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US Gunman Kills 19 Schoolchildren, Two Others

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US Gunman Kills 19 Schoolchildren, Two Others

A mass shooting in a school in Texas, United States has claimed the lives of 21 people including 19 schoolchildren and two adults.

The tragedy occured as a gunman opened fire in a Texas primary school which teaches children aged seven to 10, on Tuesday.

The attack at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, a small community in the south of the Texas state, just a few days before the end of the school year, according to the police, was carried out by a gunman identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, who was also shot dead by police.

The 18-year-old suspect was reportedly armed with a handgun, an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and high-capacity magazines, and was suspected to have shot and killed his grandmother before going on the school-shooting rampage, investigators say.

The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Chief of Police Pete Arredondo said the shooting began at 11:32 local time on Tuesday, adding that investigators believe the attacker “did act alone during this heinous crime”.

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While reacting to the incident, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the gunman abandoned a vehicle before entering the school to “horrifically, incomprehensibly” open fire.

In a speech from the White House, President Joe Biden said he was “sick and tired” of responding to mass shootings, while calling for gun control.

“How many scores of little children who witnessed what happened – see their friends die, as if they’re in a battlefield, for God’s sake? They’ll live with it the rest of their lives,”

Biden said, before ordering that flags at the White House and other US federal buildings be flown at half-mast in honour of the victims in Uvalde.

 

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Bill Gates Recounts Worst Mistake

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Bill Gates Drops On Billionaire Ranking After Stock Transfer To Ex-wife

By John Michael

Erstwhile word’s richest person and founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, has revealed that his divorce of his wife, Melinda, remains his most regrettable action.

Gates who revealed this in a recent interview with The Times published on Saturday, added that the separation left him and Melinda miserable.

While answering questions bordering on his marriage, the 69-year-old entrepreneur said: “I’m more cheerful now, the mistake I most regret.”

“There are others, but none that matter.

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“The divorce thing was miserable for me and Melinda for at least two years.

“Melinda and I still spend time together as a family. We have three children and two grandchildren, so there are always family events.

“The kids are doing well and have strong values.”

The former couple, who share Jennifer (28), Rory (25), and Phoebe (22), in a joint statement in 2021, announced an end to their 27 years marriage as a result of irreconcilable differences.

READ ALSO: Bloomberg Removes Bill Gates From Billionaire List After Divorce

The duo has also moved on with Gates now dating Paula Hurd, the widow of former Oracle CEO Mark Hurd.

 

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BREAKING: Former US President, Jimmy Carter Is Dead

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By John Michael Ojo

The longest-lived president in United States of America, Jimmy Carter, is dead.
This was made known in a statement by the Carter Center and signed by his son Chip Carter on Sunday.

It reads, “My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights, and unselfish love,” said Chip Carter, the former president’s son.

“My brothers, sister, and I shared him with the rest of the world through these common beliefs. The world is our family because of the way he brought people together, and we thank you for honoring his memory by continuing to live these shared beliefs.”

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President Carter is survived by his children — Jack, Chip, Jeff, and Amy; 11 grandchildren; and 14 grea-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Rosalynn, and one grandchild.

Jimmy Carter who was the 39th president of the United States and a recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, died peacefully at his home in Plains, Georgia, in the company of his family. He was 100,

 

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How I Escaped Israel’s Air Strikes – WHO DG

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The Director General of the World Health Organization, WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has revealed how he escaped death by a whisker on Thursday from a deadly Israeli air strikes on an airport in Yemen’s Huthi rebel-held capital.

The Ethiopian-born public health expert who said his ears were still ringing from the effect of the bang, stated this during an interview on BBC radio on Saturday.

Tedros, 59, disclosed that the first missile struck the departure lounge of the airport next to where him and his colleague were seated before another brought down the control tower.

Narrating his near death experience, he said, “We heard a heavy explosion nearby, and then I think repeated. The sound was so, so loud… So deafening, actually. Still my ear rings. It’s already more than 24 hours now. I don’t know if it affected my ear. The explosion was so heavy.

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“It was the departure lounge next to us that was hit, and later on the control tower.

“It was very chaotic. People were in disarray and running everywhere and no shelter: we were completely exposed.

“It’s a matter of luck. Otherwise, if the missile deviated just slightly, it could have been on our heads… my colleague actually said after all that, we escaped death narrowly.”

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