U.S. soldier killed in Fort Bragg shooting

In the wake of the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, an emergency room doctor says he's has seen enough and is pleading for a safer America.

A shooting in southern Switzerland has left three women dead, two men wounded and raised questions about how a troubled suspect was able to go on a rampage with an old military rifle. The suspect, a 33-year-old unemployed man living on welfare, fired about 20 shots Wednesday night in Daillon, a village in the canton of Valais. He opened fire from his apartment and pursued people in the street, police said Thursday. Armed with a Swiss military rifle and a handgun, he then threatened to shoot the officers sent in to stop him.

The army psychiatrist accused of a shooting rampage last week at the Fort Hood military base in Texas will face 13 charges of premeditated murder, US media reported Thursday.The charges against Major Nidal Hasan, who is to face legal proceedings in in a military court, were expected to be announced around 1800 GMT at the Texas army base, US networks said.Hasan, 39, has been hospitalized since sustaining gunshot wounds and has declined to talk to investigators, his lawyer said.The dead included 12 soldiers and one civilian, while 42 people were also wounded.

In an effort to avoid the death penalty, a U.S. Army sergeant pled guilty Monday to the 2009 murders of five of his fellow servicemen while serving in Iraq, Reuters reports.

A Yemeni soldier was killed and four other people wounded on Thursday in an attack on a military vehicle in the southern province of Daleh that provincial officials blamed on separatist militants.Members of the separatist "movement destroyed a military vehicle in the Al-Malah district of Daleh. One soldier was killed and four other people wounded, among them soldiers," one provincial official told AFP.

The Israeli military is considering bringing charges against a soldier suspected of shooting dead two women who were waving white flags during the Gaza war, the army said on Wednesday.If charges are filed, it would be the first prosecution of an Israeli soldier for killing civilians during the 22-day war, which was launched in December 2008 and killed around 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.

The Israeli military is considering bringing charges against a soldier suspected of shooting dead two women who were waving white flags during the Gaza war, the army said on Wednesday.If charges are filed, it would be the first prosecution of an Israeli soldier for killing civilians during the 22-day war, which was launched in December 2008 and killed around 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.

A US soldier was sentenced to nine months in prison after pleading guilty to shooting at Afghan civilians.Staff Sergeant Robert Stevens, 25, also was demoted to the rank of private but was spared discharge from the military under the sentence handed down in the first court martial linked to a rogue army unit alleged to have killed Afghans for sport.Stevens pleaded guilty to four of the five charges against him, including shooting "in the direction of" men he knew to be civilians rather than enemy fighters.