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A US soldier shoots dead three colleagues before killing himself at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, the scene of a 2009 mass shooting.


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David Cameron says the problem with their EU debate was that his deputy Nick Clegg and UKIP leader Nigel Farage both have "extreme" views.

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