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New Delhi (AFP) - Les autorités de Delhi ont ordonné la fermeture anticipée des écoles de la capitale indienne pour les vacances d'été, avec "effet immédiat", selon la presse locale mardi, en raison de températures torrides avec un pic de 47,8°Celsius atteint lundi. Le service météorologique indien a prévu une "vague de chaleur sévère" cette semaine. Lundi, il faisait 47,8°C à Najafgarh en banlieue de Delhi, soit la température la plus élevée de tout le pays. Les autorités de plusieurs États, dont l'Haryana, le Madhya Pradesh, le Punjab et le Rajasthan, dans le nord et centre du pays, ont égal...
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Heatwaves have caused school closures for millions of children and triggered health warnings across South and Southeast Asia. Temperature records don’t show the whole story, however, with high humidity making it much harder for people to keep cool. These dangerous conditions increase the chances of exhaustion and heatstroke and can even be deadly. Severe heatwaves have already been blamed for almost three dozen deaths across the region. “Thousands of records are being brutalized all over Asia, which is by far the most extreme event in world climatic history,” weather historian Maximiliano Herr...
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Climate change should be a compulsory school subject in Scotland, according to a new report on how the government can better engage with people on the issue. Classes on climate was the top recommendation from a panel made up of 23 members of the public. They were randomly selected from across the country to join the Climate Change People’s Panel. “There needs to be within the curriculum climate change as a compulsory subject from primary and into high school and children should be involved in developing this," the report reads. “So that all children are made aware, have the opportunity to enga...
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The motive for a school shooting in Finland that left a 12-year-old boy dead was bullying, Finnish police said in a statement. The suspected attacker, also aged 12, was detained and taken into custody after the attack at Viertola school in Vantaa, on the outskirts of Helsinki on Tuesday. "The suspect has said during interrogations that he was the target of bullying, and this information has also been confirmed in the preliminary investigation by the police," a statement said. "The suspect had transferred to the Viertola school at the beginning of this year", it noted. The shooter and the victi...
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France’s Culture Minister Rachida Dati has suggested closing some public art schools that are “in a situation of crisis.” “We need to put an end to these shoestring policies, because ultimately it doesn’t solve the foundational problem, and it means public funds very poorly spent,” she said in a speech before the National Assembly on Tuesday. “I want high-performing schools, which have the same chances of success, and the same openness to all. If we must shut down certain schools, because today they no longer have the means to offer a quality environment, perhaps that will be the case.” France...
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Houston (AFP) - A damning Justice Department report on Thursday cited "critical failures" by Texas law enforcement who waited until 21 people had been killed by a mass shooter at a school before finally intervening. Nineteen young children and two teachers were killed when a teenage gunman went on a rampage at Uvalde's Robb Elementary School in May 2022 in America's worst school shooting in a decade. Police eventually shot and killed the attacker. Investigators "identified several critical failures," the report said, and "the most significant failure was that the responding officers should hav...
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Perry (United States) (AFP) - A teenager armed with a handgun and shotgun killed a fellow student and wounded five other people at a high school in the midwestern US state of Iowa on Thursday, authorities said. The shooting at around 7:30 am triggered a major police response as emergency vehicles and armed units rushed to Perry High School, where classes had not yet started for the day. The victim who died was in sixth grade, meaning aged 11 or 12, and was likely in the high school for a breakfast program, said Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. ...
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Perry (United States) (AFP) - A shooting on Thursday at a high school in the midwestern US state of Iowa left "multiple gunshot victims," local authorities said, adding the incident was over but without confirming if anyone had been killed. "We're still unclear exactly how many are injured or what the extent of those are, but we're working on that right now. There is no further danger to the public," Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante told reporters after the shooting at the Perry High School. Broadcaster ABC reported that at least one person died, without indicating if that was the shooter. T...
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Washington (AFP) - A Virginia woman whose six-year-old son shot and severely wounded his teacher was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday. Deja Taylor's son brought her gun to school in the southern US state on January 6 and shot his elementary school teacher. The teacher was hospitalized for two weeks with injuries to her hand and chest. The 26-year-old Taylor was sentenced to 21 months in prison in November after pleading guilty to illegally obtaining the firearm and making a false statement on a government form required to purchase the weapon. Taylor had claimed, falsely, on the Burea...
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Washington (AFP) - A Virginia woman whose six-year-old son shot and severely wounded his teacher was sentenced to 21 months in prison on Wednesday on gun charges. Deja Taylor's son brought her gun to school in the southern US state on January 6 and shot his elementary school teacher. The teacher was hospitalized for two weeks with injuries to her hand and chest. The 26-year-old Taylor pleaded guilty in June to illegally obtaining the firearm and making a false statement on a government form required to purchase the weapon. Taylor had claimed, falsely, on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearm...
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