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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's nominee to be secretary of the Navy, oil executive Colin McMillan, died on Thursday of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, the New Mexico medical examiners offices said. McMillan, 67, died at his ranch in southern New Mexico. "The manner of death was suicide," said Tim Stepetic, associate director of New Mexico's Office of the Medical Investigator. "Mr. McMillan died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head." Scot Key, a state district attorney in Alamogordo, New Mexico, said his office was looking into reports that McMillan may have had a recurrence of cancer. A...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier died after he was shot while guarding Baghdad University on Sunday, the U.S. military said. U.S. Central Command in Florida said in a statement the soldier from the 1st Armored Division suffered a "hostile gunshot wound" and was evacuated to a nearby military hospital. He later died of his injuries. Students near the scene said the soldier had been inside the university campus in the southern part of the city when he was shot. A U.S. military helicopter evacuated the soldier and troops sealed off the campus, they said. One student, Abdullah Saad, said...

KENT, Wash. - Two young men died Sunday in an apparent murder-suicide in this south Seattle suburb, police said. Police called to an apartment building found the gunshot victims inside. One, about 21, was dead of a gunshot wound to the neck. The other, 19 years old, died later Sunday morning at Harborview Medical Center of a gunshot wound to the head that was apparently self-inflicted, police spokesman Paul Petersen said. Their names will not be released until Monday at the earliest, said a spokeswoman at the King County medical examiner's office. Three other young men at the scene were...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) — Three U.S. soldiers were injured in two separate incidents in eastern Afghanistan and B-52 bombers were called in to protect a U.S. base that came under rocket attack, a U.S. military spokesman said Thursday. Two U.S. Special Forces soldiers were treated for facial lacerations Wednesday after an explosive detonated under their vehicle 30 miles northeast of Jalalabad. A second device exploded without hurting anyone and a third was discovered unexploded. Another U.S. soldier was hit in the abdomen by a gunshot Wednesday at Kandahar Air Field. Col. Roger King, a spokesman for the U.S. military in...

Latest News Saturday, Oct 05, 2002 Korean-American Says He Targeted U.N. to Bring Attention to N.K. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New York, Oct. 4 (Yonhap) -- Steve Kim, the Korean-American arrested Thursday for firing seven shots into the air in front of the U.N. Headquarters compound, said he did it to bring international attention to the plight of the North Korean people. According to the local press, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report said Kim chose the United Nations as the site because he believed the United Nations is partially responsible for the suffering of North Korean citizens.

SAN DIEGO -- A vehicle carrying 23 illegal immigrants across the Mexico-U.S. border was shot at Friday, injuring eight men inside, authorities said. Three of the men were hospitalized in stable condition Friday with gunshot wounds. The sport utility vehicle was in a desert wash in northern Mexico when it was first attacked. It came under fire again after crossing into the United States, authorities said. Mexican and U.S. officials were investigating one man's claim that the shots may have come from a Mexican military unit, said Sgt. Manuel Garcia of the Imperial County Sheriff's Department. A spokesperson for the...