Sentences with phrase «recent killing of people»

His decision came on the heels of the recent killing of people in the state by suspected Fulani herdsmen.

Not exact matches

The deaths of Brown and Garner made national headlines, but according to a recent report by the FBI, there was an average of 96 cases per year, from 2006 to 2012, of a white police officer killing a black person.

Even before recent mass shootings that killed dozens of people, a group of nuns quietly put together a plan to pressure gun makers

Here's a look at some recent U.S. school shootings, and some of the deadliest of years past: — Feb. 14, 2018: A former student is accused of killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, «This wanton killing of innocents is just the most recent of the many vicious acts perpetrated by ISIL - affiliated terrorists against the people of the region, including the murders of dozens of Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai, which only further galvanizes the international community to unite against ISIL.»

In interviews with CNN, religious leaders from Newtown, the site of last year's school shooting where 20 children and six adults were killed, said that a recent gun control agreement does not do enough to fight gun violence, leading one rabbi to doubt whether Congress was actually working for the American people.

During a mandatory convocation service, Jerry Falwell Jr. — the son of Liberty founder Jerry Falwell — referenced recent terrorist attacks in San Bernardino and Paris, and told the thousands of college students, «I always thought that if more good people had concealed - carry permits, then we could end those Muslims before they walk in and kill.»

To interview for their visas, the girls risked a 500 - mile trek cross-country to the American embassy in Kabul — the site of several recent suicide attacks and one deadly truck bomb in early June that killed at least 90 people.

Lightning killed 30 people, injured 61 and killed 48 livestock in 2016, the most recent year with full figures, according to Rwanda's ministry of disaster management and refugee affairs.

The bombing campaign has targeted hospitals, apartment blocks and other civilian sites, killing and wounding hundreds of people in recent days.

In recent months, we have seen many news reports of gay people being beaten, set on fire, or killed, and there have been numerous cases of young gays who have been driven to suicide by the vicious discrimination they face on a daily basis.

Scores of people have been killed in church bombings in the country in recent years.

To give another recent example, imagine that a brown Arab Muslim male tried to assassinate a member of Congress by shooting her in the head, killing six innocent people and wounding 13 others outside a grocery store during this assassination attempt.

«Are you aware of the number of militants they [South Africans] had trained, what if they trained these militants in badges (sic), can we link the increase (sic) rate in arm (sic) robbery to this training offered by mercenaries, can we link the recent cases of contract killings to the training; are there young people in the country already trained by these men and what are they actually doing with the skills acquired.»

«We strongly condemn the killings, rape, abductions and maiming of our people in vilnerable communities in recent past, especially the killings on April 25th at Nimbo Community of Uzo - Uwani LGA that claimed several lives.

Cruz — who posted images of himself on Instagram posing with guns and knives — has confessed to killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland and made an alarming online comment about a recent mass shooting.

The police on Monday said 46 people were killed during recent clash in some parts of Ile - Ife, Osun State.

«The Nigeria Police Force hereby implores members of the general public to disregard and discountenance the claim of plot by the IGP against the Senate President as a ruse, unfortunate and an attempt to divert Police investigation into the killings of more than Eleven (11) innocent people from kwara State and other States of the Federation in the recent past by the killer squad who operate under the guise of a cult group.

Residential detection devices for methane gas and replacement of problematic pipes are two safety improvements expected to occur in the aftermath of the March 2014 gas explosion in East Harlem that killed eight people, officials revealed in a recent State Assembly hearing on gas safety.

He said, «The new turn of killings of innocent people in Bassa LGA in recent times is very unfortunate and disheartening.

Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, has expressed concern and solidarity with the people of Southern Kaduna over the recent spate of killings in the area.

President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the government and people of Benue State on the recent killing of worshippers and two priests at a...

State lawmakers in recent days have been pushing a variety of bills meant to bolster — and fund — school safety in New York in the wake of a shooting at a Florida high school this month that killed 17 people.

No fewer than three youths including students were allegedly killed on Wednesday during the protest against the recent killings in Benue communities by suspected herdsmen which left over 50 persons in Logo and Guma local government areas of the state.

Following the recent killing of scores of people in Nasarawa State, the state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, on Wednesday held a peaceful...

While 58 people were killed in the recent Vegas shooting, an average of 160 Americans die every day from fentanyl overdoses, Lanza, a Republican, said.

In one of the more recent gas explosions, which occurred two years ago, eight people were killed in Harlem after a line ruptured.

«We are very concerned that this rash of recent killings of young people will drive us back to the old days,» said State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, who blamed much of the violence on a growing problem with youth gangs in Upper Manhattan.

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris, on the 2nd of May, 2018 paid an operational visit to Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State to assess the security situation as a result of recent killings of innocent people in the area.

The Nigerian Army has declared five persons wanted in connection with the recent killings in Takum LGA of Taraba State.

The Defence minister in a statement signed by Col Tukur Gusau, entitled «Re-Armed Forces Collude with Bandits to Kill People», said, «A recent comment by one of the nation's elder statesman alleging that the Nigerian Military collude with bandits to kill people and therefore calling on them to rise and defend themselves outside constitutional provisions; this is highly uncalled for and is an invitation to anarchy and should be disregarded by well - meaning NigeriKill People», said, «A recent comment by one of the nation's elder statesman alleging that the Nigerian Military collude with bandits to kill people and therefore calling on them to rise and defend themselves outside constitutional provisions; this is highly uncalled for and is an invitation to anarchy and should be disregarded by well - meaning NigePeople», said, «A recent comment by one of the nation's elder statesman alleging that the Nigerian Military collude with bandits to kill people and therefore calling on them to rise and defend themselves outside constitutional provisions; this is highly uncalled for and is an invitation to anarchy and should be disregarded by well - meaning Nigerikill people and therefore calling on them to rise and defend themselves outside constitutional provisions; this is highly uncalled for and is an invitation to anarchy and should be disregarded by well - meaning Nigepeople and therefore calling on them to rise and defend themselves outside constitutional provisions; this is highly uncalled for and is an invitation to anarchy and should be disregarded by well - meaning Nigerians.

Following the recent killings of about 46 Nimbo villagers in Enugu State by suspected Fulani herdsmen, strong indications have emerged that the people of the...

Former President Jonathan wishes to express his condolences to the government and people of Benue, Kaduna, Taraba, Adamawa and Nasarawa states, over the recent spate of killings occasioned by herdsmen / farmers clashes.

The statement reads partly: «The leadership and entire family members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is horrified at the recent killing of over 46 innocent citizens in Kaduna State and the seeming silence of the majority over atrocities committed by a minority.

«Leaders from these regions of the country were received by the leadership of the Middle Belt in Benue State in solidarity with the people and government of Benue State over the recent killings.

DISCOVER spoke to Burt Rutan about his inspiration for SpaceShipOne, what SpaceShipTwo passengers can expect to get for their money, why the future of spaceflight doesn't belong to NASA — and the aftermath of a recent explosion at one of Rutan's test facilities during a test of rocket motor components that killed three people and severely injured three others.

A more recent incident — the 2005 publication in the journal Science of the sequence of the 1918 flu virus, which killed more than 20 million people — prompted computer pioneers Ray Kurzweil and Bill Joy, in a New York Times op - ed article, to rail against too much scientific openness.

The most recent outbreak in the Republic of Congo started on 13 October, and has killed now 11 people.

A recent NTSB report revealed that sleep - deprived air traffic controllers played a role in at least four near - fatal incidents on the nation's runways since 2001, and the controller on duty in one of the worst U.S. accidents in five years — the 2006 crash of a Comair flight that killed 49 people in Lexington, Kentucky — was working on only two hours of sleep.

Lead author Antonis Katsiyannis of Clemson University in the US, together with his colleagues, found the recent killing of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida is not an isolated occurrence, but part of a deadly epidemic that needs to be addressed.

The real sucker turned out to be McAfee himself, founder of the anti-virus software company that bears his name and a person of interest in the recent killing in Belize of his neighbor, a fellow American named Gregory Faull.

Tornadoes are unpredictable and deadly — witness the set of twisters that tore through Bangladesh on May 13, killing at least 500 and injuring up to 50,000 people (and look at recent tornado statistics.

Scientists are excited by recent success with fecal microbiota transplants (FMT), transfer of healthy fecal matter into ailing patients, notably those with clostridium difficile (C. diff), a bacterial infection acquired after antibiotics, often in hospitals, that kills more than 15,000 people a year.

In Response to Parkland Shooting, SafeSchools Training's «Aftermath of School Tragedy» Course Now Available to All Educators, Free of Charge CINCINNATI, OH (February 21, 2018)-- Last week, Parkland, Florida was home to one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent history, with 17 people tragically killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

During the most recent eight - year period of study (2005 - 12), 19 people were killed by Pits per year in the US.

Within recent memory, I have seen among these groups lying about breed («boxer mix,» «lab mix»); offering dogs with known animal aggression («can NOT be in a home with cats»); agitating for a pit who killed a person to be spared and transferred to an - out - of - state «rescue;» directly encouraging people to bring their pits to dog - and child - filled charity events, etc..

During the most recent eight - year period (2005 - 12), pit bulls killed an average of 19 people per year.

Flags are flying at half - staff this week at E3 — the Electronic Entertainment Expo — in honor of the 49 people killed and 53 others wounded Sunday morning in Orlando, Florida, in the deadliest mass shooting in recent American history.

But on Thursday night, a version of that same flag, created by artist Dread Scott, flew in New York's Union Square as hundreds of people protested recent police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

What's most surprising about the recent return of classical portraiture is realizing how utterly absent it was from the art world for so many years, to such an extent that Andy Warhol — one of the people ostensibly responsible for killing the form — helped found the New York Academy of Art in 1982 in order to salvage the kind of technical fine arts training (most notably figure drawing) that seemed at the time in danger of becoming extinct.