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New York. Sen-Hui Cho had a lot of time after he first killed two people at around 7.00 a.m on April 16 in a dormitory of Virginia Tech. More than two hours went by before he chained the doors of Norris Hall and began shooting students and teachers, killing 30 more people before committing suicide. He had time to go to the post office in downtown Blacksburg mail a parcel with photos and videos to NBC, before Virginia Tech officials undertook any action to warn their students and teachers that two people had been killed on campus. The sent out their first email alert at 9.26 a.m, more than two hours after the first double murder and about twenty minutes before the blood bath inside Norris Hall. New York. Thomas Frischknecht (photo Frischknecht family) and Andrea Dalla Valle had both their hands and feet handcuffed when they climbed in the commercial aircraft on Friday August Friday 24 in Amsterdam. Their final destination was the detention center in Alexandria (VA), where they are currently being held according to information gathered by the.point.is. news agency. Both young men from Lausanne (Switzerland) were extradited from Holland after a lengthy legal battle. They are accused to have played a role in the shipment of a package containing 10,000 Ecstasy pills obtained in the Netherlands to the United States and may face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. Kingston. Trenchtown looks like a war zone eight days after the passage of hurricane Dean in Jamaica. Power lines are still down in this slum in Kingston, where Bob Marley grew up. People are trying to clear the debris from the middle of the streets. Last week, winds blowing at 230 km/h have destroyed a lot of the weaker structures in the neighborhood. «It’s ghetto man, says Clifford Bent, a 45-year old rasta man. We cannot rely on the government to help us. We have to do it ourselves». jean-cosme’s first photo set of the Trenchtown series. Montego Bay. The fight will be uneven. Jamaicans who could afford it, boarded up their houses on Saturday to face Dean, a monstruous category 4 storm. Others like Nelson, a man living in Orange Bay, on the western Coast of Jamaica, are forced to rely on their good fortune. « I have not boarded up my house, he says. There is nothing we can do. We can only wait and hope. Everything is going to be ok». New York. The list is long. US toymaker Mattel announced on Tuesday August 14 2007 that it would recall more than 18 million Chinese-made toys worldwide, including 9.5 million in the United States. Among them, girls will have to say goodbye to their new Barbie dolls whereas boys will have to live without their Batman figures and Sarge cars. The company blamed a Chinese subcontractor for using unauthorized lead paint and said that toys containing small magnets could be a potential hazard for children. New York. Barack Obama’s star is fading. Despite having raised more campaign money than Clinton from at least 258,000 individual donors, the Illinois Senator has had a rough two weeks since the CNN/YouTube debate on July 23 in South Carolina. That day he was asked whether he would “commit to meet with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea, without preconditions, within one year [of his election].” He answered he would and provided Hillary Clinton with a golden opportunity to label his answer as “irresponsible and frankly naive.” New York. 110 years in prison. On paper, the sentence of Pfc Jesse Spielman, a soldier convicted last week for his role in the rape and murder of a 14-year old Iraqi girl, looks like sentence to “death by incarceration”. But the soldier has the possibility of parole after 10 years behind bars. “We had concluded a pre-trial agreement with the military prosecutor, Daniel Christensen, Pfc Spielman’s civilian lawyer said in an interview with the.point.is. news agency from his office in Austin. We agreed to testify against Steven Green [the alleged ringleader]. In the military system, if you have not been convicted to life without parole, you are eligible for parole after 10 years”. New York. The piece of information Nicolas Sarkozy gave to reporters on Sunday morning in Wolfeboro (NH), was quickly confirmed by two U.S photographers. The French president’s English is bad. The two photographers, who were following Mr Sarkozy on a boat Sunday afternoon were quickly reminded that you don not mess with a French president on vacation. Mr Sarkozy lost his temper when he spotted Associated Press photographer Jim Cole and freelancer Vince DeWitt. He jumped onto their boat and scolding them loudly in French. New York. “The body was so mingled. I hope I will never see that again”. On the phone, Tony Webster recalled the woman he saw on Wednesday night August 1 after the Interstate highway bridge in downtown Minneapolis collapsed and dropped into the Mississippi River. The student at nearby University of Minnesota rushed to the scene when he saw the smoke coming off the bridge. Mr Webster, 20, spoke about the cars he saw in the water and the people standing on pieces of concrete. |
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