American Larry Colburn, who became famous for his actions during the Vietnam War, died earlier this month. He was 67 years old. Lisa Colburn, his wife of 31 years, told the Associated Press that Colburn died three months after they learned he had can

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A 23-year-old woman has shot dead two fellow students at a vocational college in Louisiana, and then turned the gun on herself. Another US campus shut down after shots have fired in a classroom. And as police moved into the Louisiana Technical Colle

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The jobs picture doesn't appear to be much better than it was a month ago, even though the unemployment rate has dropped to 8.1%. NPR's Dave Mattingly reports the decline is being attributed to more people giving up their job search. When those witho

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BBC News with Eileen McCue. Dutch political leaders are about to take part in a final televised debate ahead of Wednesdays general election. The two front runners in opinion polls are the center-right party of current Prime Minister Mark Rutte and th

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BBC News with Marian Marshal. German police have freed a man detained on suspicion of carrying out the deadly attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, saying they have insufficient evidence to link him to the crime. 12 people were killed and more than

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Rednet: Don't Promote Hatred When Watching Nanking, Nanking The highly anticipated historical epic film Nanking, Nanking, also known as A City of Life and Death, is now being shown in cinemas around China. When it recently premiered in eastern China

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Ross Dunn Israel's Army expressed sadness Wednesday for the killing of at least 10 Palestinians in southern Gaza. All the dead are reported to be under 18. More than 50 were wounded after an Israeli t

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Hague Tribunal Convicts Serb General Roger Wilkison Brussels 2 Aug 2001 16:41 UTC The International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague has convicted a former Bosnian Serb general of 1)genocide for his p

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Thousands of mourners, many of them Indian Americans from across North America, are in Wisconsin to pay tribute to the victims of last Sunday's attack at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek. Some people silently sobbed as the crowd slowly filed into a school

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美联社,新闻一分钟,1.New Orleans' mayor suspends reopening parts of the hurricane-ravaged city as Tropical Storm Rita threatens a new round of flooding. 2.Residents in the low-lying Florida Keys evacuate as Rita gathers

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1. Police are providing new details into the Virginia Tech massacre. Today they revealed that the gunman fired more than 170 rounds in nine minutes and shot himself in a classroom surrounded by victims. 2. Some residents of Spencer, Massachusetts ha

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Nick Simeone U.S. officials in Iraq says Wednesday's gruesome attacks on four American civilians whose burned bodies were put on display in the town of Fallujah will not go unpunished. The U.S. milita

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US Economy Faces Another Cliff The U.S. government has already reached the congressionaly imposed borrowing limit of $16.4 trillion and could run out of money by mid-February. New York trader Benedict Willis says the coming debate over raising the de

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This week's Middle East peace summit in Washington is setting a goal of one year to resolve what are known as final status issues -- the most intractable of Israeli-Palestinian problems. Among them is the right of return, which will determine the fat

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CAR Sectarian Violence Rising 中非宗派暴力上升 The human rights group Amnesty International says U.N. peacekeepers must take bold action to protect civilians in Central African Republic. It says theres an escalating wave of sectarian violence

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Chapter 28 - Why the battle had to be fought Many historians say that the French did not win the battle of Borodino because Napoleon had a cold, and that if he had not had a cold the orders he gave before and during the battle would have been still m

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One of the issues that arise every year on the anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender is whether a formal apology will be issued. Like past years, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to adhere to the road of peace and not repeat the

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September 16th, 1974President Gerald Ford announces a conditional amnesty program for deserters and draft evaders during the Vietnam War. I do not want to delay another day in resolving the dilemmas of the past, so that we may all get going on the pr

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September 5th, 1972They are all gone, the Israeli Olympic team is destroyed, much of it, some of them are officials. A massacre of the Summer Olympic Games in Munich in what's then West Germany. Palestinian guerrillas attack the Israeli Olympic team,

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The US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Moscow to do all it can to bring about the release of European military observers abducted in eastern Ukraine. In a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Mr. Kerry also expressed concern ab

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