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| Gunman in Oregon massacre was turned away from firearms academy |
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 By Eric M. Johnson and Emily Flitter ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) - The gunman slain by police after he killed his English professor and eight others at an Oregon college was once turned away from a firearms academy by an instructor who recalled finding him "weird" and "a little bit too anxious" for high-level weapons training. Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26, who moved to Oregon from the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance, California, was officially identified on Friday as the assailant in the rampage at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, which ranks as the deadliest among dozens of U.S. mass shootings in the past two years.
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| At least nine killed in U.S. air strike on Afghan hospital |
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| By Hamid Shalizi and Andrew MacAskill KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike hit a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, killing at least nine people in what the U.S. military called possible "collateral damage" in the battle to oust Taliban insurgents. The bombing continued for 30 minutes after staff raised the alarm to U.S. and Afghan military officials, the aid group said. At least 37 people were wounded and many are still missing after the bombing, which will renew concerns over the use of U.S. air power in the conflict in America's longest war. |
| Platini called French sports ministry to insist he's clean |
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 UEFA president Michel Platini, freshly embroiled in the FIFA scandal over a 1.8-million euro payment he received from president Sepp Blatter, called the French sports ministry to insist he had done nothing wrong. "He has the feeling he is clean and he wanted to say it to me again," Secretary of State Thierry Braillard told French sports daily L'Equipe on Saturday. Blatter is under criminal investigation by Swiss authorities but remains in office ahead of a scheduled February election.
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| MSF says gave location of bombed-out hospital to Afghan, U.S. forces |
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| NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres on Saturday said it gave the coordinates of the Afghan hospital hit by an airstrike that killed at least nine people to Afghan and U.S. forces several times, to avoid being caught in crossfire."Precise location of our Kunduz hospital communicated to all parties on multiple occasions over past months," as well as earlier this week, the group said in a message on social media website Twitter. (Reporting by Andrew MacAskill; Editing by Clarence Fernandez) |
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