What recent shooting incident occurred at Brown University?
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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Officials in Providence, Rhode Island say they're releasing the person of interest who was detained in connection with Saturday's shooting at Brown University. Mayor Brett Smiley made the announcement less than an hour ago and offered reassurance to residents.
We know that this is likely to cause fresh anxiety for our community. And we want to reiterate what we said earlier, which remains true, which is ever since the initial call, now a day and a half ago, we have not received any credible or specific threats to the Providence community.
Police say it's been a very complex investigation into the shooting. Two students were killed when a man entered an engineering building on the school's campus and opened fire. Nine others were injured. A debate over gun loss in Australia is beginning following another shooting, this one on Sydney's Bondi Beach this weekend, that left at least 15 people dead and dozens more injured.
Phil Mercer is a journalist in Sydney. He says the situation during the shooting was chaotic.
Well, witnesses we've spoken to have described losing dear friends and how the shots that rang out at Australia's most famous beach seem to go on, as they say, for an eternity. And quite clearly, this is a nation suffering immense trauma. The mass shooting of Bondi Beach is Australia's worst shooting atrocity in almost 30 years.
The attack took place during the Hanukkah celebration. and officials are calling it a targeted attack on Jewish Australians. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Sunday signaled that Kyiv is willing to give up ambitions to join NATO. His comments came ahead of talks with U.S. envoys and European leaders in Berlin.
But as Esme Nicholson reports, Zelensky is still refusing to cede eastern Ukraine to Moscow.
Responding to reporters via WhatsApp on Sunday, Zelensky acknowledged that Ukraine's NATO membership bid is not supported by all members of the alliance and proposed a number of bilateral Article 5-like security guarantees instead. The compromise comes as talks get underway in Berlin to fine-tune the 20-point plan brokered by the US to reach a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
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