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Teacher in UK School Fears for Life Amid Uproar Over Prophet Cartoon – Reports

Posted on March 30, 2021March 30, 2021By Editor

A religious education teacher at a grammar school in England has been afraid of appearing in public after showing his students a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad, his father told media on Monday. … Read More >Teacher in UK School Fears for Life Amid Uproar Over Prophet Cartoon – Reports

Children’s safety comes first: Israeli court defends right of school to bar unvaccinated, untested staff

Posted on March 22, 2021March 22, 2021By Editor

In a landmark precedent, an Israeli court has rejected a bid by a teacher’s aide who was looking to overturn a local council’s decision to bar her from work over her unwillingness to be vaccinated or tested for Covid-19. … Read More >Children’s safety comes first: Israeli court defends right of school to bar unvaccinated, untested staff

World

Gunmen abduct 30 students in Nigeria, police confirm, in ongoing spate of kidnappings

Posted on March 13, 2021March 13, 2021By Editor

Nigerian police have said that 30 students remain unaccounted for after gunmen targeted a technical college in the northwest of the country late Thursday night, as the shocking trend of student kidnapping continues. … Read More >Gunmen abduct 30 students in Nigeria, police confirm, in ongoing spate of kidnappings

EU

French teen with knife arrested after saying he wanted to kill teacher – media

Posted on March 13, 2021March 13, 2021By Editor

A teenager with a knife was arrested in the French city of Metz after he declared that he wanted to kill a teacher, local media reported. … Read More >French teen with knife arrested after saying he wanted to kill teacher – media

EU

Beheaded over a LIE? French teen whose story of schoolteacher & Prophet Mohammed cartoons led to his murder wasn’t even in class

Posted on March 11, 2021March 11, 2021By Editor

The schoolgirl who claimed a teacher asked Muslim students to leave the lesson before displaying obscene caricatures of Prophet Mohammed as part of his freedom-of-speech class lied about being there to avoid parental punishment. … Read More >Beheaded over a LIE? French teen whose story of schoolteacher & Prophet Mohammed cartoons led to his murder wasn’t even in class

EU

Italy shuts all schools in Covid-19 hotspots, toughens travel rules until after Easter amid spread of variants

Posted on March 5, 2021March 5, 2021By Editor

The Italian government has ordered all schools to close in the areas with the highest Covid-19 infection rates as part of a series of new measures set to last until after Easter amid the threat of more contagious viral variants. … Read More >Italy shuts all schools in Covid-19 hotspots, toughens travel rules until after Easter amid spread of variants

World

All kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls released by gunmen in Zamfara state

Posted on March 3, 2021March 3, 2021By Editor

The governor of Zamfara state has said that all 279 girls who were abducted from the Government Girls’ Science Secondary School (GGSS) in Jangebe last Friday have been released by their captors, largely unharmed. … Read More >All kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls released by gunmen in Zamfara state

World

Gunmen kidnap 317 schoolgirls in northwest Nigeria, police confirm, the 2nd major raid in as many weeks

Posted on March 1, 2021March 1, 2021By Editor

Police in Nigeria’s Zamfara State have said that 317 schoolgirls were abducted in an armed raid on Friday morning, just one week after 42 people were kidnapped from a boys’ school in neighboring Niger State last week. … Read More >Gunmen kidnap 317 schoolgirls in northwest Nigeria, police confirm, the 2nd major raid in as many weeks

USA

What about student loans, water or the homeless? Outrage follows report $1.7 trillion F-35 program is now considered a failure

Posted on February 25, 2021February 25, 2021By Editor

A tacit admission by the US Air Force that the F-35 has failed its main mission has triggered an outpouring of outrage from Americans who think the stealth fighter’s gargantuan budget could have been better spent on other things. … Read More >What about student loans, water or the homeless? Outrage follows report $1.7 trillion F-35 program is now considered a failure

EU

‘Stop putting ideology on our children’s plates,’ French minister says after major city removes meat from school lunches

Posted on February 23, 2021February 23, 2021By Editor

French Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie has argued against injecting “ideology” into school lunches after the city of Lyon removed meat from the menus. Local officials said it would help them follow Covid-19 protocols. … Read More >‘Stop putting ideology on our children’s plates,’ French minister says after major city removes meat from school lunches