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The Highland Park tragedy was the 309th mass shooting in the United States this year

Highland Park

According to records, the Fourth of July massacre in Highland Park, Illinois was the 309th mass shooting in the United States this year. A shooter opened fire on the city’s traditional Independence Day celebration on Monday, killing six people and injuring scores more. Aspiring rapper Robert “Bobby” Crimo, 22, was recognised as a “person of … Read more

At least 20 dead in new DR Congo massacre

DR Congo

The attack occurred overnight in the village of Bwanasura in Irumu territory. Volunteers from the Red Cross in Irumu, “counted 36 bodies”: David Beiza. “Ituri and North Kivu have been under a “state of siege” since May last year. At least 20 people were killed in a new massacre in the Democratic Republic of the … Read more

US Senate targets modest deal on gun control

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Lawmakers are aware that they risk wasting momentum. Activists fear a setback as Supreme Court set to issue first major Second Amendment. The cross-party has focused on incentives for states to grant courts “red flag” authority. A bipartisan group of US senators was expected to resume talks on a limited package of gun control measures … Read more

Matthew McConaughey returns to his hometown of Uvalde, Texas, following the school massacre

Matthew McConaughey

Following the school massacre earlier this week, Hollywood actor Matthew McConaughey went to his hometown of Uvalde, Texas.

On Friday, May 27, the Interstellar actor joined Rep. Tony Gonzales in visiting families and people touched by the tragedy, including parents who lost their children in the massacre and school system officials.

The horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday killed 21 people, including 19 pupils and two adults.

McConaughey, 52, visited the bereaved community at Uvalde Civic Centre. “Thank you, Matthew, for your contribution to the healing of our community. Your visit brought a lot of smiles to Uvalde. My buddy, I’ll see you soon “Gonzales, 41, uploaded images of his visit to Twitter.

The actor from Dallas Buyers Club took the trip after releasing a poignant message in reaction to the attack. “As you are all aware, another mass shooting occurred today, this time in my hometown of Uvalde, Texas,” he stated.

“Once again, we have regrettably demonstrated that we are failing to be accountable for the privileges that our liberties offer us,” he wrote.

“We can manage this pandemic, and no matter whose side of the aisle we are on, we all know we can do better. We must improve “McConaughey continued.

“Action must be taken so that no parent has to go through what the parents in Uvalde and others have gone through,” he added.

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Biden departs to console Texas town reeling from school massacre

Texas

On Sunday, US President Joe Biden flew to Uvalde, Texas, to console residents who were mourning the deaths of 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in the small Texas town. Harrowing accounts are emerging of the ordeal faced by survivors of the Tuesday attack, as Biden calls for action to prevent future massacres … Read more

Harrowing new accounts emerge from Uvalde’s young survivors

Texas shooting

New horrifying tales of the experience faced by survivors of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, emerged Saturday, inflaming public outrage over the massacre even as the deeply traumatized town prepared for a visit by US President Joe Biden on Sunday. The haunting stories told by young students who were forced to play dead as … Read more

Jennifer Lopez is worried for her children and loved ones following the school massacre

Jennifer lopez

Jennifer Lopez decried the latest school massacre in the United States on Wednesday, which killed numerous children, and asked for action to avoid such a tragedy from occurring again. In a shooting Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, a community of about 16,000 people about 80 miles west of San Antonio, a shooter … Read more

Piers Morgan, Taylor Swift, and Selena Gomez all expressed outrage over the tragic school massacre in Texas

Piers Morgan, Taylor Swift, and Selena Gomez

Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, and Piers Morgan all expressed their outrage at the horrible mass shooting at a Texas high school, pleading with Congress to enact tighter gun restrictions. Former Good Morning Britain host and 32-year-old vocalist joined Selena Gomez, Priyanka Chopra, and others in pleading for a change in American gun regulations. The horrible … Read more

Morning of horror: the Texas shooter’s path

Texas

Salvador Ramos, a troubled youngster from a small hamlet in Texas, acquired his first assault gun the day after his 18th birthday. He walked into a local elementary school a week later and shot and killed 19 young children and two teachers. Authorities are still trying to piece together what drove Ramos to commit America’s … Read more

4,000 uprooted by fighting in Iraq’s Sinjar: Kurdish official

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An official from Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region said Tuesday that fighting between the Iraqi army and Yazidi fighters connected with Turkey’s banned separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has uprooted thousands. The Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking non-Arab, non-Muslim minority who were massacred by Islamic State group jihadists in 2014. Clashes left one Iraqi soldier dead on … Read more

Ukraine crisis voted as ‘genocide’ in Canadian parliament

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Ukraine crisis voted as ‘genocide’ in Canadian parliament. Canadian legislators cast a ballot collectively on Wednesday to call Russia’s assaults in Ukraine a “genocide. The individuals from parliament Moscow carried out “more than adequate proof of monstrous atrocities against humankind”. The Canadian House of Commons movement said atrocities by Russia incorporate mass barbarities, deliberate occurrences … Read more

Israel adds 40,430 new COVID-19 cases, tally tops 1.7 mln

Omicron Variant

JERUSALEM – Israel on Friday reported 40,430 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 1,713,563, or 18.1 percent of the total population, the state’s Health Ministry said. The COVID-19 death toll of the country increased by three to 8,293, while the number of patients in serious condition rose from … Read more

US Senate adopts resolution endorsing 1984 Sikh violence in India as ‘genocide’

Senate of New Jersey, a northeastern state in the United States (US), has unanimously passed a resolution condemning the 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India as genocide. The resolution was sponsored by Senator Stephen M Sweeney which will now be referred to the US president and vice-president. The resolution read that the Sikh genocide began on … Read more

Karsaz tragedy anniversary: PPP to stage political power show in Karachi today

PPP to show political power today on 14th anniversary of Karsaz tragedy

KARACHI: Arrangements for the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) rally at the Bagh-e-Jinnah in Karachi have been completed to mark the 14th anniversary of the horrific bomb attack on late Benazir Bhutto’s caravan on Karsaz Road, which took 177 innocent lives on October 18, 2007. The public gathering will be addressed by the PPP’s senior leaders, … Read more

Sadly, global politics won over great game of cricket: Ali Zaidi

Sadly, global politics won over great game of cricket: Ali Zaidi

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Haider Zaidi in a tweet said that sadly, global politics has won over the great game of cricket. In a tweet, the minister said that there were no security threats and New Zealand gladly accepted credit for handling March’19 massacre of Muslims with grace, adding that “then you … Read more

Karsaz massacre completes 12 years, Bilawal pays tribute to the martyrs

Karsaz massacre completes 12 years

Twelve years have passed since the massacre of Karsaz, Karachi, but the fierce memories of this bloody day are still fresh today. According to the details, twelve years have passed since the tragedy of Karsaz. In the tragic incident, well-respected PPP workers and sympathizers were martyred and more than 500 were injured. On October 18, … Read more