According to police, on January 6, the first-grader pulled a 9mm Taurus pistol, which had been legally purchased by his mother, from his bookbag and shot his teacher, Abigail Zwerner.
The fire broke out around 1 am at the Salaama School for the Blind in Mukono, about 30 km east of the capital Kampala, and the cause is so far unknown.
The classes were set to resume on Wednesday, but just hours into the first day, the education ministry announced a shock policy reversal, drawing international outrage.
In all, thirty-four of the 121 kidnapped children are now free since five others had escaped earlier and another was released on health grounds, according to a school official.
Sexual abuse and harassment has become frequent in British schools and colleges, according to an Ofsted survey of 900 young students from 32 education institutions.
The school apologised after two dozen protestors, mainly men, gathered outside Batley Grammar School after a teacher showed a class caricatures of Prophet Muhammed seen as anti-Islam and defamatory by Muslims around the world.
An armed group with AK-47s, stormed the Government Science secondary school in Kankara district which led to a shootout between the gunmen and security forces.
"The number of cases and deaths have reached a serious level, starting with Istanbul, so we need to be more careful," President Erdogan says while announcing the new weekend curfew.
Fatih Kucuk, chosen to the Sabanci Foundation’s Changemakers Programme, has been running cartooning workshops in Antalya’s Kas resort since 2016, and plans to set up another school in Cappadocia soon.
The school bus cannot come to the neighbourhood where Yakup Engin lives, leaving him and his kids no other choice but to walk six kilometres every day on foot in extreme cold.
Instead of Palestinian Bedouin children at one school in the occupied West Bank playing during their summer holidays, they're trying to save their school from destruction by the Israeli government.
The Parkland school shooting that killed 17 students and staff last month has revitalised the debate over gun ownership across the US.
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