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No suspects in Diplomat's shooting
By Times Wires
Published January 3, 2008
KHARTOUM, Sudan Authorities questioned witnesses Wednesday in the killing of a U.S. diplomat shot as he returned from a New Year's Eve party in the Sudanese capital. The United States has sent its own investigators. John Granville, 33, with the U.S. Agency for International Development, was being driven home about 4 a.m. when a vehicle cut off his car and opened fire, the Sudanese Interior Ministry said. Sudanese officials say the shooting was not a terrorist attack, but the U.S. Embassy said it was too soon to know a motive. WHISTLER, British Columbia Avalanche at ski resort kills one An avalanche near one of Canada's most popular ski resorts swept two men off a cliff, killing one and seriously injuring the other, authorities said Wednesday. They said the men likely triggered the avalanche Tuesday when they entered a remote area marked "permanently closed." KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Official quits after sex tape surfaces Malaysia's health minister quit Wednesday after acknowledging that he and a female friend were in a secretly filmed sex video. A one-hour DVD circulated last week showed Health Minister Chua Soi Lek, 63, a married man with three children, having sex with the woman in a hotel.
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