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Connecticut school shooting
On December 14, 2012, a man wearing combat gear and armed with semiautomatic pistols and a semiautomatic rifle entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Connecticut, US, where he fatally shot 20 children and 7 adults. The gunman, identified as Adam Lanza, age 20, most likely shot and killed himself during the incident. The gunman had earlier shot and killed his mother at their residence prior to the shooting at the school. Lanza's girlfriend has also been reported missing in New Jersey.
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Father claims remains of Connecticut gunman
HARTFORD - The body of the man who killed 26 people in the second-largest school shooting in US history has been claimed by his father. A spokesman for the family said yesterday Peter Lanza had claimed the remains of Adam Lanza, 20, who shot himself after the rampage in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14 in which he killed six adults and 20 children after slaying his mother. AP
Bodies of 30 torture victims found in Syria
BEIRUT - Thirty bodies were found in a district of Damascus that has been the scene of regular clashes between regime troops and rebels, a watchdog said yesterday. "Thirty bodies were found in the Barzeh district," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "They bore signs of torture and have so far not been identified." AFP
US media empire back from the brink
CHICAGO - A media conglomerate that counts the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times among its assets said it would successfully emerge from its bankruptcy restructuring. The Tribune Company said it was to receive a new US$1.1 billion secured loan and US$300 million revolving credit facility. AFP
12 killed in bomb and gun attacks across Iraq
BAGHDAD - A wave of bombings and shootings killed 12 people in Iraq amid anti-government protests and simmering political crises ahead of major Shiite Muslim commemoration rituals. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks in eight towns and cities that also injured more than 40. The violence came amid tensions between Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and a secular Sunni-backed party. AFP
Catholic push against gay marriages in UK
LONDON - The leader of Catholics in England and Wales has urged followers to write to their local MPs to oppose government plans to allow gay marriage. In a letter read to congregations at the weekend, Archbishop Vincent Nichols urged MPs to "defend, not change, the bond of man and woman in marriage as the essential element of the vision of the family". AP
Double Oscar-winning sound editor drowns
WELLINGTON - Double Oscar-winning sound editor Mike Hopkins has drowned in a rafting accident. He was 53. The New Zealander died after being thrown into a stretch of river in the remote Tararua Ranges, in the central North Island, on Saturday. Hopkins won Oscars for his work on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in 2003 and King Kong in 2006. AFP
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