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Loved ones reunite after a gunman killed two schoolchildren and injured 17 other people in Minneapolis on Aug 27..
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US shooter kills two schoolchildren, injures 17
Two children were killed and 17 other people were wounded on Aug 27 at a Minneapolis Catholic school when a shooter dressed in black opened fire on students attending Mass on the third day of school, authorities said.
The assailant fired through the windows at students sitting in pews and entering the church and then killed himself, officials said. Two students, eight years old and 10 years old, were pronounced dead at the scene, they said.
“This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshiping. The sheer cruelty and cowardice of firing into a church full of children is absolutely incomprehensible,” Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told reporters.
The shooting was one of the first signs that the epidemic of gun violence at US schools in recent years has not abated as the fall semester opens.
NGO head says UN Gaza children too weak to cry
The head of Save the Children described in horrific detail on Aug 27 the slow agony of starving children in Gaza, saying they are so weak they do not cry.
Addressing a UN Security Council meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the president of the international charity, Ms Inger Ashing, said famine – declared by the UN last week to be happening in Gaza – is not just a dry technical term.
“When there is not enough food, children become acutely malnourished, and then they die slowly and painfully. This, in simple terms, is what famine is,” said Ms Ashing.
Leaders vow Moldova support in face of Russia
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The leaders of France, Germany and Poland all expressed their support for Moldova’s EU bid on Aug 27, slamming Russian “lies” and “hybrid attacks” during a symbolic visit to the former Soviet republic bordering Ukraine.
The visit comes a day before campaigning starts for September’s tense parliamentary election amid claims of Russian interference in the pro-EU nation.
French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk met Moldova’s President Maia Sandu to celebrate the country’s 34th independence day as she pushes for EU membership.
Nazi-looted masterwork spotted in property ad
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A 17th century masterwork allegedly stolen by the Nazis from a Dutch Jewish art collector re-emerged this week in pictures of a house for sale in Argentina, only to disappear again.
The painting, believed to be “Portrait of a Lady” by Italian baroque portraitist Giuseppe Ghislandi (1655-1743) was identified by the Dutch newspaper AD in a picture of a house for sale in the seaside resort of Mar del Plata.
The authenticity of the painting cannot be proven until it is recovered but it is believed to have been stolen from Amsterdam art dealer Jacques Goudstikker during World War II.
‘Jaw-droppingly weird’ spiky dinosaur discovered
Around 165 million years ago on a coastal floodplain in what is now Morocco lived one of the most extreme dinosaurs on record, lavishly adorned with armour and spikes - some about 1m long - unlike that of any other known creature.
Researchers on Aug 27 described extensive fossilised remains discovered in the Atlas Mountains near the Moroccan town of Boulemane of a Jurassic Period dinosaur named Spicomellus.
Roughly 4m long and weighing perhaps one to two tonnes, Spicomellus is the oldest-known member of a group of tank-like armoured dinosaurs called ankylosaurs, squat and slow-moving plant-eaters that walked on four legs.
