strikes targeted the hospital and had killed patients, doctors and nurses. |
| Oregon gunman enrolled at college he attacked in deadly rampage | |  By Eric M. Johnson and Courtney Sherwood ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) - A heavily armed gunman who shot to death an English professor and eight others in an Oregon community college classroom was identified on Friday as a student in the class who previously had been turned away from a private firearms training academy. A day after a rampage at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg that ended with 10 dead, including the gunman, and nine wounded, authorities sought a motive for the bloodiest U.S. mass shooting among the dozens reported over the past two years. As further details of the Roseburg shooting emerged, a former girlfriend of one of the wounded survivors, a U.S. military veteran, revealed that his heroism in confronting the shooter may have saved others from being killed.
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| Bush draws Democratic criticism for 'stuff happens' comment | |  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said on Friday more government is not always the answer for Americans when crises erupt and "stuff happens," a remark that Democrats charged was a callous response to victims of gun violence a day after an Oregon mass shooting. At a conservative forum in South Carolina, Bush was asked a rambling question by moderator Alan Wilson, the state's attorney general. Wilson pressed him on whether there should be more prayer vigils at schools and other institutions to prevent tragedies such as when someone "with an Uzi or a handgun" shoots "a bunch of people." Wilson did not mention the Oregon shootings a day earlier in which nine people were killed.
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| Massachusetts priest who admitted child rape to be released from prison | | | By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - A former Massachusetts priest who figured prominently in the Roman Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal and pleaded guilty in 2002 to raping a child will be released from prison after prosecutors dropped their effort on Friday to send him to a state facility for sexual predators. Ronald Paquin, who was defrocked in 2004, was one of the first arrested amid revelations that members of the Catholic clergy had sexually assaulted children and that bishops had covered it up. Paquin, who had served in Haverhill, pleaded guilty to three counts of raping a child, beginning in 1989 when the child was 12 years old. |
| After Oregon, gun control could give Clinton clout against Sanders | |  By James Oliphant and Amanda Becker WASHINGTON/DAVIE, Florida (Reuters) - The Oregon shooting rampage has reignited gun control as an issue in the Democratic presidential race, potentially handing front-runner Hillary Clinton an issue she can use to sway progressives away from challenger Bernie Sanders. Clinton spoke out forcefully in favor of new gun control measures immediately after Thursday's shooting by a lone gunman on the campus of Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, which killed nine people and wounded another nine. Sanders, who has been dogged by criticism from gun-control groups since almost the moment he entered the race, defended his record on Thursday while speaking in much more measured terms on what kind of gun control is needed.
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| In an Oregon gun shop, President Obama's message does not sit well | |  By Emily Flitter ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) - The first thing customers entering the Roseburg Gun Shop see is a life-sized cardboard cutout of President Barack Obama with a Middle Eastern scarf around his head and a badge pinned to his chest that reads: "Gun salesman of the year." The customers and sales staff in this store, located 10 miles (16 km) from Umpqua Community College, where a gunman killed nine people and injured nine others on Thursday, said they were horrified by the shootings. On Friday, as customers browsed in the store, many of them preparing for the start of deer hunting season on Saturday, talk was focused on Obama's call the previous evening for stricter gun laws. Don Sheldon, 52, a police officer in the town of Winston, which borders Roseburg to the south, said that when he pulls people over and learns they have a concealed carry permit, he thanks them.
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| Volkswagen suspends Australian sales of some diesel vehicles | |  Volkswagen AG said on Saturday it was suspending sales of some diesel vehicles in Australia that may have been fitted with devices designed to mask the level of emissions. The announcement came after Volkswagen Australia met with the Australian government and consumer authorities on Friday to discuss the automakers' plans to deal with the issue. "In its first step, effective immediately (Volkswagen Group Australia) has temporarily suspended the sale of affected vehicles fitted with 1.6 or 2.0-litre EA189 diesel engines," Volkswagen said in a statement.
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| Australian officials say Sydney police HQ shooting "linked to terrorism" | |  By Lincoln Feast SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police said on Saturday they believed the shooting of a police worker by a 15-year-old boy in Sydney the previous day was "linked to terrorism", the latest in a series of attacks blamed on radicalised youth. Australia, a staunch ally of the United States and its battle against Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria, has been on heightened alert for attacks by home-grown radicals since last year. The teenager was shot dead by police on Friday afternoon after he gunned down, at close range, a police employee leaving the headquarters of the New South Wales Police, police and witnesses said.
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| Australian PM urges unity after Sydney police shooting | | | Australians must not vilify the Muslim community, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urged on Saturday, after a 15-year-old boy of Middle Eastern background was identified as the gunman who shot a police worker in Sydney the previous day. "This appears to have been an act of politically motivated violence, so at this stage it appears to have been an act of terrorism," Turnbull told reporters in Melbourne. "We must not vilify or blame the entire Muslim community for the actions of what is, in truth, a very, very small percentage of violent extremist individuals." The gunman, identified as a 15-year-old of Iraqi-Kurdish background born in Iran, was shot dead by police after gunning down a worker at close range as he was leaving the headquarters of the New South Wales Police, police and witnesses said. |
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