The gunman who killed 32 people at a U.S. university Monday, before killing himself, mailed a chilling video to a U.S. TV network during the massacre. The package was received by the NBC TV network from Virginia Tech student Cho Seung-Hui. VOA's David Dyar reports the package contained a rambling video in which the gunman engaged in an angry tirade about hedonism and rich kids along with several pictures of him holding guns.
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- Thursday, April 19, 2007
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By Michael Bowman
The deadly shooting spree at a Virginia university has sent a chill through America's large foreign student population and, according to experts, could affect foreign enrollment in U.S. colleges and universities for years to come
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- Wednesday, April 18, 2007
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At least 32 people were killed in Blacksburg, Virginia, when a gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech University Monday in the deadliest mass shooting rampage in the United States. The gunman, then took his own life, campus police chief Wendell Flinchum told reporters.
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- Monday, April 16, 2007
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SEOUL - A top U.S. nuclear envoy is urging North Korea to start shutting down its nuclear program, saying that a financial dispute that delayed the disarmament process has now been resolved.
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- Wednesday, April 11, 2007
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The Vatican - Pope Benedict XVI today marked Easter Sunday with a wide-ranging speech on conflicts and "natural calamities" around the world. "How many wounds, how much suffering there is in the world," the pontiff lamented during the traditional "Urbi et Orbi" ("to the city and the world") blessing from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica. "Natural calamities and human tragedies that cause innumerable victims and enormous material destruction are not lacking."
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- Sunday, April 8, 2007
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Teheran - Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad announced today in Tehran that the 15 British service personnel detained in the Persian Gulf on March 23 will be "pardoned" and released.
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- Wednesday, April 4, 2007
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DAMASCUS – US House speaker Nancy Pelosi was holding talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday on a two-day trip to Damascus that has infuriated the White House.
(Full Story)Source: middle-east-online.com
- Wednesday, April 4, 2007
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By Carolyn Weaver
In 1992, Somali-born feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali was forced by her family into an unwanted marriage. On her way to live with her new husband in Canada, she claimed political asylum in the Netherlands, and settled there, working as a cleaning lady, and later as an interpreter for asylum claimants and battered immigrant women. She also earned a master's degree in political science.
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- Saturday, March 24, 2007
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NEW YORK - Professor Charles Taylor, a Canadian philosopher who for nearly half a century has argued that problems such as violence and bigotry can only be solved by considering both their secular and spiritual dimensions, has won the 2007 Templeton Prize.
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- Thursday, March 15, 2007
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By Dan Thomas
PARIS, France – Fifty-eight countries represented at a high-level conference in Paris committed themselves on Tuesday, February 6, to stopping the unlawful recruitment and use of children in armed conflicts.
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- Wednesday, February 7, 2007
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