School Shooting

British man pleads guilty to threatening massacre at US school

27 Apr 2013

A British man pleaded guilty yesterday to making Facebook threats to kill 200 people at a school in the United States, which sparked a major security alert that saw thousands of pupils kept at...

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Reflections: none so blind

13 Jan 2013

The Sandy Hook school shooting in the United States last month was as shocking as it was baffling. To many non-Americans, the right to bear arms and the strident defence of that right by a large...

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After Newtown, Colombia firm makes bullet-proof kid clothes

3 Jan 2013

Miguel Caballero has been making bullet-proof clothes for politicians and other bigwigs for 20 years, but not for kids. The latest US school massacre has changed that.

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Letters to the Editor, January 3, 2013

3 Jan 2013

Time almost stands still at Now TV

After reading the correspondence focusing on Now TV often showing repeats of BBC series, I am writing to say that this is too often the case and is...

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How they see it, December 23, 2012

23 Dec 2012

1. The New York Times

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Arizona teen arrested over YouTube threat to 'kill everyone' at high school

22 Dec 2012

Police in Arizona said they arrested a 16-year-old student who threatened in an online video to "kill everyone" at her high school, then kill herself.

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Opinion

Hari Kumar

Workers pay the price for our bargains

5:20AM

Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

3:47AM

Newtown schools reopen as first funerals of shooting victims held

Most children in Newtown returned to classes yesterday for the first time since last week's shooting, but survivors stayed at home and Sandy Hook school remained a crime scene.

4:33AM

US must tighten gun control laws

I write regarding the mass shooting on Friday morning in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School before taking his...

1:52AM

American myth of freedom through guns

The brutal murder of 20 children and seven adults in Newtown, Connecticut, shakes us to the core as individuals and requires a response as citizens. The United States seems to reel from one mass...

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Outcry over Chinese state media coverage of tragic school attacks

Two parallel incidents of mass violence occurred over the weekend: a shooting in Connecticut, in the United States, and a knife attack in Henan province, China - both involved men walking into...

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US school shooting revives gun debate

Relatives of those killed in past mass shootings reacted with outrage to Friday’s news of another massacre at an elementary school in Connecticut. The tragedy also reignited calls from gun control...

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