
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Saturday sought to reassure the US public in the wake of a deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, saying the response to the tragedy displayed "the best of America."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, will attend a memorial service in Fort Hood, Texas, on Tuesday for victims of a mass shooting.

BERLIN (Reuters) - As Germany prepares to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new study shows that some 1.3 trillion euros ($1.9 trillion) have been transferred from the west to rebuild the east, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arab and Muslim Americans on Friday braced for the possibility of verbal or physical attacks after an Army psychiatrist of Arab descent allegedly killed 13 during a shooting rampage at a military base in Texas.
OTTAWA - The Mounties have arrested a 37-year-old Rwandan immigrant and charged him with war crimes related to the 1994 genocide.
LONDON (Reuters) - A British man on the run from police sent a picture of himself to his local paper because he disliked the mugshot they had printed of him as part of a public appeal to track him down.
QUEBEC - The disintegration of the once-mighty Action democratique du Quebec gathered speed with the sudden resignation Friday of one-third of what remains of its rump of a caucus.

Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, will spend four days in B.C. starting Friday as part of their 11-day cross-Canada tour, and with rain in the forecast, they will likely get a real West Coast experience.
LONDON - Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Afghanistan's government on Friday to take action against corruption, saying he would not risk more British lives there unless it reforms.

TORONTO - Canadians are becoming less and less ambivalent about the prospect of the H1N1 vaccine, and a majority of people either plan to roll up their sleeve or have done so already, a new poll suggests.
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