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According to BBC breaking news, ‘Guinea’s vice-president has returned from business abroad to take charge of the country after an attempted assassination on the president. President Moussa Dadis Camara was flown to Morocco, where a spokesman said he underwent a “minor operation” after being shot on Thursday. Vice-President Sekouba [...]

China is observed to be suffering from amnesia regarding the massacre that occurred at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 20 years ago. Some attribute this to state-enforced erasure of collective memory. The communist regime in China ‘tolerates no mention of the massacre.’ On June 3 and 4, 1989, students and mostly Chinese elite and intellectuals filled [...]

A still unidentified man, possibly of Georgian origin, shot and killed at least 13 people and wounded 18 others after opening fire on students and faculty of the Azerbaijan’s State Oil Academy in Baku, the capital of the oil-rich country. The school building was immediately surrounded by the police who promptly set up roadblocks in the area. Several [...]

On April 20 1999, teeners Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, armed with pistols, shotguns, rifles, and hunting knives, and went on a shooting spree that lasted 49 minutes and left 15 people dead. In the weeks that followed, the media were still in a frenzy offering various explanations as to why the [...]

In 1982, 7 people in Chicago died after taking the medicine Tylenol that had been contaminated with cyanide. The police discovered that the packaging of the medicines were tampered with, allowing the perpetrator to contaminate the pills with the lethal chemical. Now, the FBI has reopened the case, investigating on new clues. The agents searched the [...]