THE tragedy at Kauhajoki, following on so closely to that at Jokela, has caused Finnish authorites to look more closely at country's childcare structure. A report just two months ago by the Mannerhein Child...
One day after a horrific shooting in a school in Finland, the prime minister has said he wants to push for stricter gun laws as the victims are beginning to be identified.Today is also a day of mourning for Finland,...
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WARPED Michelle Cossey, 46, was today found guilty of supplying her bullied son, Dillon Cossey, 14, with lethal weapons. The boy from Pennsylvannia had fantasies of re-enacting the Columbine massacres after...
The political crisis in Latin America has intensified, with Bolivian president Evo Morales accusing the United States of giving aid to the breakaway rebel region in the east. Morales expelled the American ambassador...
Caracas, Venezuela, 13 September 2008. Tonight, the Bolivian government decided the detention of the Prefect of Pando, Leopoldo Fernández, for violating the constitution and promoting the killing of poor...
This group of US soldiers who are alleged to have committed suicide may well be just the latest in a pattern of similar events."Sixteen US troops from the a unit of the Airborne Division have committed suicide inside...
A dolphin die-in took place in Washington yesterday at the Japanese embassy, as environmental and animal rights activists dressed as dolphins to protest what they said was the 'horrific butchering' of thousands of...
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Coroner Jacques Ramsay released his findings Thursday on the 2006 Dawson College shooting in Montreal. The coroner's report calls for a ban on semi-automatic weapons like the one used by gunman Kimveer Gill. "In his report, Ramsey called on the government to ban the...
As NowPublic reported yesterday, Radovan Karadzic, the accused mastermind of crimes of genocide in Bosnia during the mid 1990s, was able to evade capture for a decade, after growing a long white beard that made him...
""I was here in July. Now I came to pay respect to the victims and to talk to you," Boudewin Kok, one of the former UN peacekeepers, said in a meeting with survivors.
"I think that this should be the beginning of our joint search for some answers, including to why Radovan...
July 18, 2008, Lima, Peru: The remains of nine students and a professor who were murdered in 1992 at La Cantuta University were reunited with their families in Lima this week, bringing a symbolic conclusion to one...
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July 14, 2008, Washington, DC: A memorial quilt to those who were murdered at Srebrenica, Bosnia, thirteen years ago took center stage at the U.S. Capitol Friday as congressional staffers remembered the genocide in...
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Over 30,000 Bosnian Muslims gathered today to remember the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and bury the victims of over 300 newly identified victims."The funeral ceremony for the 308 Muslims, who were among...
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France deported a Rwandan genocide suspect today to the UN war crimes tribunal based in Tanzania.I say, good for them, although it seems strange to me that the suspect had a Tutsi wife, and yet he was deported for...
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If you are a big animal lover, it will be really hard for you to look at the photos and complete reading this story.............The Faroes "Bay Of Blood" are a group of about 30 islandslocated in the North Atlantic...