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The Student News Site of Westfield High School

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The Student News Site of Westfield High School

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World news briefs 10/4

– D.C. Navy yard shooting on Sept. 16 left 13 dead, including shooter Aaron Alexis, a former Navy reservist, according tousatoday.com. Alexis had been exhibiting strange behavior and hearing voices the month prior to the shooting according to cnn.com.
– Explosion kills at least 17 people and wounds more than 30 others on a bus carrying government employees in Pakistan on Sept. 27 according to cnn.com.
– Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced democratic reforms promoting Kurdish rights and other personal freedoms on Sept. 30 according to bbc.co.uk.
– Car bomb kills at least 30 people leaving Friday prayers in Syria according to nytimes.com.
– The President of Colombia rejected the involvement of U.S. Civil Rights Activist Jesse Jackson in the release of Kevin Scott Sutay, a former U.S. Marine kidnapped by FARC rebels according to nbcnews.com.
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