Headlines- Sheik Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, will visit Tehran on Thursday and meet with several Iranian officials to discuss ways to de-escalate tensions.
- According to a notice on a Treasury Department website, the US has imposed sanctions on the Palestine Action group and designated it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
- A huge flash flood in Nepal ravaged villages, killing at least 160 people and leaving hundreds more missing for.
- At least one person was killed and over a dozen people were injured on Wednesday when a person crashed a car into a crowd in the northwest French city of Caen.
- Wildfires that sweft through several Algerian provinces claimed the lives of twelve people..
Tag: Youth Crime
Mental Health, Juvenile Delinquency and Youth...
During the past decade, crime scheme keeps increasing in a geometric rate within the academic milieu, students as well as teachers are been victimized. This social exacerbation or adolescent misconduct is related but not limited to: illicit drugs smuggling and substance abuse, weapons brought to school, bullying, non-respect of educational norms, and challenging school authorities (Masitsa, 2008: 236 – 237). For example, the knife carrying culture in the United Kingdom, of adolescent delinquents has caused more injuries and deaths than gunshot incidents (2008: 39). Where as in South Korea, youths are engaged in cigarette smoking, alcohol abuse, linking it to the new economic cancer ‘cyber-crime’, which pose a serious challenge to the deeply conservative nation (Kim & Kim, 2008: 1– 15).