Tag Archives: Year’s
Columbine massacre remembered, twenty years on
Twelve students and a teacher were killed on April 20, 1999, when two teenagers armed with an assortment of weapons and home-made bombs went on the rampage at the school, whose name has become synonymous with school shootings. Only last year, 17 students and staff were killed when an ex-pupil went on the rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, while 27 people, mostly children, were killed at Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012 and 32 at Virginia Tech university in 2007.
Julian Assange Extradition Could Take Months, or Even Years
After years of giving refuge, Ecuador suspends Assange's citizenship
A bearded and frail-looking Assange was arrested by British police on Thursday after Ecuador terminated his asylum at its London embassy, where he had lived since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault investigation. Assange’s Ecuadorean citizenship was suspended on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Jose Valencia told reporters. To some, Australian-born Assange is a hero for exposing what supporters cast as abuse of power and for championing free speech.
Assange arrest ends years cooped up in embassy
During his nearly seven years holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London, devoid of sunlight, exercise and companions, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lived like a recluse. Visibly ageing and suffering from deteriorating physical and psychological health, the 47-year-old Australian adopted a subsistence lifestyle, with just a cat for daily company. Assange sought asylum in the embassy in June 2012 after a British judge ruled he should be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual assault.
Ecuador turns WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over to UK police after six years of asylum
From ‘Full House’ to Big House, Lori Loughlin Faces Two Years in Prison
A British Woman Is Facing Jail in Dubai Because She Called Her Ex's Wife a 'Horse' on Facebook 3 Years Ago
Forty years of US-Iran relations
Key dates between the US and Iran since 1979 after their exchange Monday in which the US designated Tehran’s elite military force a terrorist organization and Iran called the US a “state sponsor of terrorism”. On November 4, 1979 radical students demanding the extradition of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi take 52 diplomats and employees of the American embassy in Tehran hostage, seven months after the establishment of the Islamic Republic. The hostages are held for 444 days in a crisis that results in the first US economic sanctions leveraged against the state.
25 years after genocide, can Rwanda heal? 6 villages try
MBYO, Rwanda (AP) — Twenty-five years ago, Tasian Nkundiye murdered his neighbor with a machete.
Teen says he is Illinois child missing for eight years
Hopes were raised on Wednesday that an Illinois boy missing since 2011 may have been found in Kentucky, after local police agencies were asked to help track down a teen’s claim that he is Timmothy Pitzen, who was last seen with his mother eight years ago. The police department in Sharonville, Ohio, was one of numerous agencies that received a request from authorities in Kentucky to help search local motels for men who the teen said had been holding him, Sharonville Police Chief Steve Vanover told Reuters. A police report filed by a Sharonville detective summarized a dramatic story of escape from kidnappers, which Vanover said was told to Sharonville police by officials in Campbell County, Kentucky.
