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UK tourist shot dead in Texas bar
(Mr Reeve, pictured with his baby daughter, died in hospital)
A British tourist has been shot dead in a bar in the United States.
Thomas Reeve was killed when a man entered the bar in Amarillo, Texas, and opened fire, says a local report.
A 48-year-old man was shot in the hand and a woman sexually assaulted, says the report. A 25-year-old man has been arrested by police, it adds. Mr Reeve's parents said: "He was just in the wrong place, at the wrong time." The 28-year-old, of Maidenhead, Berkshire, had a young daughter.
A family statement said: "Tom was a much loved son, brother and father who will be missed by the whole family and very many friends."
He had only visited the city where he died "because he liked the song" (Is This The Way To) Amarillo by Tony Christie, relatives said. The family is being provided with assistance by the Foreign Office consulate.
Mr Reeve had been driving through America with two friends.
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25 minutes ago · AFP - Secret police agents abducted and beat award-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez, whose online reports chronicle the dark side of everyday life in communist Cuba, on her way to a march for non-violence, she said Saturday.
Three agents in street clothes snatched her and friend Orlando Luis Pardo off the street in the Havana district of Vedado.
"They beat me and then they shoved me into a car head first. They did not give me any explanation at any time, but it is clear their goal was to stop
41 minutes ago · Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush today abruptly pulled out of a joint appearance scheduled for this winter in Los Angeles after growing unhappy with the way the event was being promoted.
The two canceled a similar appearance in New York City this week.
"We canceled the event because of a violation of contract and a promoter who insisted on billing it as something it wasn't," said Matt McKenna, a spokesman for Clinton. David Sherzer, a spokesman for Bush, also confirmed th
53 minutes ago · The Mounties have arrested a 37-year-old Rwandan immigrant and charged him with war crimes related to the 1994 genocide in his home country.
Investigators on Friday picked up Jacques Mungwarere, who's been living in Windsor, Ont. He made a brief court appearance on Saturday in Ottawa, where he was remanded in custody and his case held over until Thursday.
In a statement, the RCMP's war crimes section said the investigation began more than six years ago after they received a complaint from
1 hour ago · Truck Carrying Flu Vaccine Supply Is Stolen
By MONICA DAVEY
Published: November 6, 2009
CHICAGO — The swine flu vaccine has become a coveted commodity all over the country, but someone in Milwaukee appeared at first glance to carry the notion to a new level this week, stealing off in a refrigerated truck that was hauling 930 of the prized doses.
The doses were being returned to Milwaukee’s main storage facility on Thursday evening after a public vaccination clinic when one or more peop
2 hours ago · The ship partially forged from 7.5 tons of steel from the World Trade Center site officially became part of the Navy fleet today.
The commissioning ceremony for the USS New York on Manhattan's West Side began with a moment of silence for the victims of Thursday's shooting at Fort Hood, Texas and the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg helped set the first watch on the ship, while Governor David Paterson and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani attended.
Secretary of State H
2 hours ago · Group of 20 governments split on whether to tax financial trading as part of a broader strategy to ensure the global economy’s expansion is less crisis-prone. U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown told a meeting of finance chiefs in St. Andrews, Scotland today that such a levy could prevent excessive risk taking and fund future bank rescues, adding momentum to a debate begun by France. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said a “day-by-day” tax on speculation is “not something we’re prepared to
2 hours ago · FORT HOOD, Texas — Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, have visited wounded soldiers and their families after the mass shooting at Fort Hood.
The Bushes made their private visit to Fort Hood's Darnall Army Medical Center on Friday night. Bush spokesman David Sherzer said in an e-mail that the couple thanked Fort Hood's military leaders and hospital staff for the "amazing care they are providing."
An Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, is accused of killing 13 people
4 hours ago · iPhone For Verizon In 2010
By Dan Frommer
On 9:45 am EST, Saturday November 7, 2009
Apple will release a new iPhone next summer that works on Verizon Wireless as well as all global networks, a report claims, citing sources in the Taiwan supply chain.
The report, via AppleInsider, also says that the new iPhone will be smaller than the current iPhone, including a smaller screen. And that it will be manufactured for Apple by a different supplier, a subsidiary of netbook-maker Asustek.
4 hours ago · NATO airstrike mistakenly kills 7 Afghan soldiers and policemen, officials say
Afghan and international forces were pursuing Taliban insurgents when the accident occurred, Afghan officials say. Five U.S. troops were injured in clashes with militants.
By Alexandra Zavis
November 7, 2009 | 9:30 a.m.
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan - Afghan police and military officials said today that at least seven of their members were killed and 16 injured in a NATO airstrike that mistakenly targ
7 hours ago · A leading member of Iran's parliament has said that Tehran will turn down a deal that would compel it to hand over its low-enriched uranium for fuel for a nuclear reactor.
Alaeddin Borujerdi, the head of parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, has said "we do not want to give part of our 1,200kg of enriched uranium in order to receive fuel of 20 per cent enrichment".
"This option of giving our enriched uranium gradually or in one go is over now," he told the ISNA news
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Nov 06 · I am hearing that abortion and immigration are two of the issues that are holding up the vote on health care reform. They shouldn't be, they should be topics on which Democrats have firm stands. Yet now we hear about 40 House Democrats who want abortion payments stopped even in private insurance plans.
And I remember when
The candidates that were picked to run by the DCCC were very controlled about how to handle the issues. They were subjected to Rahm's view of the immigration issue, tha
Nov 07 · ...they call it jihad."
Muslims at Fort Voice Outrage and Ask Questions
By MICHAEL MOSS
Published: November 6, 2009
KILLEEN, Tex. — Leaders of the vibrant Muslim community here expressed outrage on Friday at the shooting rampage being laid to one of their members, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who had become a regular attendee of prayers at the local mosque. But some of the men who had befriended Major Hasan at the mosque said the military should examine the policies that might have caused hi
Nov 07 · Around the United States, peace groups are engaged in effective campaigns against proposed new military installations, local funding of weapons companies, and the routine destruction of the environment and of workers' health by such companies. Activists are building better media outlets, educating young people, educating old people, keeping military testing and recruiting out of schools, and discouraging the Army from building real-weapon video arcades in shopping malls. But when it comes to s
Nov 06 · This is the charter school system that has received 11 million dollars this year from Arne Duncan's Race to the Top stimulus money. More on the email sent by Dennis Bakke, the CEO below, but first a look at all the money they are getting.
From Schools Matter:
Sylvia Smith, the Journal Gazette's Washington editor, has been doing a little digging of her own. Dennis Bakke, who has the lead role in the investigative piece reported below by Soderland and Stockman is getting fabulously wea
Nov 06 ·
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Nov 06 · I will explain that silly subtitle in a moment, but first we've got to delve even deeper into rampant silliness. If such silliness and unseriousness does not appeal to you, then I strongly suggest you skip down and begin reading with this week's Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award. Consider yourselves warned.
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Nov 06 · Iam having a civil discussion with you
WATCH THIS VIDEO BEFORE YOU READ THIS and KNOW THE TRUTH!!!:
John Stewart is now as smart as Steven Colbert and figured it all out for Glenn:
Then:
You try to MAKE FUN of the Gleen Beck
show with your LIBERAL MAINSTREAM MEDIA bias,,,
well we know THE TRUTH!
about Glenn's appendix
and his Hemmoroids
The doctor's schools don't teach the truth.
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The liberal powers that be don't
Nov 06 · I heard about Fort Hood this morning on the radio. One thinks first, of course, about how horrible this is for the victims, for the families of the shooter and the killed and wounded alike. I know there are people here who have family in the military who might be at Fort Hood right now and I am hoping for your sake that they are all OK.
Initially the thing that most surprised me about the story was that the shooter was a psychiatrist. I know it's a cliche that psychiatrists are themselves su
Nov 05 ·
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 05: A man who collapsed during a rally protesting the health care bill on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol is cared for by paramedics from the Office of the Attending Physician November 5, 2009 in Washington, DC. Thousands of people and most Republican members of the House of Representatives attended the rally to voice their opposition to the House version of the health care reform legislation moving through Congress.
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 05: A man who collapsed
Nov 05 · A change in Louisiana law last year is forcing local school systems to pay for many new charter schools whether they like them or not. The battles are heating up in many states as public schools see their money disappearing.
School superintendents are starting to fight back. Last month, superintendents flooded the state with letters of complaint directed at three proposals to create strictly online charter schools that in two cases would draw students from all over Louisiana. The superi
Nov 04 ·
Reid is saying no bill before next year.
I am sorry, but that isn't much of a heartbreak. The legislation is horrible. In a nutshell, it mandates citizens to buy overpriced and non-comprehensive insurance from the private corporations that broke the health care system. TENS of millions will be without ANY insurance. Tens of millions more will be unable to afford anything but catastrophic coverage which hardly covers anything, even in the case of a catastrophe. Millions will pay a pen
Nov 04 · MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show - 3 November 2009: "Fringe and Purge" segment. Dick Armey embraces town hall disrupter.
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MADDOW: "The reason that sort of thing happened in so many different townhall meetings during the month of August all around the country is, in part, because those things were not spontaneous. Organizing memos were circulated ahead of the health care town hall events. One of them was authored by a Connecticut man named Bob McGuffie. His memo, which was called 'Barac
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