A glance at school violence across the globe in recent yearsSeptember 17th, 2009 A glance at school violence in recent yearsA student armed with an ax and Molotov cocktails attacked his high school in southern Germany on Thursday. Here is a glance at some of the worst school violence worldwide in recent years:
April 30: Farda Gadyrov, 29, enters the prestigious Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in the capital, Baku, armed with an automatic pistol and clips.
Clarification: Russia-Gulag Required storySeptember 11th, 2009 Clarification: Russia-Gulag Required storyMOSCOW — In a story Sept. 9, The Associated Press reported that excerpts of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago" will become required reading in Russian high schools.
Russia makes once-banned book on horrors of Soviet Gulag required reading in schoolsSeptember 9th, 2009 'Gulag' book, once banned, is now required readingMOSCOW — The book that made "Gulag" a synonym for the horrors of Soviet oppression will be taught in Russian high schools, a generation after the Kremlin banned it as destructive to the Communist cause and exiled its author. The Education Ministry said Wednesday that excerpts of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago," published in 1973, are to be required reading for students.
Russia makes parts of once-banned 'The Gulag Archipelago' now required reading in schoolsSeptember 9th, 2009 'Gulag Archipelago' now required reading in RussiaMOSCOW — A Russian news agency says parts of the once-banned book "The Gulag Archipelago" have been declared required reading for upper-level students in the country's schools. The sprawling book, regarded as Alexander Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, recounts the brutality and despair of the prison camp system set up under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
The Basque country at a glanceAugust 29th, 2009 The Basque country at a glanceThe Basque Country: This region of northern Spain became semiautonomous in 1979 after a new Spanish Constitution was adopted following the death of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco.
Eight killed in Venezuela prison brawlAugust 19th, 2009 CARACAS - At least eight people have been killed and five injured in a brawl among inmates at an overpopulated prison in the southern Venezuelan state of Bolivar, a prison watchdog group has said. The incident occurred at the Vista Hermosa prison early Tuesday morning when a gunbattle broke out among the prisoners, Humberto Prado, the head of the Venezuelan Prison Observatory, told Union Radio.
Calif. Corrections officials brief sheriffs after riot cut 1,200 beds from state prison systemAugust 14th, 2009 Calif. officials brief sheriffs after prison riotCHINO, Calif. — Prison officials are briefing sheriffs across California on how a weekend riot that destroyed seven Southern California prison housing units might affect their jail populations in weeks to come.
Fired Arkansas prison guard denies allegations that she had relationship with death-row inmateAugust 13th, 2009 Fired Ark. guard denies death-row sex allegationLITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Arkansas prison guard fired after an investigation into allegations that she had a romantic relationship with a death-row inmate says the prisoner never committed a sex act with her.
Hundreds hurt in 11-hour California prison riotAugust 10th, 2009 Los Angeles (US): A 11-hour riot, at the Reception Center West at the California Institution for Men in Chino, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles, on Saturday night and Sunday morning, has left 250 prisoners injured and 55 being admitted to hospital. Black prison gangs fought Latino gangs in hand-to-hand combat; the New York Times quoted the prison authorities, as saying.
A glance at Basque separatist group ETA and its goalsJuly 29th, 2009 A glance at Basque group ETA and its goalsA glance at the armed Basque separatist group ETA and its conflict with Spain. HISTORY — ETA was formed in 1959 during the right-wing dictatorship of Gen.
2nd of 3 Indiana State Prison escapees caught at parents' home in southern IndianaJuly 21st, 2009 2nd of 3 Indiana prison escapees capturedROCKPORT, Ind. — Authorities say the second of three inmates who escaped from the Indiana State Prison has been captured in southern Indiana.
A glance at Obama's overseas itineraryJuly 7th, 2009 A glance at Obama's overseas itineraryA glance at President Barack Obama's itinerary for his overseas trip:
FRIDAY, JULY 10, IN ITALY
— Attends G-8 breakfast with African countries. — Attends G-8 session with African countries.
Arkansas governor wants 'in-depth investigation' after report outlines prison abuseJune 23rd, 2009 Ark. governor wants probe into prison abuseLITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas Gov.
German prison doctors: John Demjanjuk is fit enough to remain in prisonMay 13th, 2009 German prison: Demjanjuk fit for prisonBERLIN — Germany's Stadelheim prison says doctors have determined that John Demjanjuk is fit enough to remain in custody. He is being held on suspicion of acting as an accessory to the murder of 29,000 people at a Nazi death camp.
Past deadly flu pandemics _ a glanceApril 25th, 2009 A glance a past flu pandemicsFlu pandemics occur whenever a new strain of the virus arises to which most people have no natural immunity. Experts believe they have been occurring at irregular intervals since at least the 16th-century.
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