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HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Pro-democracy protesters Wednesday stepped up a “blossom everywhere” campaign of road blocks and vandalism across Hong Kong that has crippled the international financial hub this week and ignited some of the worst violence in five months of unrest. The new phase in the crisis, which has forced schools and shopping malls to close as well as the shutdown of large chunks of the vital train network, prompted police to […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain’s government on Wednesday announced new post-Brexit immigration plans that will allow international students to work in the country for two years after graduating. Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom said the change was aimed at attracting the “brightest and the best from around the world” and a sign of “the UK’s ambition once we have left the European Union”. “Instead of being open to free movement from just the (EU), the […]
CHARLOTTE, United States (AFP) — At least two people were killed and several wounded Tuesday in a shooting at the University of North Carolina’s Charlotte campus, staff and local media reported. “Shots reported near Kennedy. Run, Hide, Fight. Secure yourself immediately,” the university’s office of emergency management tweeted. The Charlotte Observer said two people were dead and two others had life-threatening injuries. The local Fox television affiliate identified the dead as boys aged 17 […]
by Thomas URBAIN “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman and fellow Hollywood actress Lori Loughlin were among dozens indicted Tuesday in a multi-million dollar scam to help children of the American elite cheat their way into top universities. The accused, who also include chief executives, financiers, the chairman of a prominent law firm, a winemaker and fashion designer, allegedly cheated on admissions tests and arranged for bribes to get their children into prestigious schools including Yale, […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – New York University said Thursday it would offer all its current and future medical school students free tuition in an effort to tackle soaring debt levels and encourage more applicants. The move — which it said was financed by the generosity of the university’s “trustees, alumni, and friends,” amounts to a reduction of $55,018 in annual fees, regardless of financial needs or academic merit. It does not cover living […]
by Nova Safo Agence France Presse CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — A university student fatally shot his parents on his school campus Friday in the US state of Michigan, police said, before fleeing and setting off an hours-long manhunt. The early morning incident put the campus into lockdown — trapping students in classrooms and dormitories until mid-afternoon — while police conducted an expansive search for the 19-year-old suspected gunman. James Eric Davis, described as […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) – A package exploded at South Korea’s Yonsei University in central Seoul on Tuesday (June 13) injuring a staff member who opened it in his office, a fire official said. Yonhap news agency said the blast sent small bolt nails flying from the package. It said the engineering faculty member was not seriously injured, suffering burns to his arm, and was being treated at the university hospital. The injured staffer was […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Dozens of students at Indiana’s Notre Dame University protested White House policies on Sunday by walking out of a commencement speech by Vice President Mike Pence, who criticized political correctness at American colleges. The members of the graduating class — dressed in cap and gowns together with some two thousand classmates — stood up and quietly left the school’s football stadium when Pence began delivering his speech, videos posted online […]
New York, New York – Count Harvard women’s team among the elite not only academically but on the indoor track and field at the 2017 Ivy League Heptagonal (Heps) Indoor Track and Field Championships. Held at the Armory in the Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City, and home of the National Track and Field Hall of Fame, the heavily favored Lady Crimson finished the two-day championship with an astonishing 126 points to become the […]
(Reuters) Gunmen attacked the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on Wednesday, with explosions and gunfire reported inside the campus, an Afghan interior ministry official and a student said. “Several gunmen attacked the American University in Kabul and there are reports of gunfire and explosions,” the official said. “They are inside the compound and there are foreign professors along with hundreds of students.” Ahmad Shaheer, a student at the university, told Reuters by telephone that […]
