Subject: University leader requests leave amid lawsuit

From: "John Hogan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:59:04 +0800

A police officer and the woman's lawyer also were injured, but not seriously, police said.Unidentified relatives of the gunman's victims console one another outside the courtroom.Eurostar has advised its customers to avoid all travel on Thursday and it has cancelled some of its trains on Thursday and Friday.The ANSA news agency identified the man as Klirim Fejzo, his wife as Vyosa Demcolli and her brother as Arjan Demcolli, all Albanians.Trains across France and the Metro -- Paris's subway system -- are expected to come to a halt starting Wednesday night, Ricard said.The man and his wife were attending a court hearing in Reggio Emilia as part of separation proceedings when he pulled out a gun and pointed it at his wife and her brother, then started shooting randomly, police said.Vladimir Putin's visit was the first by a Kremlin leader to Iran since 1943.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all government matters, said Iran will give Putin's proposal serious thought before giving a response, the news agency said.Khamenei told Putin that Iran is serious about continuing uranium enrichment in turn but wants to avoid adventurism and cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the news agency said.Police were investigating how the man managed to take a weapon into the courtroom in Reggio Emilia, a city about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Bologna. "He was shooting like crazy at everybody," officer Antonio Turi said.The five permanent U.N. Security Council members, plus Germany, have been working together to try to find a way to get Iran to abandon its uranium enrichment program. The U.S. and some allies allege that the program is cover for a weapons program. Iran says it is intended purely for peaceful energy production.The wife was taken to a hospital, where she was declared clinically dead, Italian media reported. Her brother died at the scene.ROME, Italy (AP) -- A man opened fire in a courtroom in northern Italy on Wednesday, seriously wounding his estranged wife and killing her brother before being shot to death by police, officials said.About 80,000 rugby fans are expected to attend Saturday's World Cup final between England and South Africa.Railway workers will join bus, power, gas and some state employees for the action called after President Nicolas Sarkozy refused to back down over planned pension reforms, according to Monique Ricard, spokeswoman for the French railway SNCF.