A group on Saturday, August 9, urged the government to prioritize urgent psychosocial support in schools following a recent classroom shooting in Nueva Ecija, which left two students critically injured and deeply shaken the local community. The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines, in a...
The Department of Education (DepEd) and a teachers’ group on Friday, August 8, strongly condemned the shooting incident at Sta. Rosa Integrated School in Nueva Ecija, which left two students in critical condition and sent shockwaves through the education community. In separate statements, DepEd...
BRASILIA, Brazil -- The death toll from a twin school shooting in Brazil rose to four on Saturday after a teacher wounded in the attack by a 16-year-old shooter wearing Nazi symbols died from her injuries, officials said. Authorities in the city of Aracruz, in Espirito Santo state, had said some of...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Police were hunting Monday the suspect in a shooting that left three people dead and two others wounded on a university campus in the US state of Virginia, authorities said. The main campus of the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville was locked down while...
MONTREAL, Canada -- A shooting that sent four people to hospital and another gun-related incident forced thousands of students at two Montreal area colleges to go into lockdown on Friday. At 5:30 pm local time (2230 GMT), gunshots rang out at a park across the street from Montmorency College in the...
WASHINGTON, United States -- A Texas jury ordered US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Friday to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages for falsely claiming that the deadly 2012 Sandy Hook elementary shooting was a "hoax." This file photo taken on August 15, 2018 shows a computer screen displaying...
WASHINGTON, United States -- An 11-year-old girl told horrified lawmakers Wednesday of smearing herself in her murdered classmate's blood to play dead during the most chilling in a spate of gun massacres that have convulsed the United States. WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 8: Miah Cerrillo, a survivor of...